We’ve just had a ten-day trip around Victoria visiting the Grampians, The Great Ocean Road and the Gold Mining district. Victoria is a smallish state of 227,000 Sq Kms, which is about a quarter the size of New South Wales. Its population is around five million compared with New South Wales’s seven million, because of its compact size it does have a much better road system with quite an extensive motorway system, in fact Victoria does most things better than any other state. At one stage we did consider retirement to one of the Melbourne suburbs, on selling our Sydney house we could have bought a mansion but decided in the end that we knew where everything is in Sydney, worked out well because we now have somewhere nice to visit. On the way down,
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