The Great Ocean Road comes to its end too soon. What a drive…The remainder of the coastal road between Port Campbell and the South Australian border is somewhat less impressive, crossing as it does wide expanses of featureless agricultural land and large industrial towns such as Warrnambool. The rather tedious drive is spiced up, if that’s the correct word, by huge wind farms and a gargantuan cheese factory, complete with cheese museum. Not very much to go on… We spend a night in Nelson, a small town a few miles to the east of the Victoria-South Australia border. We’ve been driving for four days now and we have crossed barely half of Victoria lengthwise - the concept of “distance” here in Australia is something quite different from what we’re used to. Although Victoria is, indeed, Australia’s
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