Day 19 - Burning Bush After another quick goodbye to Gilly early on Saturday morning (she was just on her way out for a run), we headed for the road, on a definite inland route towards the east coast. The trip was to be approx 1200km, across Victoria and across New South Wales. We had the test match on the radio and ate up the km's. A quick stop at Ballarat to get supplies from a cute bakery and then woolworths. We stocked up with food for the BBQ that we were ...

Day 18 - The 12 (actually 11) Apostles Being situated on a square of grass in the furthest corner of the travellers site we were fortunate enough to back onto a slow flowing river. This meant rather then Parakeets and Kookaburras waking us up, it was a pair of very keen wetsuit clad Paddleboarders and our bladders. We left promptly and went for brekkie at Naughtigals (seemed appropriate). Good scran. We then headed for the 12 Apostles. Research told us there w...

Day 17 - Journey from Hell! Woke up early on Boxing Day with the next part of our adventure in mind. Gilly popped in to walk us to the tram stop and bid us a good and safe rest of the trip. If only the rest of the morning had gone so smoothly. We knew we needed several tram changes to get to Britz for the next camper, but we didn't quite estimate how arduous a task this would be. Skip to blog 18 if you don't want to endure what we went through. We got on the ...

Day 16 - Christmas Day!!! First stop Christmas Day, McDonald's! Clarkey had promised to skype traditional Christmas Eve dinner in Needingworth. She wasn't the only one, there must have been half a dozen other Europeans at McDonald's at 8.30am on Christmas Day, skyping or face timing home. Second stop. Gather the troops, Holly, Gilly and Glen and head down to a quieter bit of beach towards Brighton. Gilly's morning run (!!) had identified a good spot to park the...

Day 15 - A trip to Brighton! We've been in Melbourne, more specifically St Kilda, for several days now but had yet to venture eastwards along the seemingly endless beach and coastal path. Today was that day! We prepared well by sampling some more cake for breakfast before setting off. We stuck to the walkway that hugs the coast and wondered for a good couple of k around the 'point' towards Brighton. So many places are named after British towns and cities, it wo...