Road Trip

Our Dream Australian Road Trip

20 August 2009 Australia's Places

Update: Sami’s blog is no longer online, so you can’t visit her website to read my guest post. No worries though, you can still click on this link to read about Our Australian Roadtrip: The Highlights. So no need to read this then…. You may recall a couple of weeks ago we had our first [...]

The Truth About Traffic in Australia.

31 March 2009 Australia vs UK

One of the things that drove me nuts in the UK was the traffic. The M25 has been a joke since about 1990. I have watched the sunset from my car on that road many times! Thankfully I have no idea what it is like now, but I suspect it’s not good. Traffic around all [...]

Take a Ride Along The Great Ocean Road

2 February 2009 Australia's Places

When we left Melbourne it was 35°c. We drove for six hours and when we got out at the end of our journey, it was 17°c. In old English, that’s a drop from about 95°f down to 62°f. We were heading for Warrnambool, which is pretty much at the end of the Great Ocean Road. [...]