well we left the threlfalls on wednesday morning, they had to tidy up their rented house in readiness for leaving on thursday. We set off on the long drive around lake alexandrina to get on the road south to melbourne. We passed through some big wine growing areas and availed ourselves of the various wine tastings that were on offer. Nothing stood out so no wine was purchased. After this it is a long and fairly boring drive through endless scrub land. we hard...

Hi everybody - apologies for the delay in starting the blog but there have been technical problems. Mainly about uploading photos. Anyway our tour started with a change of plan when we realised the train that we had booked from Leeds to Manchester Airport would get us to the airport 5 hours early - Mytton planning!!!- caused by J's inability to understand the 24 hour clock!!!! So Kat kindly offered to take us in the car. Everything went smoothly down to Heath...