Among the huge amount of luggage we carry around with us are both the Rough Guide and Lonely Planet guides to Australia. Between them, they give us a pretty good idea about any location - if one is a bit weak on a particular place then the other usually covers the gap. Neither book, however, makes enough of a park in Victoria called Wilson's Promontory. It's about a three-hour drive east of Melbourne and forms the most southernmost part of mainland Australia. Lo...

What is the difference between Melbourne and any other Australian city? It's home of Neighbours! I'm not saying I used to be obsessed by the programme, but I did make my mum trawl around London one Christmas in search of a circular spice rack the same as Madge had in her kitchen. We eventually found the one in Peter Jones on Sloane Square and I still have it to this day. Luckily Richard used to watch it in the early days too so he was familiar with all the...

Our experience of the Great Ocean Road was like being on a tourist hop-on hop-off bus. As we drove along the road there'd be a short turning off to the right every ten minutes or so to see some creatively named coastline attraction. Over three days we made our way from Mount Gambia in South Australia to Torquay in Victoria. The first part of the journey the weather was cloudy and the scenery pretty dull so I slept for a lot of it. We stopped for lunch to eat ...