What sort of idiot would say to their wife on August Bank holiday Monday in England"Let's go for a drive from Bournemouth to Brighton, along the sea front, it's bound to be easy to park and everyone else will be at home". Well the answer to that question is the same person who says to his wife on the Australia Day holiday Monday, "Wouldn't it be a great idea to drive the Great Ocean Road today?" And in these two sentences you have the whole idea of our day along the coast.
Most of Melbourne was out for the day, several beaches were crammed and there were very few places to park.
In addition although we had discussed this drive with my sister and my nephew and niece no one had told us this was a 250 kilometre drive, each way. In a moment of senility we also badly misjudged what we had to do as we came back along a much faster road. In hindsight we should have driven out on the fast road and come back along the coast. We left our hotel at 9.45am and got back just before 9.00pm.
The scenery was fantastic and well worth seeing and the idea that the road was built as a memorial to the soldiers who fought in World War One made the journey especially memorable.
We are back to camping out in out hotel room, partly because the hotel wants 40$ a day for two of us to have breakfast, as we have a fridge, a kettle and a toaster we make our own breakfast , and use our plastic plates and cutlery to have salad and cold meats in the evening.
On this particular day we were both so tired we wanted something hot so we went out to a local take away and ordered some chips.We then crossed the road to get some falafel and bought those and a spinach and feta borek as well as a couple of potato and feta patties, all this on top of chips meant we had a lovely supper in our  room.
Supper over, fatigue set in and we were both in bed and asleep in fairly record time.
The scenery on the Great Ocean Road made the whole day worthwhile, particularly the Twelve Apostles, the Loch Ard Gorge and London Bridge. However, if we do it again we will stop at one end and have a bed and breakfast so that we can have more time to explore and so that we don't drive nearly 600 kilometres in a day.
I apologise for the rather short nature of the blog over the last couple of days but the hotel was charging $12.60 for two hours of Internet use, we tried to ration our usage , but by the time we had looked up addresses and routes and checked our e mails 2 hours doesn't last very long and so I was forced to write the blog quickly and to make it fairly short.
To the nineteen of you in Russia who have read the blog over the last few days, welcome. I hope you are enjoying it.