The City of Lights!

That's right, we are in the city of lights!
...Ok. No, we are not in Paris, but Melbourne gets pretty lighty once the sun goes down!
Our jouney didn't start off very well.
First, we have a 10 hour train journey. I can handle this, Australia is a big country and so travelling across it will take a while, but the night before we're off, disaster strikes! (For those males who struggle with the womanly neccessities you might not want to read this next section)
For the first time, in about two months, my period starts!!!
So, I'm on a train for 10 hours, with cronic period pains, continuously having to visit the toilet (which smells awful iffy!) and in the worst mood ever! We finally get to Melbourne station, and decide to get a taxi considering we have huge backpacks and have no idea where we're going.
The taxi driver took us to the wrong park street! What stupid city has two streets with the same name! So even after paying 10 dollers we get to walk around the city for about an hour. At least we bumped into some nice locals who led us bascaly to our hostel's front door.
Then we enter St Arnauds.
From outside it looks clean and fresh but pretty standard. White walls with blue trimming, the sign in blue and a font I'm pretty sure I've seen on "word" before. But inside it's something else!
There's a gramaphone in one corner, an old fasioned spindel (think sleeping beauty style), with chandeliers and an old fasioned cabinet full of bits and bobs. We go upstairs, and to the right as the stairs splt and then back on ourselves to our dorm room. There's 6 beds all in all, two of them are already occupied by german girls, who are very lovely. Another girl comes in. She's very friendly, and it turns out she's from London. We get talking and it turns out all the other people in our room are in their 20s, and most of them speak 3 languages! Feeling like very amateur travellers at this point!
We're now sat with a load of very load 20 something year olds, and a box of red wine. I've just glanced up and there's a cat, sat in the middle of the room. I swear it wasn't there before!!! Bring on the travellers life style!
(just incase there's any horrendous spelling mistakes or any sentences that make NO sense, I'd like to point out that I have had about three glasses of red wine. So bare with me!)
I'll blog soon! :)
(i've just realised I haven't talked about the lights at all, which was the whole aim of my blogging, but I'll get to that tomorrow night or something!)
Beth
xxx