Barham Golf Resort

... work session, was Melbourne Cup day. To the local gambling community Melbourne Cup is like Christmas, New Year and every other special occasion all rolled into one. It's a major horse racing event with the day being a public holiday in the state of Victoria.<br><br>So there I was on hour 66, in the sweltering bar packed with nervy gamblers high on caffeinated soft drinks, when suddenly the room started to go blurred and dark and the ...

Just a quick stop over in Hay for the night. Hay seems to be quite a farming town with alot of sheep shearing.<br>It was a very hot day in Hay so it was a great relief to see a nice clean cool pool in Hay Caravan Park. We had a quick dip before having a ...

... one woman who spent the whole four hours on her mobile arguing with someone nicknamed 'pork chop' over a television which had been delivered to the wrong house.<br>My train got into Swan Hill at 11 p.m. and Fay, another girl who works in the pub, was there to pick me up.<br>Fay is from England and also lives in the house I am staying in, as does an Irish and French girl.<br>The house, which is owned by the owners of the pub, has plenty of rustic charm shall we say ...

Had a nice cool ride up to Bendigo this morning. Stopped in Kyneton for morning tea, arriving in Kangaroo Flat (a Bendigo suburb) about noon.<br><br>Went out for a drive around the area to see where the recent bushfires had made their marks. Quite extensive damage around here, but this upcoming fire season may be even worse. Did my best to help, bring in 25-30mm of ...

... think Glasgow Southside. We didn't go to any of the clubs but just headed for the bars and stayed till closing time. It was mobbed because of the races and we bumped into some of our new friends from the daytime as well which was a good a laugh. Amazingly enough there wasn't a single hangover in the house this morning - which leads me to believe we were all either still *********d or we actually didn't drink as much as we initially thought yesterday. I'm going for the ...

Set off this morning to go on the paddesteamers. We all had an enjoyable time and then pushed the excitement levels to the next step and went on a horse and carriage ride. Was nice to step back in time but was gald to leave it all behind after going to the penny parlour (although the boys seemed to enjoy it) and the old 3 stooges movies - sorry for those that are fans but they don't do ...

The boys didn't want to say goodbye to Sam as he went to off to school as we don't know when it will be next until we see him (or the rest of the family) again. Very sad....aawww! Not long after we left Melbourne behind and headed towards Echuca (near the Murray River). It's not really on the way home but Jeremy wanted to go to see the Paddlesteamers. Got in not long after ...

... a break in Mildura, then followed the river back into Victoria to run down the Murray Valley highway to Swan Hill for the night. First big day on the road, about 650km so far.<br><br>Had a 50's style meal at the local RSL and hit the bed early. Bike parked safe under motel canopy for the night.<br>

Today was another nice sunny day, so we headed off for Kerang - about 60km from here down the Murray Valley Highway. When we arrived we found the pink shop. You see, the owner is a softball umpiring mate of mine - a lovely, in fact, quite incredible lady whom I met some few years back through softball. She and her husband own a dairy farm near Cohuna - she gets up each morning around 5am, helps milk the cows - 200 at present, down from the usual 500 ...

Let me rewind a little from the last entry. Ben works for a little car company called "Daimler Chrysler", heard of them? They were holding the Australian launch of their new car, The "Chrysler 300c", which is a massive car, 5.6 litre V8 engine, go on, type it into google. Journalists picked up the cars in Melbourne drove round for a couple of days, ended up in Apollo Bay and were then choppered back to Melbourne. In order to get the cars back to Melbourne Daimler ...