Week 3 of full-time travel - Busselton & Margaret River

 Let’s just say from the outset, that it’s a flipping good job that we were in a good caravan park at the start of this weeek!

Monday was fine: got my work done, then we went out to Dunsborough for the afternoon. We stopped at Clancy’s Fish Pub for lunch (which was lovely) and Steve tried a side order of their “fried mice”

No fried mice for me, thanks!

Then because it was a gorgeous afternoon, we  popped over to Simmo’s Ice Creamery. Gorgeous ice cream with too many flavours to choose from - definitely worth a visit

We had quite a late dinner that day because we had been on video messaging with Steve’s sister, chatting about our upcoming trip to the UK. We have been trying to eat the things we have had in the freezer for a while, but this time was not good…

I didn’t feel too good about an hour after we’d eaten and it just got worse from there. By morning we were both poorly with food poisoning - who knew that oat-based meat substitutes were as bad as meat if not stored correctly?! Well, we knew it now!!!! I put it down to the fact that the little freezer had been too full and th cold air couldn’t circulate properly, so not everything was properly frozen the whole time it was in there.

We have now gone through the contents of the freezers, and everything we have is fine - anything that looked like it had been there a while, went in the bin.

So Tuesday was  non-starter for us both.

The rest of our stay at Busselton passed without incident and ten on Friday it was time to pack up again and move to Margaret River.

I’d got a couple of hours of work to complete, for jobs to needed to be submitted that afternoon, so on the way to Margaret River we stopped in at Cowaramup, or Cow Town as it is also known.

Four and a half hours later, I’d finally gotten all my work finished for the day and we continued down to Margs. We checked in at the caravan park, got set up in our site and decided to go out for dinner.

Saturday was for a walk into town for a spot of shopping and a cheeky glass of bubbles. 

Rio’s bar is lovely

Cheeky bubbles while overlooking the Main Street

We’d been out until late afternoon and were on our way back to the caravan park when I got a message from my friend Kate, who had spotted us leaving a bar, and ended up getting invited to their place on Sunday afternoon for drinks and tacos. Kat and Rhys’s ‘place’ is a vineyard and it will be awesome when they have completed all their planned works.

Rhys brews for Eclipse Brewing, and very kindly gave us a tour of his brew house and tastings of the beers on tap - they were very good and Steve will definitely be on the lookout for Eclipse in bars and bottle shops.

Met some great people and had fab food and drinks in amazing surroundings (with cuddles from Benny the Sausage Dog). Also, during the afternoon, there were a few hectic moments when the chickens escaped and Kate had to round them up. Time flew by and before we knew it, it was time to leave. Kate and Rhys were such awesome hosts that we were so busy enjoying ourselves, neither one of us took any photos!!