On the road again, the Great Ocean Road

After a bit of a debacle with the hire car I headed out of Melbourne to Geelong, it was 3pm when I was passing through the unavoidable city bit and being a Friday afternoon, the traffic was super slow. I was glad to arrive at my airbnb in a quiet suburb of Geelong.



Fly

Molly

My host Linda and John were friendly and entertaining, although some of John's jokes you have to be in the mood for! Nevertheless, the wine came out and I was introduced to their 2 old dogs, Molly - a Scottish Terrier who is extremely fat like a balloon age 14 and Fly age 16, I forget the breed but he's blind and a bit deaf but very endearing, he walks in continuous loops of the place gently bumping into things. The dogs have a favourite place to sleep, of course they both want to sleep in the same spot despite having the run of a large deck and garden, but really it's Fly's bed, when Fly finds Molly in his bed he barks and Molly can be brought out from the bed by the slightest call as she's always thinking of food! Fly often doesn't know his bed has been vacated and will continue to bark at the empty bed, poor old chap!

Molly is very affectionate and will come up and sit in front of me and then roll over and wag her tail, for a fat dog she sure does move around a lot, neither dogs keep still for more than a few minutes.

 

The day after I arrived it was the Pako Parade, held in Pakington street every street, the road is closed off and fills with markets and food stalls with food from around the world. Most of the food is yellow; something deep fried or something in bread deep fried or maybe just something in bread, but overall impression is yellow. The parade consists of whatever different community's they have in Geelong and a brass band, the band were great, they played the Star Wars theme tune and wore storm trooper outfits, there was also a magnificent trio in lederhosen with accordions and oboe, they rocked.
After that I went to the Art Gallery, the sea front and then back to base.

Today I visited Queenscliff, the other side of Mornington Peninsular I visited where the Echidna was sighted, and then onto Torquay to have a wander along the beaches.
Tomorrow, I'll finds me some gold!

Fun converted attic room for guests at the airbnb. Like a little chalet.

Its difficult to write with a mouse, Melbourne NE, Ballarat NW, Great Ocean Road SW