The Great Ocean Road, or the B100 to give it its official and less romantic name, is a 151-mile stretch of coastal highway between Torquay and Warnambool in Victoria, Australia. Touted as one of the best driving routes in the world we packed our bags, power ballads, hired a car and set off from Adelaide giving ourselves a week to reach Melbourne - over 650 miles away. The Great Ocean Road delivered exactly what it says on the tin; but don’t be fooled by the name - it’s not all sea views, beaches and cute seaside towns as we were expecting. Parts of the route are inland driving through rainforests, past waterfalls, caves, cliffs and over green hills covered in sheep. Indeed it was scarily English at times, the sheep that is, not the rainforests. Undoubtedly
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