When good neighbours become good friends...

We've been in Melbourne for just under a week now, and are planning on leaving in a couple of days to start making our way around to sydney.

Melbourne's a really nice town, with quite an American feel to it with a grid layout and loads of trams whizzing by. We have generally been doing the tourist thing, visiting the museums, the parks, parliament and of course, no trip to Melbourne would be complete with out a trip to the home of entertainment... Ramsay St on 'The official Neighbours tour'.



The Neighbours tour was just what you would expect... cheesy as hell! But a great laugh. We were picked up by the Neighbours bus, so straight away everyone in the city knew we had no shame. As we drove out of Melbourne we watched music videos by ex-neighbours cast such as Holly Valance, good old Kylie, jason, Stephan Dennis and not forgetting that old Craig (aka Henry Ramsay) classic, 'Hey Mona'.



Our first stop was Erinsborough High (aka Blackburn School), which was bascially a normal school which our tour guide hung the studio prop sign on, for our cheesy photos. We then got a call to say that we were allowed to visit the studio on our way round to Ramsay Street. The studio was tiny and in the middle of an average residental area. As we pulled into the open set of Grease Monkeys and Lou's Garage, Dr Karl Kennedy (Alan Fletcher), suddenly jumped on board to welcome us. He was absolutely brilliant and a really nice guy. His band is soon touring around Britain, so you guys should check him out!



Our last stop for the day was Ramsay Street itself, which in reality is absolutely tiny. When we arrived they were filming, but there were no actors on site. This actually worked in our favour as we were able to walk upto the houses and watch the crews at workl at the same time, it was great. We also got to hear about the future storylines which sound absolutely ridiculous beyond believe, but that's the Neighbours we all love!