Claire and I decided to take my mum and dad, who are over from London, out for a drive into Victoria's countryside for a day trip. Our choice of pretty little country towns has been reduced quite a lot by the bush fires, but we happily headed out north-west from Melbourne to 'Australia's spa capital' - Daylesford, and its little sister town Hepburn Springs.
Based around natural springs, Dayleford is a busy, pretty, country town. It also seems to have a disproportionate number of gay men and lesbians in its community. Though a few of my gay friends have expressed an interest in both saunas and watersports I wasn't aware of spas being a particularly gay activity. Its a really nice place. And probably Australia's gayest town.
The number of rainbow flags out this particular weekend gave me the first hint that something else was going on. Then I found a brochure for
Chillout Festival Daylesford - this is a 'thousands of topless men in a field, drink, drugs, dance music' kind of festival. This seemed more a 'stay at a hotel, mooch around town, eat, shop at ye olde collectables store, and sit back with a little bit of live entertainment in the evenings if you can be bothered' kind of festival. It blended in to the point that I don't think my mum and dad noticed or cared.
We all had a lovely day out, eating, wandering around the Hepburn Springs reserve (photos above), and Amelie was certainly chilled out.
Based around natural springs, Dayleford is a busy, pretty, country town. It also seems to have a disproportionate number of gay men and lesbians in its community. Though a few of my gay friends have expressed an interest in both saunas and watersports I wasn't aware of spas being a particularly gay activity. Its a really nice place. And probably Australia's gayest town.
The number of rainbow flags out this particular weekend gave me the first hint that something else was going on. Then I found a brochure for Chillout Festival Daylesford - this is a 'thousands of topless men in a field, drink, drugs, dance music' kind of festival. This seemed more a 'stay at a hotel, mooch around town, eat, shop at ye olde collectables store, and sit back with a little bit of live entertainment in the evenings if you can be bothered' kind of festival. It blended in to the point that I don't think my mum and dad noticed or cared.
We all had a lovely day out, eating, wandering around the Hepburn Springs reserve (photos above), and Amelie was certainly chilled out.
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I loved this post - it reminded me of the time I accidentally took my mum and dad to a very gay pub in Earls Court and dad tried really hard to look as though he wasn't bothered but felt the need to button his anorak all the way up to the neck.
Amelie's looking great x
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