I was on the train this morning when Pat abruptely told me that this would most likely be his last week on the train. I obviously asked why and he informed me that he would be moving to Blairgowrie. I then spent a large portion of my day to point out Blairgowrie’s distance from… well everything!! Here are some quick facts about it’s distance from some places, they are all “as the crow flies” (and measured using Google Earth).

• 62Km from Melbourne
• 52 Km from Haileybury
• 58 Km from Murrumbeena

So in order to make Pat feel just a little better I have decided to quote some distance figures from my house to some places.

• 13 Km from Melbourne
• 12 Km from Haileybury
• 58 Km from Blairgowrie
• 40 Km from Gembrook

And to make Pat feel that little bit worse, here are some figures from our “country” property out in Gembrook

• 51 Km from Melbourne
• 34 Km from Haileybury
• 81 Km from Blairgowrie
• 40 Km from Murrumbeena

So pretty much I have concluded that he will be living extremely far away. We were working out exactly how he will get to school and he will get a lift to Cranbourne with his mum who works there (travel time* approx : 50 min), he will then catch a train to Springvale (approx: 20 min), bus to Haileybury (approx: 15 min). So all in all he will spend 1 hour and 25 minutes travelling, this doesn’t count the approx 5-10 minute wait for the train, and the 20 minute wait for the bus (which brings it close to 2 hours).

*Travel time taken from Whereis.com