Off again

We had a good trip down the Great Ocean Road today. The journey itself was a little tedious at times (I reminded myself just how much I *hate* long distance bus travel), but the content was interesting and well presented by our driver. The southern Victoria coastline is impressive indeed, and by way of adding another little tick on the 'things wot I have done this holiday' form, I went up in a helicopter over the twelve apostles and London bridge rock, which was kinda neat. Transpires that the folk who were stranded on London Bridge when it's link to the mainland collapsed were not at all happy about the publicity surrounding their rescue - they were not supposed to be there - at least not together!

Fantastic time at Dracula's cabaret restaurant last night - highly recommended. We met with Alison and Kevin, a couple of ex-pats who now reside in new Zealand and are just visiting Melbourne for a couple of days. Given it was officially going to be Hoopy's birthday only 45 minutes after the show finished, the four of us continued drinking at a local bar for another couple of hours. Most enjoyable, though could have done with not having to be up at 06:30 this morning.

Speaking of getting up, tomorrow's worse. We have to be at Tullamarine for an 08:30 flight to Sydney, so it's a 05:30 start. Ugh.

Things that have impressed me about Melbourne :


* The nice people at the MCG replaced the Ashes fleece I purchased in Adelaide that had crapped up in the wash.

* Dracula's Cabaret Restaurant - bloody marvellous.

Things that have not impressed me about Melbourne:

* Everything else


Next stop Sydney.