We've Finally Got Away

At last! Only 5 weeks later than scheduled.  We picked the car up on Thursday afternoon (it doesn't quiet look as good as new, but far better than it did).  It has taken 5 weeks to fix, hence the shortened trip. Michael then had a mad scramble to remove seats and pack everything ready to leave on Monday.

 The lovely Tara and David invited us up to tea on Sunday night so that I didn't have to cook and clean up afterwards.  Great idea, we were very tired at the end of the day.

Got away at 5:10 am Monday morning and hadn't gone very far when we had to turn back for my ipad, just as well I mentioned it to Michael, I would have missed it very much.  We stopped at a maccas (outside Geelong) for breakfast, really always a bad idea, I have no idea why we did it!  I ordered raisin toast.  Now it's supposed to be cafe style (very thick), ha! not so at this maccas, they put it in  a sandwhich toaster (I think) and squashed it flat and hence very chewy and a little unpleasant.  Michael said the coffee he had was dreadful.  He had one of their chorizo and egg breakfast muffins and had indigestion for 5 hours afterwards - Oh dear.

We stopped at Warnambool for a leg break around the breakwater.  The waves were crashing in and fine spray coming over the wall, we decided not to  walk to  the end since we would come back quite wet.
We had stopped at Mt Gambier for lunch (this was very nice - soup and bread.  Fantastic bread, the nicest I have had for a while.) We were sad to  see so many of the shops empty, a whole block in one part.

We passed through kms of pine and eucalypt plantations either side of Mt Gambier and all the way to  Millicent.

When we got to Robe, we called into the information centre to ask  about accommodation.  She put us onto Cricklewood B and B, which has a winter special - stay 2 nights get the third one free.  It is terrific, overlooks a lake, has a fabulous balcony facing the east for great sunrises.  She has provided enough breakfast for a week, wine, chocolates, sweet and savoury biscuits.  They seem to  be really nice people as well.