Ballarat Begonia Festival – Day 3 of Road Trip March 2020

Sunday 8th March 2020 Thirty-four years ago Bill and I were on a road trip for our honeymoon (a 5000klm / 3100mi road trip is bad idea for a honeymoon, by the way) and that is when we discovered Ballarat for the first time. The tourist office suggested we go see the Begonia display. We …

Albury to Ballarat – Day 2 of Road Trip March 2020

(Driving Distance Approximately 420klm or 260 miles) Saturday 7th March 2020 An alternative title for this post could have been Today was Talk and Travel Day. For our first night on the road, we chose a modestly-priced motel in Albury, not far from the Hume Highway. I'd booked directly over the phone with the owner, …

Day 8 of our Victorian Road Trip: Ballarat to Geelong

What a funny mish-mash of experiences we had on this day of our road trip from Ballarat to Geelong. First up, we dropped in to have coffee with our friends from Adelaide who were also visiting Ballarat. They had driven over 600klm (375 mi) in a two car convoy with their daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons …