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| Stranded! |
We had a week or so planned for packing,
organizing and preparing our trip for after Bali – but for the first couple of
days we were a mess! The flight back from Bali was awful – boarded at midnight
and landed at 8am, even with an afternoon nap we felt rough for three days but
we did at least plan our last couple of weeks in Australia.
After a couple of amazing farewell dinners
we were feeling well and truly sorry to be leaving Brisbane and shed a bit of a
tear as we took off – especially as the route south took us directly over the
city!
We’d decided to head down to Melbourne to
visit Stu and Naomi who had been up to see us back in August and had promised
to show us the town and their new house. We had a mad rush the day we were
flying and as usual left everything to the last minute which resulted in us
missing our flight! So, 4 hours and $180 more than planned we arrived to a
temperature of 6 degrees (it was 25 when we left Brissy) wondering why we
hadn’t packed more winter clothes!
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| Titanic Pub |
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| Cocktails at the Croft |
We spent the next day exploring
Williamstown (where they live) which was pretty cool down by the waterfront –
and even home to a RMS Titanic themed pub (which I am GUTTED was closed during
the day!). That night we headed into the city for some drinks at the rather
awesome PonyFish Island bar (under a bridge!) and tasty dumplings at a place at
the top end of Chinatown. We even managed to squeeze in a final trip to my
favourite cocktail bar at the Croft Institute (the geek in me cant get past the
science lab theme!) before heading home to catch the AFL finals (when in
Rome!).
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| Windy by the sea! |
On the Saturday the kids very kindly hired
a car and we drove down to the Mornington Peninsular – much like the English
Riviera but with a few less old people! We toured around the beaches although
it was pretty cold when the sun went in so we limited ourselves to brief trips!
We stopped for lunch at the Portsea Hotel which was well timed as the sun
stayed out and it was fantastic for people watching – there was a wedding
setting up and the guests arriving were possibly the most ridiculous collection
of people we’d seen, I’m pretty sure if anyone had heard our commentary their
day would have been ruined…who wears a sky blue suit with white shoes and open
neck flared shirt to a wedding these days!?!
With an early flight looming the next day –
we opted for a quiet night in, Naomi cooked us up a storm, we had a few drinks
and mined them for some Asia travel advice, again watched a bit of AFL before
hitting the hay as the flight was at 8am and we didn’t really want a repeat of
the last one!
We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Victoria
and it was awesome seeing some sights we’d never been to – plus the chilly
weather set us up nicely for what was about to come…
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| Mornington |
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