Best Western Mornington

Well we've talked about it, planned it and now we're all packed and ready to go! It seems no time at all since I was counting down 101 days to go :-) We'll try our best to keep this blog up to date so everyone can see what we're up to. Roisin & Ryan x

When is the right time to travel, change your job, move house? Is the grass greener on the other side or is it best to stay put? Well, after many months of careful consideration, soul-searching, money counting and recounting and general to-ing and fro-ing ...

Walked around markets at Broome Courthouse, spending a couple hours, meeting up with Michael and Dinah whom we met at Mornington Wilderness Park, also Paul and family who helped us on Wednesday with tyre. Replenished our groceries and had lunch at MATSO's ...

... it reminds me of "South Fork" from the Ewings estate.  Wills and Lizzy are banished to the East Wing.  We had the best, longest ever game of Monster Hide 'n' Seek!  Next  day was a tour of the area. Saw Lizzies cheerleeder club, ...

... morning (only 18°C when we got up!). We sat down and had a coffee before completing the packing up. We drove straight to Mornington Wilderness Sanctuary and actually had to radio in from a little stand at the Gibb River Road, before we drove all the way ...

... . Five Best Road Signs: Welcome to South Australia, Welcome to Northern Territory, Welcome to Western Australia, Welcome to Victoria, Straight Road Next 146kms. Best Sunrise, Place and Time: Cape Leveque (Gemma only witness). Place you will Definitely go ...

... walk as well as the end so you can cool off at both ends – but of course it never works that way! Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary -  There is a research and development station here which has a trap and monitor programme in place. We attended a ...

... touch them which is a shame because Lee said they're really soft. On the way home we paid a very short trip to Rhyll on the Western side of the island (as you can guess it's a pretty small island) but it was all closed up so we headed to Newhaven where ...

... or not those companies were in that building it seemed, every building was ad space. So we got to the Best Western Mornington in Bromma (5 min northwest of the city) around midnight. There was very little parking and additional parking across the wide ...

After a week at Coles Bay we had to catch the Spirit of Tasmania back to Melbourne and set up camp on the Mornington Peninsula, initially at Western Port Harbour (East side of peninsula) for a week, and then Rosebud (West side) for a week.  Went ...

... the Great Ocean Road. Hailed as the world’s greatest driving road, it didn’t disappoint. Our journey began through the Mornington Peninsular on the east side of Port Phillip Bay, we made a little 10minute detour up to ‘Arthur’s ...

... a strange layout, in that you have the town, then a large park-type area, and then the coast. We stayed at the Best Western Tudor Motor Inn, which was quite pleasant. We had an apartment, with a lovely bright bedroom / bathroom upstairs, but the sitting ...

... no one else around! Yesterday morning we set off for the great ocean road. We first headed to sorrento on the mornington peninsula where we caught the ferry across the bay (a better option than driving back round through Melbourne again) for the ...

... Colac, and Winchalsea on the way. We were aiming for Queenscliff, to catch the ferry to Sorrento, at the bottom of the Mornington Peninsula. This peninsula is to the south of Melbourne, and the suburbs stretch part way down it. The 45min crossing was ...

... but we were too tight to pay their prices. The highlights of this trip where lots of gorges and crocodiles! but best of all was Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary where we twice saw the Gouldian Finch and Mitchell falls ... Next to the Bungle Bungles where the ...

... the Stadium. So using classic team picking tactics of which colour shirt do we like the most, fittest players and best team anthem we decide to back the western bull dogs! Lou 'I am not a sports fan' tells us all the rules and how the point ...