{"id":1096,"date":"2010-05-27T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T07:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2010-05-27T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T07:09:32","slug":"10-beautiful-days-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/10-beautiful-days-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"10 beautiful days in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must say it was the best trip so far. Sydney (New South Wales) was nice, but Melbourne (Victoria) was really such a beautiful place, and I absolutely enjoyed the scenic drive along the Great Ocean Road. I will certainly return again!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1097\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392849631786_523521786_4595743_3878854_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1097\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1097\" title=\"Panoramic view from the Three Sisters at Blue Mountans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392849631786_523521786_4595743_3878854_n-300x51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392849631786_523521786_4595743_3878854_n-300x51.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392849631786_523521786_4595743_3878854_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panoramic view from the Three Sisters at Blue Mountans<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1098\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392897881786_523521786_4596961_8108798_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1098\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1098\" title=\"Beautiful Beaches\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392897881786_523521786_4596961_8108798_n-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392897881786_523521786_4596961_8108798_n-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392897881786_523521786_4596961_8108798_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beautiful Beaches<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On our way to the Great Ocean Road, we dropped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pettavel.com\/\">Pettavel Winery and Restaurant<\/a> in Geelong for lunch and the food was awesome (so was the wine). We even saw people fly in via Helicopter so it must be really good. I&#8217;d highly recommend anybody going past Geelong to have a meal there. A decent meal with a glass of wine averages around S$40-60 per pax.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1103\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_394092536786_523521786_4622642_1665022_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1103\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1103\" title=\"Fine Dining at Pettavel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_394092536786_523521786_4622642_1665022_n-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_394092536786_523521786_4622642_1665022_n-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_394092536786_523521786_4622642_1665022_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fine Dining at Pettavel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 2010 Holden Commodore SV6 with a 3.6l V6 engine we rented was also extremely fun to drive and handled really well around the winding coastal\/mountain roads.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1100\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975126786_523521786_4620814_2681172_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1100\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1100\" title=\"Apollo Bay Motel and Holden SV6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975126786_523521786_4620814_2681172_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975126786_523521786_4620814_2681172_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975126786_523521786_4620814_2681172_n.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apollo Bay Motel and Holden SV6<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We also took a 10 minute heli ride in a Robinsons 44 which was worth the experience!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1101\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975246786_523521786_4620832_4999979_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1101\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1101\" title=\"12 Apostles taken from the Heli\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975246786_523521786_4620832_4999979_n-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975246786_523521786_4620832_4999979_n-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975246786_523521786_4620832_4999979_n.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">12 Apostles taken from the Heli<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1102\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975271786_523521786_4620835_5356790_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1102\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1102\" title=\"Robinsons 44 landing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975271786_523521786_4620835_5356790_n-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975271786_523521786_4620835_5356790_n-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_393975271786_523521786_4620835_5356790_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robinsons 44 landing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And of course there&#8217;s no visiting Australia without coming into contact with Seagulls. Here&#8217;s a really fat one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1099\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392898006786_523521786_4596972_5467557_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1099\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1099\" title=\"Fat Seagull\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392898006786_523521786_4596972_5467557_n-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392898006786_523521786_4596972_5467557_n-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/29523_392898006786_523521786_4596972_5467557_n.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fat Seagull<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must say it was the best trip so far. Sydney (New South Wales) was nice, but Melbourne (Victoria) was really such a beautiful place, and I absolutely enjoyed the scenic drive along the Great Ocean Road. I will certainly&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/10-beautiful-days-in-australia\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,220],"tags":[237,246,249,248,239,240,244,242,243,238,245,241],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-travel","tag-australia","tag-blue-mountains","tag-great-ocean-road","tag-holden-commodore-sv6","tag-melbourne","tag-new-south-wales","tag-pettavel","tag-robinsons-44","tag-seagulls","tag-sydney","tag-three-sisters","tag-victoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tzlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}