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Issue 75 / 2015
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Melbourne to AdelAide
And bAck AgAin
Mountains, emus, waterfalls, we saw it all on our road trip
from Melbourne to Adelaide!
Since we arrived in Melbourne, we had been told that the Great Ocean Road is one of the
greatest adventures that you could experience in Victoria. Most tours advertise trips but
we didn't quite fancy spending a couple of days travelling with a group of old biddies,
stopping off for organised lunch breaks and photo opportunities. So we took it upon
ourselves to organise a route to experience this with as much freedom as we wanted. The
drive consisted of taking the Great Ocean Road to Adelaide, starting in Melbourne where
we would spend several nights getting boozy, before returning to Melbourne via the
Grampian Mountains.
Following a brief stop at Geelong for a "pisshead pit stop" (alcohol supplies) we headed
on towards Torquay, the start of the Great Ocean Road, with nothing but the unexpected
ahead. The road gradually carried us higher along the cliff faces until the tree line abruptly
ended, and for the first time we had all realised why the Great Ocean Road had been
given its name.
After a total of eight hours spent covering beautiful roads through forests, open country
and small towns, we had arrived just outside of Adelaide. Our next accommodation was at
the Anzac Highway Motel. The complex looked as though we had parked up in one of the
sets from Breaking Bad. Making our way to the town centre of Glenelg we decided to hit
up a few bars. The bar strip was looking pretty lively for a Wednesday night, something
that was unexpected as the suburb was fairly small. After skulling a few stubbies and as
most of the bars shut around 1 we had decided, in true English spirit, to go on in search of
more alcohol.