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It being the holidays here in Australia my wife and i have taken our two kids (aged 10 1/2 and 9) on a road trip round Australia.
Today we drove from Adelade to Melbourne - about 700 kms (440 miles or so?)
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Took about twelve hours by the time the kids stopped here there and everywhere to see the sights.
Australia has a love of "Big Things"
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and today we saw the Giant Koala as well as a giant gold miner and (see picture) the giant Olive.
My son is really excited about seeing the big things and is looking foward to seeing the giant rolling pin, the giant Ned Kelly and the Giant Murray Cod.
Can life get any better?
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01/03/08
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ignatius
awesome. i had the chance to visit australia a couple years ago. it's beautiful. we drove on the coast and saw the 12 apostles. it's a great place for ... once you get used to driving on the wrong side of the road ;) have a good time 
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deltasleep
wow I bet thats an amazing trip! How long are you taking for all this- pretty big place isn't it?
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LeoMANXVII
you need good roadtrippin tunes!
01/04/08
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applaud
The plan is - Adelaide to Melbourne yesterday
Today and tomorrow in Melbourne
Then Melbourne to Sydney on Sunday - about 900 kms
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Five days in and around Sydney
Then back to Canberra (national capital) for a couple of days
Then back to Adelaide with a night's stop over in an old River Town called Swan Hill
About 2,500 kilometres in all - what's that - 1500 miles?
Yes I have good roadtrippin tunes - I got tylth's Secret Santa CD just before I left home.
So - today spent in Melbourne. Pretty much the important thing on a Lord Family holiday is the food, so we'll discuss this.
There was pretty much nothing in the place where we are staying so we headed off to the local shopping centre and found a Chinese bun shop. Bread rolls stuffed with Spicy beef make a pretty good breakfast we found.
Then lunch at Melbourne's market - my wife and daughter had pizza. Tuscan pizza we were told with olives and tomato and rocket and goats cheese.
My son had Turkish garlic bread - covered in olive oil and garlic, heated and then had copped parsley thrown over the top.
I had bratwurst with mustard and sauerkraut in a roll. Just next to where we were eating the market was a liquor shop so i wandered over and got a bottle of beer - I mean - beer / bratwurst - it might work. The guy said "Do you want me to open it for you?" Well yes. "Can you drink it discreetly? Because no-one's ever told us if we're allowed to sell beer to drink or just bottles to take home. We've never had any problems, but that's just because no-one's ever noticed that we do it." So I discreetly drank my beer and no-one dragged me off to jail. It wasn't just any beer - it was a beer made by a winery in South Australia and was pretty bloody good (oh all right - link )
Then we headed to Saint Kilda by tram - Melbourne is full of Trams.
Took the kids to Luna Park - a big old amusement park that was great for the kids (and again, just so you feel a part of the experience link ) Austin - my 9 year old son - is really excited because there's a Luna Park in Sydney as well and he gets to go to both in one week. That big mouth in the picture is actually the gate to the thing.
But enough about fun - back to the food. St Kilda also has a big Jewish population and a bunch of Jewish bakeries. There's a bakery there called the Monbarch bakery that's been making plum cake and cherry strudel and polish cheese cake and above all, chocolate kugelhopf since 1932. My wife goes crazy over chocolate kugelhopf (it looks like this: link - only I think that theirs has more chocolate filling) So while my wife was gorging herself on chocolate cake - just the one slice you understand and I waited for my coffee to arrive I took the kids off to the ice cream shop next door. (and yes, there's a link ) They both had two flavours of ice cream - Ashley (my daughter) was moderately sensible and had pineapple and lemon gelato (although she was tempted by the lychee and lime sorbet). Austin just went berserk. His two flavours were: coconut and raspberry with marshmellows (known as iced vovo, named after a famous Australian cookie) mixed up with with chocolate crackle ice cream - chocolate ice cream mixed with chocolate coated rice bubbles. I'm not making these up - the flavours are all listed on the website.
So then we bummed around a few book shops and dress shops (well, my wife did) and record stores (well i did) antil it was time for dinner.
Off to Chinatown for Barbecue Pork with rice, Peking Duck rolls and Soya Sauce Chicken with rice.
Then we decided that probably enough was enough and we headed for home.
But tomorrow is another day.
01/04/08
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applaud
Oh - it's the Monarch Bakery, not the Monbarch
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ignatius
i like melbourne even though it has more hipsters than portland and eeryone seemed to be into "garage rock" when i was there. i found the food to be pretty tastey. good indian food there and every cafe had good breakfasts.. eggs benedict... yum.
i need a roadtrip now... you're inspiring my wanderlust!
01/05/08
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midgetfidget
Yeah we are overrun with garage rock hipsters, but it could be worse i suppose.
I love the big things!
So far in my life i've seen the big: banana, apple, koala, prawn, murray cod (disappointingly small), the miner, pineapple, sheep, bull, worm, and more i've forgotten.
There is a tiny town in mid NSW (holbrook i think) that has a massive WW2 submarine in the middle of it, despite the fact it is about 1000k from the sea. And the replica spanish galleon in finchley, that they run out of money building so they left it there half built.
Good luck on your road trip!
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