Off to Daylesford for the weekend.

You guessed it – looking at potential homes. We drove by a few houses, through Spring Hill, Trentham, then back to Daylesford. Beautiful region. Probably a bit too consistently wet and overcast for us, however.

We stayed at Hotel Frangos, for sleeping, a dinner, and brekky. Lovely country hotel, friendly staff and friendly dogs (not part of the hotel, I think). The car park has an iconic metal gate, but it’s quite narrow, and we just managed to escape bottoming out on the dip.

Francis took precautions against the Italian meatballs.

Charging:

We arrived with just 6% battery (as predicted by the navigation), and the usual warnings to charge now, because it’s cold!

There’s only a slow (22kW) DC charger in town. But it’s in a prominent spot in the main street, which catches a lot of interest from passers by, and hopefully demystifies the whole EV thing. We also saw a Mini Cooper and a Kia Niro charging there.

It took about 2.5 hours for us to charge up from 6% to about 96% (our battery is about 60kWh). Did I mention that charger is slow? 😉 But it was perfect for our time to check in, have dinner and settle into our room. 52kWh at 35c/kWh = $18, for nearly a full tank!