Thursday 3 May 2012 This weekend we went to Brisbane to visit my brother James. He's just bought himself a unit so we thought we should check it out. On Sunday he turns 50 so it's good that it coincides with our visit. We caught a plane at 8pm from Melbourne and flew into Brisbane around 10.20 that same night. Mum wanted to come up for James birthday seeing as it was a special one and had caught an earlier flight and was waiting for us to arrive so we could a...

We headed to Phillip Island this weekend which is about 140 kilometres South East of Melbourne and is the home of the world famous Penguin Parade and the Australian MotoGP events. We left home at around 7am…..(it'll take approximately 3 hours to get to the island) and it looks like it will be a beautiful day. The island has an area of about 10,000 hectares, and the landscape is slightly undulating with the highest point being Cape Woolamai at 109 metres above...

On Friday we left for Point Lonsdale which is a coastal township on the Bellarine Peninsula, not far from Geelong, for the weekend. A friend of Craig's has a holiday house there which they very kindly offered us for the weekend. It is a beautiful house - 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms - l tell you, this holiday house is bigger than our house! We arrived at about 8pm after stopping in Geelong to grab some dinner. We got up about 7.30am on Saturday and after breakfast we...

Mildura is our first weekend destination. We left Bendigo around 5pm on Thursday and arrived in Mildura at 9ish. I had made egg and bacon sandwiches late in the afternoon so we could stop beside the road and have them for tea as l didn't think there'd be much choice of eating places along the way...and l was right! We are staying in the Mildura Quest apartments which are really lovely. It has a seperate bedroom, dining and living area. Mildura is located in the...