Mon 15 Jan. Melbourne

Lots of travelling the last few days. Left Quorn on Saturday morning and 4 hours drive then overnight in Adelaide.

Not sure why we thought a 12 hour train trip in a rattly tin can was going to be anything but tedious, but we travelled on the Overland from Adelaide to Melbourne and an hour's delay did not help.

Today we went to the night session of the Australian Open Tennis, first match Alex De Minaur v Milos Roanic, Alex is Australian and known as the 'Demon' by the Aussies, they like a nickname. He is their golden boy at the moment, so a bit of a partisan crowd as you can imagine, anyway Roanic is so boring , as was the match and then he retired, they said an injury but I think he had bored himself to death! So onto match two. Caroline Garcia and Naomi Osaka, bit better but not much, Garcia won in straight sets. We did enjoy it nevertheless.Read more