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...