Mark and Freda's Wanderings

    After a day of exploring Adelaide, we’re back in our hotel room having a glass of wine before we leave for Glenelg for dinner.  We’ve been watching the news and there is a chance the Qantas airline engineers may go on strike over Easter.  We’re trying to decide if that’s bad or good […]

Tuesday, March 30th We hated to leave Port Fairy.  It is a quaint fishing village that that is slightly up river from the ocean.  We stayed at a hotel (Oscar’s Waterfront Boutique Hotel) that is an old converted ice house which had been beautiful restored into a hotel.  A family bought it and converted it […]

Monday, March 29th Okay, I know I keep saying it, but this was a another great day.  I feel like I’m finally on holiday – I discovered my watch battery died during the night, so I had absolutely no idea what time it was all day unless I asked Mark.  It was kind of freeing.  […]

Sunday afternoon, March 28th  MARK: We are on the Great Ocean Road that is a winding ocean drive similar to Highway 1 along the California coast.  We keep saying it reminds us of driving to Big Sur.  This is our first bad weather day, it has drizzled off and on and is deteriorating as the […]

Saturday, March 27th We had a wonderful time in Melbourne and are now driving south into an area of Victoria called Mornington Peninsula.   The middle of the peninsula is a wonderful wine region known for it’s pinot noirs and pinot grigios.  When we left Melbourne this morning, rather than getting on the motorway, we drove […]

Friday, March 26, 2010 MARK: Last night after coming back to the Bed and Breakfast to rest our feet we decided to have a late dinner because the first “Footy” game of the season was kicking off Thursday night and our location is directly across from the stadium.  It’s like going out on Saturday night […]

Thursday, March 25th Well this was another black t-shirt day as we’ve started called our days (HOT!)  We get up every morning, look at the cloudless sky, check the temperature, then rummage in our luggage for a short sleeve shirt.  Of the only 3 short sleeve shirts I brought, 2 are black.  It was fun […]

We’ll post more later, but just wanted to send a quick one out this morning. We are in Melbourne today and it is the first day of their Australian Football season. They call it Footy and it is quite different from rugby, soccer, and American football. We googled it to see what the rules are […]

Tuesday, March 23rd  10 am  We’re off on the next leg of our trip.  We just got to the Sydney airport to fly to Melbourne.  We definitely looked like tourists as we wheeled our luggage during rush hour down the street to the train – at least Mark didn’t have a camera around his neck.  […]

We flew from Sydney to Melbourne this morning and after renting a car we drove out to the Yarra Valley. We checked into our hotel and then went to a couple of wineries. I regret to say that the first kangaroo we’ve seen since we got here was a dead one in the road today. […]