Today we drove to Melbourne from Lakes Entrance, by now thoroughly fed up with the appalling choice of radio stations on offer in the car.

On the way we stopped at a bakery where I had the nicest vegetarian pasty I have eaten in Australia. It was so good I could have happily eaten three but the new, slightly more streamlined Steph managed to resist!

We found Bernie's place easily enough and arrived mid afternoon. In the traditional Whitcroft manner it wasn't long before we had our first drink in hand. After a brief chill out period, Bernie and Natalie took us on a tour of some of their favourite drinking establishments in St Kilda. All were very nice and quite funky. One was called Mothers milk which made me slightly squeamish-what an odd name for a pub!! The pub crawl was along chapel street.