We’re out of the mountains now and have spent the day (and well into the night) exploring in the city! Surely no trip to Australia would be complete without a visit to this most famous and iconic place. We had a fantastic introduction to the city, by walking across the harbour bridge. We’d left the van Read more

A crisp winters morning was what greeted us today. Still, if the haze of clouds would only part, there was a chance that we might get some climbing done. Optimisticly, we set off to the of cliffs Upper Shipley, wearing almost every layer of clothes that we’d got.  It’s an impressive cliff and very well Read more

Learnt on the news tonight that the area of Australia that we’ve just driven through, has been experiencing the worst weather it’s had in years. Luckily, we got through unscathed, although we did have to dodge plenty of fallen trees on the inside lanes of the freeway! Fields were flooded and we were constantly buffered Read more

Discovered the wonders of ‘cruise control’ today as we set out on the open road, heading north east from Geelong. Travelled over 500km in the direction of the Blue Mountains, where the sun is rumoured to be shining! Set the controls to 110km/h and all we had to do was steer! To begin with, the Read more

Change of scene today, with the low cloud and heavy rain catching us up from The Grampians.  Set of in search of the famous surf mecca, ‘Bells Beach’. After a quick stop to visit ‘the other’ Anglesea, we parked up on the hill top and settled down to watch some surf action. You only really Read more

We’ve left the drizzly, cloud shrouded summits if the Grampian Mountains and headed due south in search of sun, sea, surf and sand… We found all three along the ‘Great Ocean Road’ after a few hours of driving through rolling, green farmlands. On reaching the coast, and it’s superb collection of crumbling sandstone sea stacks, Read more