Great Aussie Roads 2 After passing through Melbourne we stopped for the night at Walhalla, a place chosen because it promised to be in the hills and had a free camp site. It was a brilliant find, a quirky old gold rush town in a steep, wooded valley. We had more stove problems but luckily the fire extinguisher was very effective. A storm raged as we ate tea but then cleared to leave a fiery sunset and strange marshmallow like clouds, after an unrelaxing evening ...

Great Aussie Roads We set off from Melbourne on a Monday having picked up our new Campervan - Chubby 'Sandy' Sandman (no we don't name them, they come like that). Sandy is a 2.4ltr Mitsubishi van with a small 'kitchen' at the back and bench seats that convert to a double bed in the back. To be honest, we have only once used the bench seat configuration and it was a right faff and Josh was too tall to be comfortable! We battled out of Melbourne which is a chao...

F1 blog. An international Grand Prix was something we factored into our trip very early on. In fact, large chunks of the trip were fitted snuggly around being in Melbourne for a certain weekend. Obviously, we were extremely excited, but as it was the start of the season there was a huge amount of unknown surrounding the weekend. Who would be quick, which cars would look the best and would Anna get over the fact that Schumi wasn't going to be there this year? Un...

This is just about Melbourne, not the F1, which will be a separate blog. Our apologies for not writing sooner, we have both been very tired in the evenings and have not felt very motivated to write because of busy, action-packed days. The train from Melbourne was very relaxing and enjoyable. We had an early start to get to the station but from there on it was very easy going. The passengers were mostly either elderly or backpackers and the seats were comfy wit...