On the 14th Jan we started our journey along the Great Ocean Road, we started from Phillip Island and drove all the way up to Torquay. This was a little surfing town and the weather wasn't that great so we only stopped for lunch and to look at the beach. In the afternoon we carried on the Lorne another small town and went up to a I repoint to take photos of the great views! We then carried on driving to Apollo Bay and along the way saw the areas that had been a...

After hiring our wicked camper van which was so cool! we headed south of melbourne to Phillip island. We got there in around 2 hours and first visited the information centre to get tips on what to do. It was around 40 degrees so it made walking around very tiring! We first visited an information centre to find out what things there were to do on the island. We bought our tickets for the penguin parade that evening which was highly recommended. Our first stop wa...

We arrived in Melbourne in the afternoon and got the sky bus to the city centre. We then took a cab to our hostel (habitat hostel HQ). We checked into our room and Emma joined us a bit later, we met a really nice girl in our room called Miriam and also another lovely girl who she had met called Amy, we got to know them for quite a while and then we had an early night as we were all so tired! We were staying in St Kilda which was just outside of Mebourne city cen...

So I left the UK on the 2nd January to catch a flight to Sydney. Sophie and I were lucky enough to have staff tickets with British Airways so only had to pay the tax for the flights! This did mean we nearly didn't get on and had to accept jump seats (the fold down seats that the crew sit on for take off and landing) but luckily when we got on board there were two seats available for us. We had a stopover in Singapore for a couple of hours and then on to Sydney. ...