With a full two weeks in Aotearoa over the festive period, this correspondent took the opportunity to go on a short North Island road trip with the Mrs – “a holiday within a holiday” to use the popular cliché. From …
St Johns Heineken Bar – NYE in Wellington
Quick game of word association…….how would you associate an ambulance and a bar? I bet you were thinking: drunken youths drinking way too much to the point of requiring medical attention in the form of an ambulance. However, this is …
What was Harold thinking and Mornington musings
I’ve always been partial to some Orstrayan rhyming slang, and there is no more quintessetially Orstrayan phrase than “doing the Harold Holt” ie leaving ie doing the bolt. It is named for Australia’s 17th Prime Minister, Harold Holt, who is …
Name The Hue of Your Beer With Beertone
Forget colors like “Hazy Sunset” or “Chocolate Mousse,” we want to select the new shade for our room or the paint for the kitchen back splash with colors we’re familiar with. Colors of beer! Thanks to Beertone, you can match …
Hickinbotham of Dromana – another fine place to try beer on the Mornington Peninsula
I’m now convinced that there are few finer places in the world than the Mornington Peninsula. It is little wonder so many Melburnians flock here in summer. Apparently the population grows from about 135k to over 250k during the holiday …
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Red Hill Brewery – Bucolic Beer Imbibing at its Best @redhillbrewery @gumbokitchen
The most important thing, in the first instance, about Red Hill Brewery was that it was open. The Mornington Peninsula is a deceptively big place. A drive from Sorrento to Red Hill is not a hop, skip and a jump …
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On the back of the Queenscliff-Sorrento Ferry and Bellarine Brewing
The Great Ocean Road ends (or starts depending on your perspective) at the town of Queenscliff. Queenscliff is also one end of the Queenscliff to Sorrento car ferry route. It was my pleasure to experience this great ferry ride and …
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The Otways – a region of missed opportunities
Despite oppressive heat, I am loving Victoria. It is an easy State to drive around and for a first-timer other than Melbourne, there is so much to see. For the last couple of days we’ve been doing the Great Ocean …
Hanging Rock, Holgate Brewery and Empress
Mrs BotF was keen to inject some funds into the Daylesford economy, just not into the parts in which I’m interested. A quick look at the map indicates that Daylesford is close enough to Woodend which is the home of …
The Tooborac Hotel & Brewery
After a great couple of days in Thredbo, a long roadtrip to Hepburn Springs in Victoria beckoned. Nothing fun was planned, but luck was running my way. As we cross-countried from the Hume Highway towards the Calder one of the …
back of the ferry 