Some say 'pinch punch first of the month', some say 'rabbits! rabbits! rabbits!' I had forgotten to say rabbits! rabbits! rabbits! on the first day of the month except this time - I remembered, apparently according to Les who I met at Francesca's and Dolf's in Wellington, to say this at the beginning of a month brings luck. So Rabbits! Rabbits! Rabbits! It's also the last month of these travels.
I overslept today, bother! I had wanted to be on the road early but didn't wake up till 9.36am, last night after watching Downton Abbey, I chatted with Linda for hours until is was past 1am, seemed like we have a lot in common, she made me laugh about her curiosity over small cubby holes and places you weren't necessarily meant to go into, oubliettes and so forth. Linda's husband John, made a delicious apple pie and then went out t buy cream! I was amazed, John is a Aussie as you get but there he was baking away a lovely apple pie, there was even a bit of cinnamon in there and some extra pastry decoration on the top. He didn't even eat any!
The Great Ocean Road is like Route 101 between San Francisco and LA except with shorter cliffs and more beaches. It also reminded me a bit of the road on the West side of Loch Ness. I stopped at Bells beach, went for a of a walk along the cliff and then along the beach and watched the surfers and later at another nice quiet beach for an hour or so just enjoying not doing anything. Then of course I had to stop at the sign:
I arrived at my next airbnb which was attached to but separate from the families house, there were some chocolates on the bed which I ate straight away like a ravenous beast, tea facilities and cutlery and plates so I could make my airbnb salad special:
- 1/4 cucumber
- 1-2 biggish tomatoes
- 1/3 bag sugar snap peas
- 1 95g tin of flavoured tuna, this one was sweet seeded mustard
- 1/2 avocado
- Sicilian olives, lots.
- Extra virgin olive oil if available
The flavoured tuna acts as a salad dressing. A great camping recipe as it doesn't really need cold storage and can be cut up with camping utensils. Delicious. I didn't have any avocado or olives left so I had another tin of tuna instead. I have eaten this meal for the last 4 nights, and have had a different tuna flavour tin each time which keeps it interesting.
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| Winkipop dreams, who doesn't love a winkipop! |
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| Great Ocean Road was work given to soldiers after the war to give them something to do. They did well. |
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| Bells beach with route surfers use to get into the water |
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| Another lovely airbnb, how cute are those cushions! |
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