PUFFING ALONG THE DANDENONGS!! After the great Ocean road we spent a few days with Rays old school mate from Copnor, Mike Spiteri and his wife and five kids. Mikes dad was in the Australian Navy and the family immigrated when Mike was thirteen. Apart from an unexpected knock on the door, out of the blue visit a few years ago they havent seen each other since 1982. It was lovely; we were taken to a school art/fashion show starring Mikes daughters and rode ...

KANGERS, KOOKABURRA'S, KOALA'S, KRAZY KURT, KINKY KEVIN KISSING KAREN AND A KOLOURFUL KAMPERVAN,.... We landed at Melbourne Tullamarine airport at about 5.30pm on Tuesday 30th October and as soon as we got out of the airport a wall of heat hit us. This was the Australia I was expecting. Serious sunshine, beautiful...sadly though it wasn't to last and the next day as we explored the sights and sounds of Melbourne it was as cold and windy as it had been on t...