Saturday was a travel day to Melbourne airport, we got away at about ten thirty and stopped in Myrtleford so that we could purchase our lunch from the bakery there. Two filled rolls and two soft drinks and we were off on the road for the four and a half drive to Melbourne.
We stopped for lunch in a fairly odd service station and arrived at the airport around three. We booked in at the Holiday Inn and took the car back to Avis.
The check in of the car went well and we walked back to our hotel only to discover that a bottle of wine we had bought as a present had been left in the boot of the car. The tour manager despatched me to return to the garage to recover the wine. It would be fair to say she was not pleased.
This did not prove as easy as one might have expected. The car had already been sent for a wash and the wine had been found and sent to lost property. My case was not helped by the fact I didn't have the car registration which rather delayed things.
Eventually I was found on the dreaded computer and various messages were sent. I was told to sit and wait and about fifteen minutes later the wine and I were reunited.
The drive from Bright to Melbourne starts in the mountains and continues through the Ovens Valley to flat grassy plains before reemergeing into hills just outside Melbourne, it is a good road but a very uninteresting drive.
The Holiday Inn was good and we had a relatively good meal in the evening before retiring tied and relatively very happy.