We both felt like we were going on holiday today. We were catching the ferry this evening to Tasmania where we're going to stay for three weeks. It's a holiday within a holiday. We checked out at 10 and left the arrogant Germans behind (for now anyhow) and we drove into Melbourne. The ferry doesn't leave until 7.30 and we can't check in until 5. We had decided to park just a short stroll from the city centre near Albert Park. We thought that it would be an easy p...

We were both very excited to be going into Melbourne and after breakfast we walked down to the tram stop in Coburg which took about 15 minutes. The girl on reception at the camp site had explained the new ticketing system on Melbourne's transport network to me yesterday. They had introduced a new cashless ticketing system, Myki, at the beginning of this year. You could no longer pay cash on the trams and you had to purchase a Myki card for $6 from a shop and get ...

The camper van was booked in for it's second service today. I had booked it into K-Mart Tyre & Auto Services in Geelong. It was literally two minutes from the camp site and we took it there at 10. The guy at K-Mart said it would be ready at around 2-3pm but he'd try earlier if he could. Without the camper we were homeless for a few hours. We decided to go for a mooch around. We wandered over to the Barwon River first and had a walk along the riverbank and thr...

We had a brilliant view for breakfast today by the river. This had been one of the best places we've stayed up until now. Just as we were leaving our neighbour (the guy who I'd asked for directions yesterday) came over to talk. He was originally from the UK but came to Australia in the 60's. He's never been back to the UK, very sensible chap. He talked to us about loads of things including Tasmania, his life story and Toyota campervans but not in a boring way. He...

We went for showers when we got up and Jay had problems. There were only three shower cubicles in the ladies and when Jay got there one was being used. The other two had just been nabbed by the Germans in a similar way that they hog the sun loungers next to hotel swimming pools. They had put their towels, shampoo etc in the cubicles and then gone for a ****. Jay saw them doing this just as she walked in. She then had to wait. The lady who was already having a sho...