Melbourne revisited...a final farewell.

We had the pool right outside our apartment...great, but it looked more like a small leafy water feature and it was freezing; can you believe the children still wanted to go in it? Central courtyard location with great pool access, said the website. Yeah right!



Maitland gaol again? No, this was Old Melbourne Gaol, where the infamous Ned Kelly was hung!


Jessica tried on the scaled down replica of Ned Kelly's armour...very fetching!


Ned Kelly's death mask, with a strange paranormal white orb, floating eerily above.......they say cell 17 is particularly haunted!



Our final farewell to Sharon, Greg, Kate, Josh & Emma. It was great to meet up with them all the way from Perth. You'll notice that trying to get this many children smiling at once is an impossible task



And on the way home......a giant Ned Kelly in Glenrowan where he was finally caught!! How many giant things have we managed now?



Another amusing thing that kept us entertained on our journey was spotting place names which are the same as in the UK; there are loads!! Of course we come from Newcastle, for a start! Our local suburbs include Jesmond , Wallsend and Gateshead
But the funny thing about the names is the way neighbouring towns are also related....so on Phillip island we stayed in Cowes. Below is one of the local pubs with obligatory ye olde Gothic font. The other main locations we could have stayed in were Ryde and Ventnor.

Now this place on the banks of a river called the Avon. We wonder how it got its name?????

"If we don't say upon in the middle nobody will notice."