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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]