Melbourne is a beautiful city with both a lovely river and an ocean port. The city has a real euro feel complete with electric trams running all over, large central green parks and beautiful historic buildings. The city is buzzing with the Australian Open underway which has drawn crowds from all over the world. Melbourne has many outstanding restaurants that favour local produce, meats and fish. We spent some time today at the Victoria market where you can buy an...

The Australian Open is the first Grand Slam of the tennis season. Melbourne Park is a superb venue for this event. The Australian crowds are very reserved but supportive of their favourite players. Melbourne Park is very well organized and can easily handle the crowds that come to watch two weeks of tennis every January. Today we attended the day session at Rod Laver which is the largest of the arenas. The day started with ladies quarter finals and we saw Li N...

We left Adelaide and headed west via car towards the Grampions. As we drove. The temperature climbed, we travelled thru farmland either grain farms or sheep ranches. The land was very dry and the temperature kept climbing. By early afternoon the temperature was 44c with a very strong wind. When we got out of the car to buy gas or stop for lunch the heat was oppressive. We drove thru the Grampion National Park which contains three mountain ranges with peaks rangin...