Quality Inn And Suites Menzies Ballarat

Set off today for Sovereign Hill and to try our luck at gold panning. At first look it didn't look like there was going to be much to do but got to the end of the day and hadn't seen a lot. The kids liked the tour down the quartz mine as it started in a "ride"down into a mine in cargo cart train.. in darkness. Other things we did or saw was candle colouring by dipping in coloured wax, old time 9 pin bowling, watching a very funny pantomine, the boys became soldiers for an hour and ...

G'day everyone, We arrived safely in Ballarat and headed straight for the Eureka Stockade Caravan Park and found ourselves smack bang under the Southern Cross flag flying above the Information Centre. The centre itself is right on the very spot where the Eureka Stockade took place. We took a short drive into town to check out the city centre and to keep well away from the bakeries, as Dave can't eat pies in every town we go to. Ballarat has a population of around ...

... was fandabidosee! we spent all day there - got wet - went down the mines - met some real weirdos - and todays meet of the day is a couple from bristol who have just emigrated... they too are finding things hard being away from home at this time of year! after a long chat with them (yep we all moaned about the weather - a very british thing to do) we had a ride in the ...

... money for Proclaim.. she asks if I'm going I say no .. its a donation for Fiji. She says she don't take donations thats next door... strike 2. (Early in the week I wanted to donate 10 dollars but the girl I went to said she doesn't take it accounts dose.. clearly she didn't know who did and assumed it was Maureen.) So besides that I got my change and then she asks me if I have made arrangements with someone about paying my bill for staying... I said yes.. I asked ...

... responded "up your bum" or if 19 was called out the host played a song about a boy who "was only 19"). If someone got bingo they had to scream out "fu*king bingo" and go on stage to spin the "wheel of death" which was a wheel made up of all dead famous australians (including Steve Irwin, Harold Holt(prime minister of Australia who drowned). Whoever the bingo winner landed on, they received some sort of momento ...

... einen Haifischkopf an einem Stab zu kaufen (Ihr wisst schon, wo man das Maul von einem Ende aus bewegen kann?! Sehr furchteinflössent), aber mich doch dagegen entschieden. Onward, back through the park, along Spring Street. Passed the beautiful old Windsor Hotel. I hear they have great 5 o'clock tea. Walked by the Parliament building, which really just made me think of running stadiums. In front of the City Museum I hopped on the FREE circle tram and made my way back to the tram home ...

... remote but did the job! and our clocks had to go back 30mins! The next day we completed our trip to Adelaide and got to the hostel at 3pm, emptied the car and drove around to the Oval to see if neil could get a ticket for the england cricket match but no luck, so we checked out where the britz camper place was for the next day then we took the car and dropped it off. Had a wander around Adelaide centre but not much to see. Up early at 7am! to get up to the place to ...

... So lil and I put on xmas carols and danced around (or beside seen as its 2d) it. We are amused at the number of emails we are getting with the question: are you sick of each other yet....We cant get sick of each other because we are the closest to family we have here (okay Lil has her Bro and Dave, but still) So we do fight , come on living 5weeks and spending nearly every minute we are awake together , we are bound to get sick of each other ....but now we have become like ...

... the grounds of a small vineyard and was home to around 20 Alpacas. we spent our time in the Yarra valley relaxing and visiting numerous Wineries where Jo helped Steve's mum (Cath) get a little tipsy. We left the Yarra valley and traveled south to Philip Island. Philip Island was much smaller than we had imagined and we spent the day touring around it's narrow tracks. We raced some go-carts around the F1 Bike Track, Jo was left eating Steve's ...

We awoke to another warm day (27 degrees C) and headed to breakfast, opting to sit outside this time whilst watching the Kangaroos graze in the field opposite. We planned to actually get to MacKenzie falls and the rock art today and were pleased the day was a complete contrast to the freak storm of yesterday. The first falls we visited were Spring Falls which, were not particularly pretty, or big, or impressive, however, they did disappear into nothing! At the base of the ...