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If you had a television in England in the 90’s, chances are that you were exposed to the cult TV show that is ‘Neighbours’ – a soap opera set in suburban Melbourne. Brits in Melbourne often make the pilgrimage to the street on which it is filmed and as an added bonus, you can meet [...]

Around mid-afternoon the Melbourne media started telling everyone that they might want to head home from work before the storm to end all storms descended on the city. These things have a habit of causing flash flooding and hail stones the size of golf balls. With the storm coming in off the bay, I pedaled [...]

With a four-day weekend to play with thanks to the Melbourne horse racing cup, Meg and I decided to put the car through its paces with a road trip. I was keen to see how far we could get in two days before having to turn around. So we headed off eastwards towards the southeastern [...]

With the rest of Victoria suffering from ‘AFL final’ induced hangovers, we hit one of the beaches on the bay and caught some rays. It was about 24 degrees and so hot in the fierce sun that we had to seek shade. Not sure how I’m going to cope in the summer when it hits [...]

About $20 actually  – stuffed and with “realistic breathing motion” .We had to take a pic though, as he reminded us of our favourite Californian canine. Would probably make less of an impact on my toast in the mornings as well!

So we’ve taken advantage of Melbourne’s great public transport network and for the cost of a coffee we took a train and spent the day in the Dandenong Ranges – big eucalyptus forested hills about an hour from the city centre. The weather’s really starting to warm up now, and we did a 10k walk [...]

So they are keeping me busy both in and outside of my new office. This week I was sent out on the water to survey an old wharf, and then the next day, 50m up the face of a building in the city in a wobbly little metal box. The driver assured me and a [...]

So after all our efforts making glass bottle vases and guitar slides we finally found the time to make our sales debut. In hindsight, perhaps a school car boot sale wasn’t the best place to start, as we soon discovered the parents weren’t buying our hand-crafted offerings and the kids pocket money didn’t really stretch to our price tag. Still, [...]

So, the time has come to say a sad goodbye to our faithful campervan and we have sold it to a friend of ours in Wellington. While we’re sad to give it up, at least we know it’s going to be loved and taken on lots of great adventures. It’s surprising how attached you can [...]