(Part of a series of articles by Fi trawling the archives for photos taken on the tiny compact camera way back when).

With a few days spare either side of our Great Ocean Road trip, Melbourne acted as the perfect base to catch up with friends old & new. We celebrated Gillys birthday with a fair few cocktails a spot of burlesque and some gaming at the Mana bar. Celebrated our Vietnamese reunion with Katie, Anthony, Dizzy & Bex.  Had a couple of wonderful meet-ups with Karen & Julian where we were spoiled by the loveable Yorkshire pair, met Zebras, drank tequilas and reminisced of old blighty & old friends (thanks for Mr Bobble – he has been keeping my swede super toasty!).  Then finally, just as we were about to leave we managed to spend some quality time with Katie & Anthony who had kindly let us crash in their swanky pad throughout!

The skies were grey but our hearts warm 😛 See Paul’s recent blog for more info here but for now here are some snaps from our time in Mellyboo.