Port Fairy July 6 - 8 2012 Port Fairy is a charming fishing village at the end of the Great Ocean Road. Wide streets are lined by nineteenth century cottages, great Norfolk Pines, old stone churches, boarding houses and inns. Much of the 1800's architecture remains intact and more than 50 buildings are classified by the National Trust. They have been advertising a winter weekend escape over the next two weekends so l decided we should drive down and have a...

We headed to Phillip Island this weekend which is about 140 kilometres South East of Melbourne and is the home of the world famous Penguin Parade and the Australian MotoGP events. We left home at around 7am…..(it'll take approximately 3 hours to get to the island) and it looks like it will be a beautiful day. The island has an area of about 10,000 hectares, and the landscape is slightly undulating with the highest point being Cape Woolamai at 109 metres above...

On Friday we left for Point Lonsdale which is a coastal township on the Bellarine Peninsula, not far from Geelong, for the weekend. A friend of Craig's has a holiday house there which they very kindly offered us for the weekend. It is a beautiful house - 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms - l tell you, this holiday house is bigger than our house! We arrived at about 8pm after stopping in Geelong to grab some dinner. We got up about 7.30am on Saturday and after breakfast we...

Mildura is our first weekend destination. We left Bendigo around 5pm on Thursday and arrived in Mildura at 9ish. I had made egg and bacon sandwiches late in the afternoon so we could stop beside the road and have them for tea as l didn't think there'd be much choice of eating places along the way...and l was right! We are staying in the Mildura Quest apartments which are really lovely. It has a seperate bedroom, dining and living area. Mildura is located in the...