A medical appointment in Melbourne today meant we had to leave the island and drive two and a half hours to the city. My gastroenterologist (Dr Virginia Knight) is a remarkable young woman who, aside from her medical practice has two young children and is doing a PhD, the subject of which is a function of the liver. She has a lovely warm personality as well as being an excellent specialist. In and around Melbourne, there is unbelievable bumper-to-bumper traffic, car exhaust fumes, traffic lights and density of housing and associated businesses, factories and shops. Both Doug and I were brought up in Melbourne but we couldn't escape fast enough, and it's only by necessity that we make a trip to the "big smoke". Rarely is it for pleasure. No way do we linger. Thankfully we can escape back to our island where wide open space opens out in front of where we live -- a grassed area, then the cliff face, sandy beach, Western Port Bay and the Mornington Peninsula. And to the west, a mutton bird rookery, then Bass Strait and the sunset beyond. Who could ask for more?
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