My husband is a road cyclist and has a mountain bike and he rides the trails on his own and he has not been attacked by anything, depending on the trail its dodging the cylists and walkers with dogs He goes up the country and rides the rail trails with our son. Have a look on the web there are lots of them now. There are also lots of trails around Melbourne which are very popular.
hi every one were hoping to be in melbourne early 2009 ,was looking at frankston as wife as family there but lately been dranw to altona.got three kids 13 ,11 ,3 months the latter holding up our application somewhat or would have been there by now.its good someone started the melbourne thing as you need all the help and support you can get if youre to succeed out there and its always nice to have some one to share stories with at least early on any way
Emma's started a thread about people going to Brissy - and I got jealous!!
Therefore decided to start one for Melbourne (or anywhere in Vic s'long as you're willing to come into Melbourne for meet ups )
To start it off
Dan and Abi - ETA January 2009 (I'd come sooner if it wasn't for this damn fixed rate mortgage and needing every penny!!)
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hi tess here, were hoping to be heading to melbourne ie cooks point area in jan 09. all for meets might need a freind to bend a ear! let me know when and where and i'll be there love tess xx
My husband is a road cyclist and has a mountain bike and he rides the trails on his own and he has not been attacked by anything, depending on the trail its dodging the cylists and walkers with dogs He goes up the country and rides the rail trails with our son. Have a look on the web there are lots of them now. There are also lots of trails around Melbourne which are very popular.
That's good to hear and will probably be very reassuring for him! He's heard you need to get special insurance so you can get airlifted to hospital if anything happens, so any reassurance is good!!
Any chance your hubby would know where the trails around Melbourne area are?
Ooh! I didn't know you could go to a MTB club to learn about snake/spider stuff. My hubbie has been given some info on good places around Melbourne from one of the guys he will be working with (another Brit who moved out there a few years ago), but he didn't mention these club thingies. My hubby is a keen MTB'r but has been a wee bit worried about going on his own and getting ambushed (don't ask!) by a killer spider.
I can get him to provide info on the tracks if you can persuade your hubby to exchange for his info on clubs (if he has any)?
We're both early 30s too, Scottish though so again no sheep jokes, and should be out there around the end of September. My hubby is going to be working in Melbourne, but we would like to live out in the sticks a bit so are currently considering the Ferntree Gully area. It seems absolutely beautiful and there's lots of places for him to cycle, plus house prices are fairly reasonable because of the commute/distance into the CBD.
I will be a kept woman seeing as we've just had our first baby , so Ferntree Gully seems like a nice place to potter around in until our daughter is old enough for school.
We will be renting for a few years though so if the Ferntree area turns out to be too much of a commute for hubby dear, the other place we were looking at is the Mt Macedon area. Not quite as pretty I don't think, but we'll soon see!
Sure we will let you know about any mountain bike trails we find and clubs he did say there were some near Hoppers crossing way so I will keep you posted when I can get some information out of him LOL!
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HI Everyone, We are heading for Doncaster in Melbourne, there is my self 42 my partner 44 and two children the lad is 12 and my youngest girl is nearly 6, i will be leaving behind my eldest daughter who is 22.Doncaster is the place for us as my fella has a job to go to with AUDI as his apprentise who he trained moved out to Melbourne 18mths ago.We are ready to go,SOLD HOUSE LAST YEAR and moved into rented all we are waiting for is the Visa....when will it be our turn, hopefully soon, im starting to feel so frustrated and fed up.It will be great to meet up once we are all over there
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HI Everyone, We are heading for Doncaster in Melbourne, there is my self 42 my partner 44 and two children the lad is 12 and my youngest girl is nearly 6, i will be leaving behind my eldest daughter who is 22.Doncaster is the place for us as my fella has a job to go to with AUDI as his apprentise who he trained moved out to Melbourne 18mths ago.We are ready to go,SOLD HOUSE LAST YEAR and moved into rented all we are waiting for is the Visa....when will it be our turn, hopefully soon, im starting to feel so frustrated and fed up.It will be great to meet up once we are all over there
Well done on selling the house first and moving into rented!!! We're wishing we did that now, but didn't want to risk cursing ourself and having it all fall through. Now we probably will have to rent it out and send money back to top up mortgage
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Hi, we are Caroline (35), Jason (35), Connor (10) and Kian (7). We are looking at Mornington areas.
Have decided to wait and have rekkie booked for March 09 in Melbourne. Then we we get back to sunny uk will have family meet and decide if we liked what we saw!!! Have to go on Sponsored visa by looks of things, so not too sure when we will get out there. Hope to be there by end 09 but who knows.
Would love to get together with you lovely people if and when we finally make it on the sponsored visa route.
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He goes up the country and rides the rail trails with our son. Have a look on the web there are lots of them now. There are also lots of trails around Melbourne which are very popular.
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