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Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Cheltenham November 1st 2018

Exciting! Tomorrow we head off on our 9 day Melbourne Cup adventure-it's been on our bucket list for ages so great to finally be (almost) underway. Pretty full on tour. Itinerary: Super early start tomorrow - leave home for airport at 3am - EK! 6am flight from Wellington to Melbourne. We decided to go as part of official tour, we're first timers and there are apparently a few potential pitfalls around being able to actually watch the races when there are 100,000 people on course! That's a pretty big number! Plus we get behind the scenes look at leading stables, 2 other (in addition to Melbourne Cup) top races days and a country meeting thrown in. We know tour host Des Coppins from the Wellington Racing Cub so all good there. Bonus for us with Wellington ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Cheltenham June 25th 2015

It is just 5 days until Leanne, Nathan and I head off on our 7 month adventure to Europe and South America. We have been thinking about this trip for ages, but never got the chance to make concrete plans until quite recently, so I guess that adds to our excitement. There is not much left to do; pack some more boxes, send the cars off to their new homes and hop on a plane on the 30th June. Even so, I know we will be busy until the very last minute. That is just the way we are! The plan is to spend over three months on each continent. We land in Heathrow first and have 6 days in England. Then off to Greece for about a month, but we have nothing booked anywhere so ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Cheltenham August 29th 2010

Well holiday is getting close... There is only 13 days till our holiday....We are all packed and the kids are all excited about it...... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Cheltenham December 15th 2009

Ok so here I am in Victoria in Mt Ilisa, I took a flight from Emerald to Brisbane and from there to Melbourne. I got the bus to the city centre where I then got on the Metro to Cheltenam when Tim picked me up. The area is very nice and I am very close to the beach. Good news I should be able to upload some photos very soon. They are not very exciting, most are from the farm and from the trip I took to NSW. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Cheltenham February 25th 2009

Well here we go again. We are counting down once again. But this time it is more special. Because We are getting married this time around in las vegas by elvis lol......... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Cheltenham February 20th 2009

This morning, with a heavy heart (and a much lighter wallet than 3 weeks ago), I packed up the tent for the final time and headed towards home. Echuca to Bendigo The road out of Echuca starts off being very flat, and the countryside gradually becomes more undulating as Echuca is left further behind. After making a right-hand turn in the middle of a little town called Rochester (it has been claimed that this was named after Jack Benny's man-servant but I've been unable to verify this) the hills become more... umm... hilly until finally Bendigo comes into sight in all its golden glory. By my usual process of randomly riding the streets I found a nice little cafe called "The Wine Bank". This is a wine bar and retail outlet operating from a heritage listed ... read more




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