Keith and I flew into Melbourne on Friday afternoon and Louise arrived at 10.00pm (our time), unfortunately she wasn't re-united with her luggage until late Saturday afternoon. It is great to have her join us for this part of the trip. The Sebel Hotel where we are staying used to be the head office of the Bank of Australasia, the restaraunt where they serve breakfast was the banking hall. There are some lovely old buildings in Melbourne but not the famous lan...

We flew into Melbourne from Sydney on Friday morning for the Grand Prix weekend. The flight took about and hour and a quarter. We dropped our bags off at the hotel, which wasn't up to our usual standard, and then headed off to the track to watch the practice session. We have really good seats beside the start/finish line and accoss from the pits. There was F3, Porsche, Utes and a BMW celebrity race as well as F1. On Saturday it was more of the same but with ...