Days out in Victoria - Sunday 20th September – Sunday 27th September Sunday 20th The first day with the car and we didn’t go very far just outside well 30km from the flat in the dandenongs to the town of Emerald to catch the puffing billy railway. Its an old fashioned steam train and with open side windows and you sit on there if you like, it winds its way through the hills and flowery meadows to lakeside. We had an hour looking around before we were back...

Melbourne September On Saturday 5th September we headed out for dinner with the 4 main girls to a Asian restaurant called chin chins at koto moon. The food was great especially the dim sims, the conversation wasn’t bad either and we had a few glasses of wine. Then on Sunday we went to the Melbourne museum with Mary and Marika It was really cool they had loads of dinosaur skeletons, phar lap the famous race horse who died of mysterious circumstances when he was...

Melbourne August 2009 So back to Melbourne and back to work but not for much longer the count down has begun to our leaving date of November 27th when where off on a mammoth 10’000km road trip. So the first weekend in August (Friday 7th) found us at the cinema watching public enemies the new Johnny Depp film which was awesome, followed by outlet shopping on the Saturday at the DFO in Essendon (kind of like Cheshire oaks). Wolfie got a pair of quicksilver jea...

Tasmanian Adventure Part One Saturday 18th July – Saturday 25th July Saturday 18th Was an early start on the first day of our long awaited trip to the Australian state of Tasmania! The alarm clock went off at 0530am and we slowly got ourselves together before getting our bags together and headed off to flag a taxi down. It took a little while and we eventually got one the guy was an absolute numpty hadn’t a clue how to drive sat across the lanes on St Ki...

Tasmanian Adventure Part 2 Saturday 25th July – Sunday 2nd August After leaving the holiday park we set off for a little early morning wine tasting, first up was ninth island which was very nice although the were a little big tight on the amount of wine they poured for tasting, but they had a nice chardonnay so we bought a bottle. After finding the next place shut we went to another winery call Rosevears were the tasting was good and the wines amazing. We bou...