A Trip To Daylesford

A lovely relaxing few days getaway to Daylesford with Deb & Sebastian, in our lovely little cabin with its sensational little fire keeping us nice and cosy warm.


Our little cabin

We enjoyed a elegant morning tea (breakfast for us) at The Convent on Wombat Hill that consisted of some delicious fruit loaf lightly toasted, a Lemon Curd Tart to die for and some scones with Jam and cream. All of this served on the enclosed verandah of the restored convent on a lovely misty morning.


The Convent at Daylesford on Wombat Hill


Mr Cow on the Convent grounds

We Enjoyed a nice time at the Hepburn Springs Bathhouse with it's sensational natural mineral water bath, Sebastian thoroughly enjoyed it splashing about like crazy.

Plenty of relaxing and playing with Sebastian who was all smiles on his first family holiday.


Me & Seb chilling


Deb & Seb chilling

We took a drive out to The Chocolate Mill which imports Belgium chocolate melts it down and hand makes all their chocolate onsite and is only sold onsite and some products online. www.chocmill.com.au


The Chocolate Mill

The Chocolates are magnificent as are the hot chocolates we enjoyed whilst there.

The Building itself was made of hay bales and the construction was quite fascinating, you can read more about it all on their site along with a series of photos along the way The Chocolate Mill Construction


The Chocolate Mill, made of straw


The Chocolate Mill - Handmade Chocolates only sold at Daylesford


The Picturesque Lake Daylesford

What to say about the Natural Springs of Daylesford, dissapointment! The most un-natural springs I have ever seen, sure lovely scenery, a nice creek walk and some concrete springs.


A unimpressed Adam & Sebastian at the 'natural' Springs


Sebastian looking for a drink


Family shot, enjoying a nice walk


A lovely misty morning in the main street of Daylesford

A sensational Gourmet Larder Big Breakfast with one of the best home made Salsa sauces I have tasted, needless to say we bought a jar of this fantastic stuff and will become a part of our weekend big breakfast back home.


The Gourmet Larder Big Breakfast

Sandy Point Running.

Deb and Rob both took part in the Sandy Point half marathon, whilst Mak took part in the 10km run along the picturesque Beach Road and Esplanade in Sandringham.

The support crew of Ann, Ros, Sebastian and myself were in attendance and doing our best running impersonations from the sidelines, well me and Seb were anyway.

With parking chaos near the start/finish line I decided to head out to the 4km marker which also had the advantage of seeing the runners come back as 5km was the turnaround point so the 4km marker was also the 6km marker heading the other direction.



Seb had a wonderful time in his Jeep pram laughing hilariously as the runners rolled past, luckily he didn't laugh too much as Deb, Rob and Mak came past us.



Once we had seen the crew run out and back past the 6km mark we headed back into the start finish line to meet up with Ann & Ros, whilst Deb and Rob still had a fair way to go to reach their 21.2km finish line Mak would be finished in no time setting a cracking pace when we saw him.



As it turned out Mak did beat us to the Finish line posting an impressive 50 minutes and 2.7 seconds a personal best by nearly 6 minutes!

Deb completed her small run in 2 and a half hours, whilst Rob crossed the line in just over 3 hours.

Sandy Point Half Marathon - Deb & Rob - Mak 10km Full Album

A great effort by all the athletic folk and a great effort by the support crew as well, putting up with one of the worst coffees ever known to man was no mean feat.

SebTV - baba

Nanna (Lily) celebrates her 90th

The delicious birthday cake.


Great Grandma Lily with Great Grandson Sebastian.


Ann doing a great job catering and feeding the masses.


Time to blow out the candles.


A triumphant effort blowing out the candles.


Going through some happy memories.


Four generations.





The full gallery from the 90th celebrations can be found below.

Lily Cowan's 90th Birthday

Grandma & Grandpa Visit Seb

Some snaps of Grandma & Grandpa's recent visit over. I'm sure they have many many more on their camera of their ever so cute and cheeky grandson but here our a few of our pics for now.

Grandma & Grandpa visiting Seb

Mark Webber Wins Hungary Grand Prix - Funny

Monday 02nd August 2010 - The Today show reports on Mark Webber's Formula 1 victory at Hungary. Golfing footage of Stuart Appleby is shown and they do well to adjust on the fly before the correct footage is shown.