Arrived at Melbourne

Arrived at Melbourne airport about 1 hour late but zoomed through immigration, luggage claim and customs. Carole was already waiting for us.

Drove straight to Ballarat. Had a bite to eat at Carole's and then off to Vic Roads to get a customer reference number so that the MH can be registered in our name. Then off to Telstra to get an Oz sim - that took ages. It took us about 3 minutes in KL, bought from a guy working on about 3 phones at once. Telstra took an hour 🤬😱.

Back home and took the dogs for a walk in the dog walking park - it’s more than 100 acres so pretty good. They’ve done a recent burn here and, to the delight of the dogs, the resident hares have less cover. The dogs chased three on different occasions with zero chance of catching them.

During the day, Carole told us of the action-packed day she had for us on Friday, apparently having forgotten that it was the day we intended to collect the MH. I messaged Sean at the dealership who said we could collect at 3:00 pm on Thursday.

Back home for a quiche dinner and discussion about our journey to Wodonga concluding that train would be the only realistic mode of transport.

After dinner, we drove over to Ballarat Rail Station to find out the best way to get to Wodonga where the MH was. A journey of 6.5 hours, coach-train-train-coach, 250 miles, AUD 10 each - we were delighted.

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