beechworth is lovely, it has the old lollie shop (weathers not too bad out this neck of the woods) bright has some interestings stuff. and some nice places to stay too. the drive from wangaratta to bright is really nice (we did about 1/2 of it two weeks ago, and there was snow, lol)
wang's good too. got some nice craravan parks, more motels then you can poke a stick at. there is an indoor play center too that said we're 3 n a bit hours from melbs.