Neighbours, everybody needs good Neighbours...

Swag and Mac arrived in Melbourne on Sunday. We went to the Meet Your Neighbour night at the Elephant and Wheelbarrow in St Kilda on Monday night and it was possibly the best night ever. The three stars there were Eliza Taylor-Cotter who plays Janae Timmons, Stephen Lovatt who plays Max Hoyland and Stephan "The Legend" Dennis who plays Paul Robinson.

By the end of the night we were in some nick but even at the start when we were relatively sober we were by far the loudest, rowdiest people there. Me and Swag outsang everybody else when we were all told that the stars weren't coming out until we'd sang the Neighbours theme.

One of the highlights of the night was when Craig volunteered for a competition, not knowing exactly what he was volunteering for and then found out he had to sing in front of the whole bar. He wasn't so enthusiastic when he found out what he had to do but he carried on and murdered Flower of Scotland to more than a few boos. I got a video of the whole thing on his camera. It's genius.

The night just had a fantastic atmosphere. Everybody was there to have a laugh and a good time. It didn't hurt that the girl to guy ratio was easily at least 10:1.

Anyway, we'd booked up to do the Neighbours Tour the next morning at 9am, not the best idea in hindsight. We only got a few hours sleep and turned up somewhere between hungover and half cut. Mac in particular was not feeling at his best and at one point got off the bus to have a tactical chunder. He told the bus driver he was travel sick but everybody else knew better.

We got to Ramsay Street, or Pin Oak Court as it is known in real life, and took a bit of a wander and more than a few photos. It's tiny in real life. It looks so much bigger on TV. After that, we drove past the studios where it's all filmed and had a quick stop at Blackburn English Language School the school used as Erinsborough High.

After that we got talking to another group of hungover Scottish people that had been at the Neighbours night the night before too. One of the girls was from Polmont. I'd actually been speaking to another of the girls the previous night when I saw her crying on the street. She'd lost her handbag and phone and couldn't find her friends. I'd let her use my phone to see if she could find her friends. She didn't remember much of this when I explained it to her the next day and was a bit devastated to hear it all. For all you who are wondering, yes, she found her bag.