Sundowner Geelong

... to rely on public transport, along with the purchase of a bicycle for local jaunts... hence the 'hot and sweaty' in the summer heat. I hit the jackpot when I mentioned this to Mandy, who passed on her two wheels to me, saying that she will never ride them herself! Along with the long-term loan of a mobile phone from the same source, this has really set me up. Ken has been equally brilliant, changing my appliance plugs to Aussie ones ...

... sounds patronizing... but it is my honest experience.) Yesterday was a great day... I was driving from Melbourne to Geelong, on the 4th hour of driving for the day, and decided to have lunch in Werribee, and on the way into town, saw a sign for 'Werribee Open Range Zoo'. I am sometimes dubious about 'zoo's in small towns, as I have seen some horrible animal displays and been charged ridiculous prices for them, but on arrival, the car park was full to overflowing, so I took this as a ...

... on the town.  It was still about two hours before the night clubs would open, and we were completely beat by the sun, all of the hiking, and me also by my morning run.  Oops, we did it again.  At about 3 in the morning, we were all up, but it was a little too late to go.  Plus, I was still exhausted and ready to go back to sleep.  Apparently we're not too good at this "going out" thing, but hopefully we'll get to in Sydney or someplace. Tomorrow: whatever is open on Christmas day.

... fish so they were taken to provide us with a fish starter and very tasty they were. After a couple of cold ones we turned in for a good nights sleep only to be still awake until 3am due to pesky revelers! Sunday 26 th October Bleary eyed Alex went for an early morning fish and managed another tiny Australian salmon this one was lucky enough to be released. Ed treated us ...

... day was Good Friday so we headed over to spend the day with the Wills, Megan, Tony and their two boys, and Dallas and her new bloke who looked uncanilly like me (very weird), all at Lauren´s sisters house. We had a very nice day sitting in the garden sipping beers and eating then watching Nick and Alex have a swingball battle - Nick took that title after an epic battle with the pole nearly coming out of the ground ...

... local and a global scale and the ability to communicate openly with our neighbours, whether over the fence or over the ocean, is paramount to the future of the earth. Bit heavy at the end there I know but when I get started its hard to stop! But yeah seeing people leave is hard and also makes you miss the people at home more too so it helps you through in some way. So to all of you at home we miss you loads but we're not given up the 30 degree heat yet no matter how good the ...

... of the dangers of gambling and offering support etc. <br><br>Naturally Paulie thought I could do with reading these, so kindly spent a couple of minutes reading them out to me and then throwing them at me. How was I supposed to gamble through that sort of abuse?! <br><br>Eventually I got somewhere near back to parity, Paulie was up, and Rob about level, so we ...

... like most have been in Australia - bright and sunny and warm. I wanted to make an early start because I realised that I had to drive still 800 KM to Adelaide in one day. I don't know how I did it, but I completely misjudged the distance between Melbourne and Adelaide and so I had to some serious catching up to do. On top of this I still had to visit the Twelve Apostles so I knew it was going to be a long old ...

"G'day! How is it going?" It has been a little bit more than 2 weeks now that we have been in Melbourne. We are slowly starting to familiarize with our new surroundings. We went to a few areas in Melbourne but there are so many and they are all so different. It is great! Fitzroy is alternative and have heaps of great cafes and thrift stores. Right now is the winter sale so it is so hard not to be tempted, so many good deals... but it has been good for getting ...