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After a long day of customer service training on Friday, I turned on my phone to find a message from Steve saying, “Let’s go camping tomorrow! I bought a tent.” Well, why not? So we packed up some gear and took off down the Great Ocean Road early on Saturday morning.
We ended up stopping halfway [...]

I wasn’t going to miss out on stuffing two years in a row (not that our pumpkin and spinach pizza wasn’t tasty last year) even if it was a few days late. There was no way I was going to manage a full Thanksgiving dinner on a work night without convincing the Australians that I [...]

The weather was looking good this weekend so we took the Gran Barina out for a spin down to Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula. It’s a pretty place for a daytrip and as always the water was crystal clear. Seeing as the sun was out, we grabbed an ice cream in the town and walked [...]

The Queen came to Melbourne today, and seeing as I had some time on my hands, I thought it would be a good opportunity to meet her and charm her into letting me into her country. She did wave at me, so that’s progress, right?
Conveniently, she was headed for Government House, which is in our [...]

We’ve finally got all the paperwork sorted out for our little barina after some adventures with a dodgy mechanic and his friend the legit Chinese mechanic. And, after inspiration from Clint Eastwood, Steve has dubbed it the “Gran Barina”.
This weekend the Gran Barina took us up to Warburton in the lush green mountains. We had [...]

Now that we’ve got wheels (four wheels, that is), one of our first weekend adventures had to be Bell’s Beach. Steve was itching to go see the “real sea” again, so we took off for a proper coastal walk.
When we got to the parking lot, there was a paraglider flying around just above our heads. We watched [...]

Hello Barina! Our horizons have just expanded. We took our new-old little red wagon for a spin through green farms and over to the beach today for our first weekend adventure. Hopefully there’ll be many more to come (and many more pictures)!

After a year in Victoria, we finally made it out of the state and down to Hobart, Tasmania for a long weekend. Keith, Louisa, and Adelaide were over from England and kindly gave us the grand tour. From a drive to the top of Mt. Wellington (and awesome views of a rainbow over TAS) to [...]

Time to solar charge…

It may not be barbecue weather here, but we found the most American diner in town celebrating in style. They were going all out with balloons and flags and the whole staff of teenagers in costume (including Wonder Woman). We slid into a booth for our milkshakes and burgers with yellow mustard and pickles and [...]