Mooltan House Daylesford

Hat irgendjemand von Euch schon mal von dem Film "The Sound of Music" gehört? Ich bisher nicht! Aber anscheinend muss das hier in Australien der Film aus den 60er Jahren schlechthin sein. Matt und seine Familie hatten mir schon viel davon erzählt. Vor allem als Matt und ich in Innsbruck bei meiner Tante und meiner Oma waren hatte er sehr viel davon geredet und gemeint es sei genauso wie in dem Film. Auch die Dirndl und Lederhosen die er auf der Wiesn gesehen ...

Got up and headed towards Daylesford - home of Hepburn Hot Springs. Drove Bumblebee up and down many a hill struggling up and bumbling (geddit?) down, tried to find a free campsite but ended up staying at a place just inside Daylesford in Victoria Park. Had dinner and played silly computer games for hours - loving the laptop! We got up fairly early ready to explore Daylesford and some hot spring action. Unfortunately Debs ...

... and learned how "fine sparkling wine" (they aren't allowed to call it champagne) is made. Then we got to taste some sparkling wine, including a red variety which is one of their specialities. After all this tasting we headed back to Melbourne. The bus was very quiet on the way back - everyone was sleeping off the wine!!! Today I went to the Ian Potter Gallery, which houses the Australian collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. it is housed in a very ...

... was taken away! We are cool now and looking forward to heading North and picking up Jessie, a 2 year old Lab who needs a new home and more importantly...is trained and can travel Melbourne is great and we can see ourselves coming back here, especially for the Grand Prix next April for sure. So ...

... Friday. After the park Its a blur.. I think I went to the park in the evening with the DTS students and got to know Cristabel from Malaysia and Louise from Netherlands allot more ... I always ask them what brought them to Australia and how did they find out about the DTS and Yham base? I always get great stories from each of the students. Saturday the 8th, I had Coffee with Dane and Megs we all payed one dollar for our 3 dollar each specialty drinks for Megs had a ...

... Auf deren Schild haben die Arme. Dazu muß ich jetzt erklären, daß oft Pubs irgendetwas mit "Arms" heißen, weil es um einen "Coat of Arms" geht, also ein Wappen mit Arms, also Waffen. Also in England als eingesessenen Pubs, die mal irgend einem Fürsten unterstanden. Deshalb was das mit den Armen so lustig. Okay, vielleicht nur für mich...egal. Das Essen war ganz ganz großartig bis zum Dessert. Und sie hatten Kilkenny vom Fass. Alles total himmlisch.

G'day Its Sunday March 4th! Wow time seems to fly! So Im in staying at the YWAM.... (youth with a mission) Its an old brick court yard that looks like a private school for boys. (It was once a boys orphanage) Now YWAM has taken it over as there Base Camp in Melbounre. Im really enjoing the company here. Yesterday..... I woke up early at 8am and went for a walk , I saw a cutr cat .... and I thought of Sam my cat back in van.... so I went to pet it.... It was so ...

Eureka because i had a revelation... i was planning on heading to Sydney after Melbourne i suddenly realised there was little point as i would be going there before flying out to South America. and since funds were low and i still had to go to the Red Centre it was silly to go to the most expensive city in Aus twice!!Doh!!! So after a ...

... Jo packed away the kitchen. Monday and Tuesday saw my trip ending in the way it had begun with a trip to the Australian Open. I had ground passes for both days and it was good on Monday to just walk round and have a look at random matches on outside courts. Thankfully I'd read the weather reports on Tuesday and realising it was going to be a hot day, managed to get myself a seat in the Vodafone arena. It was a good job I did as play was canceled on the outside courts due to the ...

... better than in Perth. Fellow guests are true to type and consistent with my previous entries - although one notable addition is a rather stange English geek (late 30s) who is here with his mother travelling around Austrlia together!! - quite disturbing. Strangely again, there are very few Americans - I can only think the US just does not know Australia exists - in 1997 the New York Times only ran 20 articles indexed in the Australia ...