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This is a guest post by Katie Oakes from The Tap Tap Bus. She is embarking on her own adventure with partner Richard across Australia and is a fellow MatadorU travel writing student. Luckily she managed to drive down the Great Ocean Road, which I completely missed on my drive from Perth to Sydney. Here is her take on one of the most handsome roads in the world.
Nice place for a silhouette shot
“Driving on the motorway isn’t as hard as I thought it’d be,” Richard comments, hogging the middle lane as cars zoom past on either side.
“You’ve not driven on the motorway before?” I ask, incredulous.
He shrugs his shoulders as another car flies past and veers back in front of him. “They don’t have any in Northern Ireland.”
We’ve just hired a car from Travellers Autobarn to drive the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. Richard, as the only male, agreed to do the first leg of the trip, keeping his motorway virgin status to himself. Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →
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Waking up late, we made some breakfast after spending an hour cleaning up a bottle of spillt thai sweet chilli, and then was ready to get on our way… but the mystery machine failed to start. Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →
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Meeting some German girls in a funky van on todays warm day, as well as another mixed european camper group at our first fuel stop, it seemed nearly everyone was skipping the next coastal region to make pace towards Adelaide (which was the great ocean road which everyone we met after said was the only thing to not miss drive wise).
Funky painted van
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For a good set of tips, see my previous post, and reverse everything mentioned: How Not to Travel across Australia.
However these are a bit generic and a given, you’ll see them everywhere, common sense really. But it’s the small things that you learn on route that can make big differences on a long trip. Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →
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