Punt Hill Knox Melbourne

... flight...thanks Dad and Joanne.Love you:)
Eschers highlight of this part of the trip?? Grandpas wheelies! LOL...I kid you not!
Everytime we went around a corner or roundabout, the car would squeal, like a boyracer, which had Escher whooping with joy and clapping in appreciation!
''Do it Again" Dad, you totally need to get your car pimped and you will be one MEAN racer! :P
Melbourne airport and we found ...

... day not bad, another tick in the box. The news is full of both of them Tiger for the amount of money he's been paid to turn up and play a tournament here in Melbourne, an estimated $3 million just for getting off the plane which is not bad work if you can get it and Britney is the papers as on her amazing sold out tour she doesn't actually sing a note she just lip sinks the whole show not ...

... fuer mich war es ein Minenfeld. *lol* Ich LIEBE gutes Essen, aber das Essen liebt anscheinend nicht mich, weil ich (wie schon mal angemerkt) echt kein Haendchen dafuer hab, das richtige Lokal und dann auch noch das richtige Essen auszuwaehlen. Ein aktuelles Beispiel von der Front: Ich war auf einer typischen Melbourne Lokalmeile (das Ganze hat sehr vielversprechend ausgesehen) und bin bei einem Lokal haengengeblieben, die Crêpes auf der Karte hatten. Sehr gut, dacht ich ...

... hut to tackle with, they have just moved into their first apartment in a really lovely part of Melbourne called Kensington. Andrea who is completely over her non existent jet lag anyway is keen to get doing some activities straight up and lou and toby to show off the state of Victoria! So my first impression's of Oz, well more Melbourne is that it looks like a mix of some parts of England, wide road avenues, lots of trees and green, definate notting hill ...

Arriving in Melbourne we were greeted
by the freezing cold and pouring rain, seeing our breather for the
first time in months. We sat in Hungry Jacks as we tried to find out
where our car hire place was. Only to find that it was about a 30 km
drive away. Grabbing a taxi, we headed to collect our car at the
address provided to us, only when we get there, we find that it is is
the wrong address ( only 2 offices down ...

... large truck and hoped for the best. We made it to our hotel late with fair warning not to travel at night on the roads unless you have a steel roo grill! In Mt. Gambier we way sinkholes, caused by previous volcanic eruptions, and some very neat stuff. We took in the Narracorte Caves north of the city and it was much better than the cave on Kangaroo Island. Four different caves gave us a very great perspective on dry caves. Wet caves are ...

... of the forest after burning. We returned to Launceston staying again at the Commodore Regent Hotel. March 12 - highlight of the day was Seahorse World- here we visited a centre where they have many kinds of seahorses and are carrying out research. It was interesting to note that seahorses engage in a four day mating dance and it is the father who carries and delivers the babies. March 13 - We returned the car and left Launceston for Melbourne. John and Christine were going back to Sydney.

... paranoia, meddling, incompetent-ness, and plain stupidity when later that evening they called to advise that after taking in all the "facts" IE - roadside skid marks and conspired statements from the other sub-human drivers involved in the accident that they would be adding in a piece into their "official report" stating Pete was negligent and had not taken due care and caused the accident? What??? As I had a front row seat in the accident the fact is that the only thing Pete ...

und nun sind wir auch endlich in melbourne angekommen!!.....:) nach 18stunden autofahrt und 3 tage spaeter habe wir es geschafft.  MELBOURNE !! Melbourne wird ja immer wieder mit sydney verglichen und man kann sich anscheinend nicht darueber einig werden,welche der beiden grossstaedte es mehr verdient hat gelobt zu werden. Wenn man mich jedoch fragt,und meine meinung zaehlt in diesem plog leider am meisten^^ hat melbourne zweifelslos sehr viel, wenn nich sogar viel mehr zu bieten als ...

... I had corn che for soup and the coconut milk from it must be dirty because for the next week up to my return to Australia, I had the runs. Next day it was for me to meet my other grandma who lived in Long Xuyen. Now I had to catch a bus/mini van there. Taxi'd to the Mai Linh ticket bay, but here I got screwed over. As I approached the bay, a guy asks where I'm going and do I need a ticket. Yes. Then he said ok hop on my bike I'll take you to your van. Thought 'hmmm maybe I ...