Adelaide -Melbourne.

So we were driving from Adelaide to Horsham....we'd had a late start to the day, a nice jog along the River Torrens for me and a slow start. Then a touch of shopping and coffee. As we headed into the Adelaide hills, one of the kids Emma I think spotted a sign that said Melbourne was only 723 km. That was a real tempter, after a brief family discussion we all decided we'd drive through and stay at Melbourne the night, this plan involved a night at Crown ( a little treat before we hit reality) and a trip to my hairdresser the next day. three months on the road, two bad hair colours and one bad haircut, I had a hair emergency! The kids all needed shoes , they seemed to have sprouted on this holiday- must be all the fresh air and the good life! the only down side of our plan was that it was already past mid-day!

We hit Melbourne at about 10 o'clock that night!After a very long and draining day and many discussions as to how it probably wasn't such a good plan after all!Lucky for us the door men at Crown were very obliging and let us park the van in the valet parking, it wasn't going to fit in the multideck! They must have been having an oversize night as there was a huge dump truck parked opposite.

It was a huge treat to be sleeping in a room that was about triple the van size, had an ensuite ( and you didn't even have to wear thongs in the shower) and to sleep in a Queen size bed with clean, crisp sheets.I still maintain our bed in the van wasn't much bigger than a King single.

We found this crazy wall in a back lane in Adelaide, it had
thousands of match box cars stuck up it - imagine Harry's delight!

A close up of the cars