Melbourne was just hit by the most ferocious of storms that I have ever seen here. For around 15 minutes ferocious gusts of wind and heavy rain and hail bucketed down over Melbourne with some of the hail stones the size golf balls. People on the streets were frantically running for cover as small tree branches and leaves were seemingly falling from the sky. The State Emergency Service (SES) is going to have a busy night tonight.

Below is a photo of Dudley St on the edge of Melbourne’s CBD just after the aftermath of storm.

It’s already March 2010 and it’s definitely been way too long since my last post. Since coming back to Melbourne from London late October last year I’ve been so busy getting my life back on track and haven’t had much time to blog.

I’ve got some time now so I thought I’d start the New Year (a couple of months late I know haha) with some posts. On the way home from London to Melbourne my girlfriend and I stopped over in New York, LA and Las Vegas. For the sake of keeping the size of this post sane I’ll be writing up a separate post for each city.

Anyways, to kick things off here’s a photo of a globe that I took in the old immigration centre on Ellis Island, New York/New Jersey. I thought it would be a good idea to point out my current location just in case anyone doesn’t know where Melbourne is.

I was walking through Westferry Circus Gardens today in Canary Wharf and saw this little squirrel scavenging for food in the trash bin and hopping around as squirrels do. I snapped away with my camera trying to get a few decent shots in which is never easy with squirrels since they rarely stay still for long.

We don’t have squirrels in Australia, just possums so I always get a little excited whenever I see them in the parks around London. They’re such cute little creatures.

I woke up this morning to see a beautiful light covering of snow in Willesden, the area in London where I currently live. Because it was so cold, minus 4 degrees Celsius to be exact, light snow feel instead of the usual misty rain that we usually get.

It doesn’t snow that often here so I just had to go out and take some photos. The snow fell ever so lightly, very beautiful indeed. Here’s a photo of my street where you can see the light covering of snow on the road and parked cars.

It’s been a little over 12 months since I got back from my year living in Saigon and now it’s time to head off again. This time it’s across to the other side of the world to London. I’ll be travelling with my girlfriend Xuan and we’ll be basing ourselves there for a year long working holiday. Our flight leaves tomorrow night for Singapore. We’ll be spending a few days in Saigon and Singapore before making our way to London. It’s going to be so much fun!

I’ll leave with a photo I took today of the Melbourne city skyline which was taken from Skyline Drive in Maribyrnong, a suburb in Melbourne’s inner west.