137 days to go

Ages, but I'm trying to get my head around the pros and cons of going. I'll leave you to guess which is which:

Bacon Sandwiches

Decent beer

Well travelled stella (it doesn't travel well)

Bacon

God the traffic jams

Coffee! - you're having me on

You've know idea how great it is to have a butcher and a fishmonger - remember them

Insipid 3 week old defrosted fish at Tesco's

The weather

The pot holes

Sitting in a traffic jam for 2 hours going nowhere

Bacon sandwiches

Skiing in Europe - sorry but Aussie skiing is like Scotland (sorry home!)

Decent steak - some of the best raw materials in Europe but somehow Tesco has homogenised it by the time it gets to the shelf

Learning to moan about everything again (should be easy for a Scot)

Public transport

Living in the boondocks - Although it doesn't feel like living in a city I think a lot of Melbourne's pluses are that you're actually living in a big city - although it doesn't feel like it

Ability to fly for 1 hour and be in a very different culture. Melbournians might argue that there is NO culture in North QLD, but I can fly over 3 hours here and be in the same country.

Sunday brunch