Waking up only slightly fuzzy headed, following the previous days romp through the many wines on the tasting menus of the Barossa Vineyards, we set off in the direction of the outback.Later that afternoon we were joined by Mark and Kate and a sleepy Felix and Finn to commence our family holiday to the Flinders Ranges. Off we set as a fully loaded convoy, out onto the open road.Stargazing, sausages on the barbie and teaching Felix the rules to UNO filled our first...

We arrived into Adelaide at rush hour after eight hours on the road, luckily with Tim navigating we found our way through the glare of the sinking sun to Mark and Kate's house. With such a warm welcome into their family home, catching up with Felix and meeting Finn for the very first time, it was hard to believe it had been over four years since we were all hanging out in Oxford together. It wasn't long before Tim and Felix were showing each other their iPad ga...

The Great Ocean Road was one of those iconic drives that we'd both heard so much about. Taking in glorious surfing beaches, koala filled forests and numerous small beach towns. Its one of those trips to take slowly and really relish. The road itself is fairly quiet and wide and great for crushing down.Bells Beach is where the film Point Break was filmed, a wide and vast stretch of coastline where hardcore surfers head to hit the waves. We took the simpler option...

The drive into Melbourne was a real jolt to the system after travelling along the coastal road, all of a sudden there were multi lane highways, two different sets of toll roads and a confusing array of signs. This inevitably meant with Bee navigating that we missed our turning for the motorway and had to take an alternative route, though we were just about managing without the aid of SatNav for any of our driving both here and in New Zealand (though Bee's blood p...

Australia isn't quite up to the standards of New Zealand when it comes to campervans, they're also more expensive here. We opted for a budget ride but longed for our old Jucy van, the clunky old manual gearbox would take some getting used to. As we bumped and grinded our way out of the city the urban sprawl slowly started to fade away to be replaced with dense bush. We'd been told to only drive the van in daylight hours, 7am till 5pm because we weren't insure...