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...

Flying into Sydney you are aware of how much water surrounds the city. We hopped straight on the metro and we were in the city centre in a matter of minutes. The city is vast and very modern but has a timeless quality. Having the harbour hug the city, along with island ferries and a multi level train system makes for a very unique and cool landscape.We spent a wonderful long weekend staying with Peta and Dean and young Otis. The first morning was spent trawling ...