Days in Melbourne

The first day we spent with G and S was highly cultured! We took the tram to the centre of town to the National Gallery of Victoria.  There was the Gallery's collection and also a collection which had been bequeathed by someone who had collected paintings over the main periods of Australian Art.  Actually his collection was just as good as the Gallery's own collection.  We spent a good long time here and then sallied forth to a sustainable living fair which was taking place along the river.  Lots of motivated and worthy green people were offering their versions of saving the world and further along, lots of worthy and green people were offering organic beer and wine and competing hare krishna food and traditional Australian nosh.  We sat drinking organic beverages by the river while the sun shone.  Sushi for lunch and then we can't remember what we did next!  Richard thinks we went back and read the Duke of Marlborough which means a bit of a snooze, but I think we went somewhere else.  Oh yes, we collected the car and the GPS and went all the way out to Portsea which was miles! but see pictures of the sea.  Sophie and Liz complained mildly in the back that we were going such a long way we would hardly have time to get back in order to fulfil our evening plans but actually once we had put our toes in the sea we realised that it had been a good thing to get ourselves out of town.  That evening we had a bottle of champagne on our balcony and then went to a bar where some people had martini and some people didn't!   We had dinner at a terrific tapas bar, very good food and cheery and quite noisy.  In the memory it appears as a rather cheerful darkish coloured deliciousness with lots of laughter but no memory of about what.