We arrived at Mike´s house in the afternoon on Saturday and very proud we were to have found it with no map! Mike was very excited to see Matt and we sat with Mike and his girlfriend Jayne and had a few beers in the sunshine in their back garden. Gem needn´t have worried about not having any clothes to wear to a swanky cocktail night at a Melbourne nightclub as Jayne sorted her right out! Dress, shoes, makeup, jewellery - the works. We got a taxi into town ...

We set off quite late in the day on Sunday 28th October. Lucy had lent Wendy a "swag", an australian sleeping bag/tent in one. On arrival at our first free campsite we had chosen on the way to the Great Ocean Road the campsite was shut so we ended up sleeping in a layby in a forest by the gate to the campsite. Not a good start and noone would have wanted to sleep in a swag where we were so it was a quick pasta and tomato meal and 3 in a bed before it got too d...

We arrived at Sydney airport after 2 days of travelling and not much sleep. We jumped in a taxi and got dropped off at the office to pick up the camper we had booked through a company called Hippie Campers. It was a bit of luck that they gave us a map so we made our way to a place called Goulbourn and bought a Camps 6 book at the tourist information centre there. It cost us $60 but we knew it was going to be a good investment as it lists all the free campsites an...