EOI: Melbourne Trip

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:42 pm

Alex, Kim, Cass and Alan did a trip earlier in the year..

Would anyone be keen for a trip to Melb for a few days in the new year.

To do's would be

Garage Cafe - Thursday night VIC meetup
Great Ocean Road
through the Snowies

mmm Great Alpine Road

any thoughts?

emexv · Postby **emexv** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:57 pm

I did the Great Alpine Rd a couple of months ago. Make sure you include it Regie, it's awesome.

Apu · Postby **Apu** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:05 pm

I did that in the Grand Carnival...beautiful roads...less exciting car, but hey, it was comfortable and had a load of torque!

Twiggy · Postby **Twiggy** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:52 pm

Sounds like a great idea Regie

A.Chen89 · Postby **A.Chen89** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:21 pm

Sounds good, how early? Like first week of January?

Will be driving down in a couple of weeks if anyone wants to do a recce run *cough*

Postby **NitroDann** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:24 pm

That was the first ever drive I did in my NA6. Drove it home to newcastle from Melbourne, same route.

Memories

Dann

BadBong · Postby **BadBong** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:54 pm

I'm up for it depending on dates.

Hjt · Postby **Hjt** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:22 am

+1

Deen (hamx5ter) requires a trip to Melbourne if he is about to get some time off im sure he would be in.

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:24 am

Not sure on dates yet. I'm waiting on work to get back to me, I'm doing a delivery flight from airbus in January sometime

Might even wait till the school holidays are over, the GOR might be less crowded...possibly

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:39 am

If you want a good clear run on GOR (irrespective of time of year really as it's always crowded... but worse in summer) you need to leave Melbourne by 5am... It's a long day if you go all the way to the apostles so it's not really a bad thing to leave at that time.

I can highly recommend the Targa High Country roads around Mt Buller / Mansfield area. The Reefton Spur and the roads around that region are worth a drive too. The Black Spur is the best known road around there and is a great road, but too much traffic... There are quite a few less well known roads around there which are worth a drive

The thing you'll love about the roads down here is that the speed limits are typically more realistic than they are in NSW, so you can actually have a lot of fun without doing anything (too) illegal.

Apu · Postby **Apu** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:44 am

I'd love to do this! Getting the visa department to approve is another... I could to the high country route, into Melbourne and work (skip the GOR stretch) then join you guys again on the return leg?

Hmmm... :twisted:

Twiggy · Postby **Twiggy** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 12:09 am

Hjt wrote:+1

Oh no. You know what this means, everyone. Frequent bathroom stops. We'll never get there :wink:

r_muir86 · Postby **r_muir86** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 5:03 pm

Dates and how much notice we're planning on having will be the deciding factor for me, but I'll express my interest. GOR is incredible as is the Alpine roads... I would love to check out The Black Spur.

tuned_to_fly · Postby **tuned_to_fly** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 5:15 pm

I've recently moved to Melbourne so would be keen to catch up with everyone along the way somewhere :mrgreen:

Apu · Postby **Apu** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:39 am

Any plans so far? I've got to do it in the first week of January because its my daughter's birthday after that and then things start to pick up at work.