Victorian Road Trip 2018

From Daylesford we popped down to Port Fairy for four nights, for the Port Fairy Jazz Festival as well as a nice town with some great coastal scenery.

Playing and listening to the Jazz was enjoyable as always and our accommodation was terrific and close to town to boot.

We left Port Fairy on Monday (11th Feb) and took a leisurely drive through Camperdown, Colac and Geelong to Queenscliff and the ferry across Port Phillip Bay to Sorrento. Typical of so many towns in country Victoria all these had their share of history, scenery and interesting and stylish architecture.

Sorrento, once we had recovered from the bill shock, was great too, and we explored quite a bit of the peninsula.

Portsea Pub was great to visit for a morning lemonade (no, really) and an evening meal, with possibly the best outlook of any hotel Australia.

We spent a warm, calm and sunny evening on the beach at Mount Martha, in front of our friend Graham’s boatshed eating fish and chips and alternatively watching an incredible sunset and a bush rat that befriended us.

We were nearly blown away by winds at the Cape Schank Lighthouse on a wet and cold afternoon, then the following day had a great drive up the coast to Mornington (with a seemingly endless shopping strip and every eatery and boutique on the planet) before going to the Peninsula Jazz Club’s Friday night concert.

The Royal Garden Jazz Band were, as always, brilliant, the average audience member, as always, a bit decrepit.

So we’re now heading home, via a side trip to Healesville and a night in Albury. This has been a great holiday, with fantastic company, fascinating places to visit and far too many pizzas, cakes, Pub dinners and cafe breakfasts.

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