After breakfast today, we headed into Mansfield and visited the information centre to pick up a map of the area, then parked up at the library so we could use the wifi to get online. However, when we arrived we found that it was closed on Mondays (?) We'd walked past an internet café a few days ago so headed there…also closed on Mondays! We decided that we obviously weren't meant to go online today, so we'll go back to the library tomorrow. After a quick stop...

After a lie-in today, we headed just out of Mansfield to the local Zoo. We were a bit confused when we first arrived - the 'zoo' appeared to be just a house with a wildlife park sign stuck on the front! When we went in, we were told that we could feed lots of the animals there, so we bought 2 buckets of feed for our wander around. Then we had to walk though the living room of the house, where the family's bored looking son sat playing on his Xbox, to get to the a...

Dave had to cancel his morning swim in the lake today, as we woke up to rain and grey skies. We had a lazy morning; got up late and sat watching TV for a while before heading into Mansfield to explore some more. We parked up and walked up the main street, stopping to browse in some shops. We'd noticed on the map that there were Botanic Gardens, but when we got there found it was more of a park, nothing much 'botanic' about it. We looked around for an internet ca...

An early start for us today as we're moving on to our second week of timeshare with Ray and Maria. We set off after breakfast, heading inland. A couple of hours into the journey, we stopped in a one-horse-town for a drink, kit-kat and toilet break, then kept going all the way to Mansfield, best described as a large 'small' town! We were too early to check in to the resort, so we stopped in the town for lunch - delicious huge burgers for me and Ray and chips that...

As today was our last day in Torquay, and as it was a hot and sunny day, we decided to go to the beach and have a swim in the Ocean. On the way, we drove to Bells Beach which is the famous surfing beach in Torquay where competitions are held. We parked in the car park at the top of the cliff and looked down at the surfers in the Ocean. In the car park there was a Backpacker Breezer van, so Mam and Dad had a closer look at the van we lived in for 3 months! We the...