A quick post before heading off to bed. Its now 11.38pm and we still have to pack. Spent the day out at Woodend (about an hour out of Melbourne) having lunch with Larna's Uncle Bruce and his partner Ingrid. They live in this amazing mudbrick house in the woods. The house has glass bottles through some of the bricks and sculptures and artwork throughout the house and garden. We ate the delicious bull-boar sausages and then got into a hectic discussion about global warming, the state of the world and suicide rates in Australia. Won't go into the details but it was lively. Later we took a walk to feed Ingrid's two horses up the road. In the distance were Eastern Grey kangaroos grazing and looking at us. I sucked in the air and took in the very Australian view.
Yesterday (Saturday) we spent a fabulous day with Jacqui and Manisha, driving out to Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula and stopping at the Portsea Hotel for drinks and lunch/nibbles. The hotel is right on the ocean, and when we were there, two hens parties were in progress and a wedding in preparation. We chatted over a bottle of wine before heading back towards Melbourne when the first few raindrops fell. En route we stopped for dinner at the Abbotsford Nunnery which runs a vegeterian restaurant called "Lentil as anything" where you "Pay what you feel". Larna also managed to take some rather spooky photos of the nunnery....
Tomorrow we depart at 5pm!
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