Wednesday 6 August

We were up early to meet Matthew and Sarah and collect our hire car to drive to the Great Ocean Road. Our taxi driver didn't have a clue where the garage was. We got the car from the friendly man at Thrifty Cars in Montague Road.

Sarah and Matthew at the Great Memorial Arch

The journey was quite straightforward via West Gate Bridge onto Princes Freeway. We stopped at Werribee for a big breakfast. I had Eggs Benedict. We passed Geelong and joined the Great Ocean Road at Torquay.

We passed Ainsley's Inlet and stopped at the Great Memorial Arch where we saw a monument to the soldiers who didn't return after the Great War, and a sculpture of the 'Diggers' who built the road. In Lorne we had lunch at the hotel there. The wine was nice.

This is Torquay, and that's the sea, just there between the sky and the land

After lunch we went on to Mount Defiance, stopping to admire the views, but it started to rain. We headed back then, calling at Torquay for coffee. Most places there were closed. We found our way back to Thrifty without too much trouble, and handed back the keys at 6pm.






Then we had shared platters and Belgian beer in the Belgian Beer Cafe.

At the hotel we found we had used our WiFi quota for the day. I watched Lewis on TV.