Lickable Wallpaper

Winter – I’ve finally decided that I have a favourite season and it’s Winter. After spending the last seven weeks or so in warm and humid places, it feels wonderful to be somewhere where I can wear trousers and warm clothes again and don’t have to worry about suntan lotion, insect repellent or trying not to sweat! Unfortunately we still have to take the anti-malarial pills every day (they need to be taken for four weeks after leaving an affected area) as they make me feel a bit sick and have the strangest and most vivid dreams nearly every single night.

We’ve spent the last week just outside Melbourne staying with our pals Michelle and Justin and the smiliest baby in the world, Molly. Molly is just shy of one, and spends the majority of her day grinning from ear to ear and pointing at things – she makes me want to be one again too :-) We had a much appreciated break from the now routine task of looking for a place to stay, places to eat and places to visit as we just sat back and got ferried around everywhere by our lovely hosts – I have to say I really enjoyed it and spend a lot of time dozing and drinking tea, but we also got to see the sights – the Mornington Peninsula, Great Ocean Road, Torquay, Otway Treetop walk, the Twelve Apostles and some very cosy Vineyards with big log fires and lovely wine :-) We had some top notch tucker in both Michelle and Justin’s parents houses and even had a morning tea date with the neighbours complete with the scones, jam and cream!

We didn’t actually see Melbourne city until the day before yesterday so only spent two days there. My mums cousin Eileen took us for lunch and later that day we headed up the mountains for another slap up meal with her daughter Jane and her family. Melbourne’s a really nice city in which you could spend days wandering around and exploring and we’ll hopefully return at some stage in the future to see it properly but we had car hire booked and a not too many days left in Oz so we needed to make tracks towards Sydney.

Tonight, we’re on our first stop on the route to Sydney in a little gold-mining town called Foster about 200 km south-east of Melbourne. We had planned on hiring a camper van for the few days but it was working out stupidly expensive so we decided to take a car and stay in hostels and motels instead. The hostel here is like a little house and we were pleasantly surprised to find out that we had the place to ourselves (the owner came to settle up and left again) but another chap has since checked in – his rented camper van shit itself about 5 km away. Maybe hiring a car wasn’t such a bad idea after all!

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