Our Adventure - the drive from Melbourne to Brisbane
And so our Australian Adventures continues as we head towards Brisbane... Day 6 After leaving Melbourne we headed off on the M31 Hume Highway, heading towards Sydney. Before leaving the Mornington Peninsula it had been suggested that since we were going to be in Australia for a while the we should apply for a medicare card this is because the UK and Australia have a reciprocal agreement on medical care. This came in very handy when my poor husband had a little medical issue, we called into hospital in Seymour where he was seen, operated on and out within 30 mins and all free of charge! We stopped at a couple of places on route including one town where we were advised to turn our car around to face the way of the traffic otherwise it could be a $200 fine... we did so pretty quickly. One of the things that we had found on route were the frozen drinks at all the fast food places, these came in a number of flavours and were just $1 so it was great to ...