Comfort Inn Moe

... lunch, to check for e-mails, but once again couldn’t access AOL, although other sites were ok.

From there to a historic swing bridge, but unfortunately we were an hour and a half too early for the Sunday opening, so had to move on. Closer to Melbourne by now, we found a large open cast mine which supplies coal to the Loy Yang power station which provides 87% of Victoria’s electricity ...

Just before we got to Melbourne we camped amidst the Poplars, a campsite a few miles outside the tiny town of Noojee. The campsite was in a forest, surrounded by some very tall poplar trees.
The next day we checked out the Noojee trestle bridge, an old wooden bridge over which the railway once ran. It is now part of the Victoria Rail Trail bicycle path.

... pressies Pete and I caught the train out to his Grandma's place for Christmas Eve Hungarian style with the rest of his family. Christmas Day was a healthy 28C and gorgeous blue skies. This year I'd agreed that I would show the Reisigner family a 'Pommie' christmas complete with a full english christmas dinner. After a few gin and tonics and plenty of stressing, Pete and I finally managed to negotiate his mum's oven and serve up a full Pommie christmas dinner. Between ...

... and using every bit of energy (and concentration) to get through it we just didn't care in the end. At that stage we just wanted to get indoors. Charlie more than me it seemed. Some of the nutter manoeuvres he was pulling off had me cringing and holding my breath. But I'm not knocking it. I understand. We had to get a wriggle on and ...

well i dont know if i;m excited or nervous. bit of both, once i get going i'll be excited. seems to take 2 months to get organised to go!! so much to think of and i have never travelled to a foreign country so am a bit nervous about the language. being a true aussie they probably wont understand me anyway. anyway here goes!

... of the "pokies", automatic poker machines that I mistook to be like the gambers at home. Sadly they were nothing like that, other that we pressed buttons repeatedly while lights flashed and our dollar disappered in 2c incremements, before we shuffled quietly out again....

... a couple of Antique stores and talked to the owner about the railway we would be traveling on Sunday. We thought we had to come here to catch the train, but later found we had misread the time table, and could start from Korumburra. We spent the rest of the afternoon playing several bracing games of Tri-onimos - we can hardly get any TV reception here at all - just enough to ...

... on the telly." Dave-o was only too pleased to oblige, so once again Shane Warne was losing his hair and his wife. On the way into Melbourne we drove close to the bushfires which had now claimed over a million hectares. The temperature had risen to 43 degrees outside as the smoke prevented the heat from dissipating, but as we got to the coast the tempereature dropped 20 degrees and the sky turned an eerie orangy red as the the sun tried to ...

... A number of valid hits will appear with an even bigger number of wine tour options. Afterall, Victoria is an epicure's heaven. Most of these tours had two things in common: wine and money. Plenty of wine for plenty of money. Knowing that there is a wine surplus in Australia and having just spent $3.90 (yes, three dollars and ninty cents) on a fine bottle of merlot, I was unwilling to pay an ...

... meine Chefin als Europäischen Freiwilligendienst beschreiben. Jetzt aber doch mal was Neues: Es ist kalt und glatt, neben mir fiel gestern ein eleganter Mann mit Aktenkoffer hin. Nicht aufregend genug? Nun, mich faszinieren hier eher die kleinen Dinge, wie die Frau, die heute in unser Büro in einem Hotel in der Hauptstadt Chisinau (sprich Ki-schi-nau) geschneit kam und eine Inventur unserer Möbel vornahm. Oder wie ...