This is the boat to Tassie !!
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Day 4 tassie trip
Day 4
We used this day to see a bit of Melbourne. We checked out the Queen Victoria Markets, various streets around the CBD and the Treasury Gardens. We went down to the docks to make sure we knew how to get on the boat which will happen tomorrow morning. We walked around this area, taking photos and relaxing. It is still a bit hot though for any serious walking so we took it easy. The best way to get around the city and to avoid the parking fees, about $3 per hour is to grab a bus to the city, which run every 15 to 30 minutes and then catch the free shuttle bus or tram around the city centre area.
We used this day to see a bit of Melbourne. We checked out the Queen Victoria Markets, various streets around the CBD and the Treasury Gardens. We went down to the docks to make sure we knew how to get on the boat which will happen tomorrow morning. We walked around this area, taking photos and relaxing. It is still a bit hot though for any serious walking so we took it easy. The best way to get around the city and to avoid the parking fees, about $3 per hour is to grab a bus to the city, which run every 15 to 30 minutes and then catch the free shuttle bus or tram around the city centre area.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Tassie Trip
Day 1 – Wednesday 28th
Drove from Coffs to head towards Melbourne. Stopped at Raymond Terrace to get an Etag for Sydney and Melbourne. More on Etags in another section of the blog. We spent the night at a rest stop just past Goulburn. Easy driving although we were on the road for 10 hours. and camped at a service centre overnight. Great amenities.
Day 2 – Thursday 29th
Drove to Seymour, 100km north of Melbourne and stayed in a caravan park on the Goulburn river, another 10 hours on the road. A little tied but again easy driving for we are having plenty of breaks – had a swim in the river and camped in the van under a tree. Very hot day 43. 7 degrees in the shade. Probably the hottest temperature I have been in. Vehicle air con really handy and the van is running well.
Day 3 – Friday 30th
Short 1 to 1 ½ hour run to a park in Melbourne, Ashley street caravan park a five star park that asks you to mop the shower out after you have a shower. (I guess I didn’t bother with that). Still hot 42 Degrees and to top of Melbourne’s woes in this heat wave we had power outages for a couple of hours due to fires along the power lines somewhere about. Melbourne has had transport issues and power problems due to the heat. This park was fully booked after we arrived mainly due to Wimbledon being on. There are many overseas visitors in the park here just for the tennis (I guest hats why the prices are so high). We checked out a big shopping centre, High Point, not far from our park and we go lost in the 5 story complex. Bought ourselves a desk top fan for the van and some wireless internet access. Tried the GPS in to Melbourne (thanks Tracy) worked ok. The street we wanted to go would not work so I found another street close that it did recognise. It took us to the street but it turned out to be the wrong street with the same name. Anyway I tried again and it turned out we were not too far away from our destination and it all worked out fine. I have put this location in the GPS as a favourite so we can get back after checking out a bit more of Melbourne tomorrow (cross your fingers).
Drove from Coffs to head towards Melbourne. Stopped at Raymond Terrace to get an Etag for Sydney and Melbourne. More on Etags in another section of the blog. We spent the night at a rest stop just past Goulburn. Easy driving although we were on the road for 10 hours. and camped at a service centre overnight. Great amenities.
Day 2 – Thursday 29th
Drove to Seymour, 100km north of Melbourne and stayed in a caravan park on the Goulburn river, another 10 hours on the road. A little tied but again easy driving for we are having plenty of breaks – had a swim in the river and camped in the van under a tree. Very hot day 43. 7 degrees in the shade. Probably the hottest temperature I have been in. Vehicle air con really handy and the van is running well.
Day 3 – Friday 30th
Short 1 to 1 ½ hour run to a park in Melbourne, Ashley street caravan park a five star park that asks you to mop the shower out after you have a shower. (I guess I didn’t bother with that). Still hot 42 Degrees and to top of Melbourne’s woes in this heat wave we had power outages for a couple of hours due to fires along the power lines somewhere about. Melbourne has had transport issues and power problems due to the heat. This park was fully booked after we arrived mainly due to Wimbledon being on. There are many overseas visitors in the park here just for the tennis (I guest hats why the prices are so high). We checked out a big shopping centre, High Point, not far from our park and we go lost in the 5 story complex. Bought ourselves a desk top fan for the van and some wireless internet access. Tried the GPS in to Melbourne (thanks Tracy) worked ok. The street we wanted to go would not work so I found another street close that it did recognise. It took us to the street but it turned out to be the wrong street with the same name. Anyway I tried again and it turned out we were not too far away from our destination and it all worked out fine. I have put this location in the GPS as a favourite so we can get back after checking out a bit more of Melbourne tomorrow (cross your fingers).
Monday, January 26, 2009
Crazy things
House mail boxes, the old style ones that are next to the road are generally too small for the majority of letters. We have a bricked in locked mail box, nice and secure built especially for the job. Yet the mail won’t fit in the box, the letters always protruding out, so anyone can come along and pull them back out from the front. Why would you design mail boxes that don’t take the letters?
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Word 07
Isnt it a bugger that word 07 by default has a line between paragraphs. It seems to me after a search through Google that many people agree with this. It would not be so bad if the 'fix' was obvious. See the itelya forum for a solution if you have not figured it out yet. I guess to figure out why this is the default you have to look at the bigger picture and the straetygy behine the 'file system'. A file system based on HTML would have this issue.
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