So drove back to Frankston with Mary and Baratt after the concert. They have a lovely house (pool, sauana!) and are not too far from the centre where all the shops etc are. The first day I spent with them consisted mainly of eating and shopping, meeting with their oldest son Jonathan in the evening for dinner, as it was too windy during the day to do anything else! The day after that the weather improved enough for me to spend the day in a shopping mall! Went t...

Next stop after Canberra was Jindabyne, in the Snowy Mountain National Park-known best for its skiing. As it was too expemsive to do that just for a day we went horse riding instead. Had some mad horses and great guides, so a good day overall-rode through some beautiful countryside, stunning views of snow capped mountains with kangaroos bounding around everywhere. We even got to try some at the end of the ride-kind of like beef really! We then made the mistake o...

The Great Ocean Road-technically from Portland to Torquay-we stopped at Port Fairy for the night (after driving until 4am from Adelaide) which is about an hour from the start. It's a famous road that we were told to drive back to Melbourne on as it was very pretty-and is the home of the Twelve Apostles (actually only 9 or so now). So we did it, not much more to be said-the coastline was pretty and it made a change to be driving in the sun seeing something rather...

Finally made it to Melbourn, actually earlier than we had thought. Had a call from an old friend of my mums who lives over here. She said we could stay with her and her daughter when we got here which was great of them. So the first night we met her daughter, Heidi, and got to stay on her boyfriends farm-very rustic but fun and cosy...sitting by an open fire in a barn drinking vodka was a very nice change to being on the road until we got to tired to drive. We we...

The Yarra valley-another famous wine region of Australia-best known for the house of Chandon (domain Chandon) the sister company of Moet Chandon-the Dutch/ French company that does posh sparkling wine! We had a tour around the winery-looking at the season itslef, when they pick the grapes, where they harvest them from, and how long it takes to make a vintage wine. The vintage wines (vintage meaning the grapes used from that year) take around 3 months from beginn...