The Great Ocean Road. Truly amazing. It's a shame that a lot of people doing the east coast skip Victoria, because this was definitely one of the highlights of the trip so far. Another early start (so much for not getting up early for 15 weeks!); we were picked up at 7am by our awesome tour guide. It was a really lovely small group, only 7 of us, and it was so nice not to have specific timings for everything. Our first stop was Bell's Beach, where we got rained...

A new country!!! Well...Australia started badly. We landed at about 11pm on 1st October - this was after 2 hours in Queenstown airport, 2 hours on a plane, 10 hours in Auckland airport and another 4 hours on a plane. We were tired and I was feeling a bit grumpy; getting to the hostel and sleeping was all I really wanted to do. So when customs refused to let my wood carvings from New Zealand into the country I was very unimpressed! Sooz and I went through differe...

A new country!!! Well...Australia started badly. We landed at about 11pm on 1st October - this was after 2 hours in Queenstown airport, 2 hours on a plane, 10 hours in Auckland airport and another 4 hours on a plane. We were tired and I was feeling a bit grumpy; getting to the hostel and sleeping was all I really wanted to do. So when customs refused to let my wood carvings from New Zealand into the country I was very unimpressed! Sooz and I went through differe...