Our last blog you will be sad/relieved to hear! It is our last day in Melbourne which has been an eventful one so far- cleaners awoke us at 6.30am to find us and our stuff still in situ (they weren’t very impressed) which makes packing fairly swift when a middle-aged angry Maltese woman is barking orders at you!
After our weekend at the Australian Open we flew to Alice Springs and negotiated the 5 hour drive through the desert to Uluru (in a Hyundai Getz, not ideal) We arrived at Uluru just before sunset and took hundreds of photos of it as it changed colour with the rapidly reducing light. The temperatures soared to 46 degrees that day! The next day we journeyed to the Olga ranges which are like a ‘lumpy’ version of Uluru where we did some hiking, but not as much as we would’ve liked due to the heat. We actually found the Olgas more impressive than Uluru, surprisingly. We headed back to Melbourne via Alice Springs again as Fi’s annual leave finally ran out!
Fi returned to work and Daniel and Dave hit the Great Ocean Road diving into some remote coves and bays along the way. While Fi was still hard at work Dave jetted off to New Zealand to make the pilgrimage back to Invercargill, where Dave lived for 7 months, 8 years ago. He stayed with his host family from 2003 and caught up with members of the PE department and the secretaries, who treated him like he’d only been gone for 2 weeks!
That brings us to this week, where we’ve said goodbye to friends and colleagues. We had an amazing dinner at Jon and Gail’s where they showed us a video of our time down under - check it out on facebook! We will miss Melbourne and friends old and new, but equally looking forward to coming home .
We are heading home via Japan and we will land in the UK on 25th February so see you soon!
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