Great-Ocean-Road

29th May 2010 A morning of packing was followed by an afternoon movie and general hanging around in Starbucks. Although we were able to leave our big bags at the hotel, we still had to carry our hand luggage with us and had decided a few days ago that it would just be best to be in one place for a while. The cinema seemed like a good option :). However, we had underestimated how busy it would be and failed to get tickets for anything besides the Prince of Persia, which was predictable but good. ...

3rd February 2010 This morning our road trip continued with a visit to Port Fairy, once an early port and whaling centre. Andy has decided to accompany us all the way to Adelaide. I think the sight of the small station at Warnambool and the fact he may have had to wait a few days there for a train helped make up his mind! So all three of us set off in high spirits for a walk around Griffiths Island in Port Fairy. ...

2nd February 2010 Our first stop this morning was Avis to pick up our hire car for the next 3 days in order to drive up the Great Ocean Road from Melbourne to Adelaide. Having successfully retrieved the car it was back to the apartment to load up our kit and check out. With all the jobs done we headed out of Melbourne picking up Andy along the way, who was going to join us for the first leg of the trip to Warrnambool, and after a few wrong turns we eventually made it out of the city and onto the freeway heading west towards the start of the Great Ocean Road. ...