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 lo...

Well, after about 7 hours of driving (with a brief stop for lunch in Eden - which has very little correlation with the biblical reference) we arrived in Lakes Entrance. From the outset it looked nice. The sun was shining and after popping into three different places we went for the room with the self catering option... I personally thought this was an unnecessary extra however, after finding that the vegetarian options were very limited ( and the only Italian pla...