Back in Victoria

We left Victor Harbor on Friday morning with the intention of getting half way to Melbourne.
As we went up to the mouth of the Murray River we found ourselves at a ferry crossing that we had been on before when we went to Adelaide in 1998. This took us over to Tailem Bend and from there it was back onto Hwy 1 again. We stopped off at Keith at a little cafe for yummy hot pumpkin soup.
Not far east of Keith we had to stop at the side of the road and draw a line in the dirt to mark the 10,000th kilometer that we've travelled since leaving home 29 days earlier.
Soon the rain was coming down in buckets and the road was getting quite busy with Friday afternoon traffic, so we did a quick cruise around the motels in Horsham to find a bed for the night. I'd looked at Horsham motel prices on Wotif and theyre all around $100 a night. We chose the Majestic motel which was not on wotif and the tariff was $90. There was nothing Majestic about it, but it was clean and warm. We went to the chinese restaurant next door.
Next day: MELBOURNE

SATURDAY: We left Horsham around 9am and got to Ballarat where we went to a shopping centre to get some things we needed. Then we decided to go on to Bacchus Marsh for lunch. Its been 13 years since we had called into Bacchus Marsh and found that its really grown (I suppose as its so close to Melbourne, a lot of people probably commute) We had to find a chemist and an ATM so the shopping centre seemed like a good spot to try.
The night before at Horsham we saw an ad on TV for Chickenfeed. Apparently they have opened some stores in Victoria recently. Well, this shopping centre in Bacchus Marsh has a chickenfeed store! Felt like we were home already. Don'tcha Love 'em.
We had lunch in a little eatery there (Lamb and pearl barley soup) mmmm. Then it was on to Melbourne. We stayed at the Novotel St.Kilda and we went out to dinner that night Peters sister Eileen, her hubby Rob and their son Graham. Also that night, we met Linnie Carew and her family who are all related to the Ray family. We all went down to Acland Street for ice-cream afterwards. Graham showed us a shop called Trampoline that sells gelato. Very delicious. We also found a cleanskin shop selling red wine for less than $3 a bottle. They also have a shop in Richmond which we went to the next day and bought enough to fill the wine rack at home.