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Further inland there is the magnificent Otway National Park with its highwire walkways and waterfalls and countless towns and villages that are the perfect place to rest your head while you road-trip arguably one of the best driving roads in the world (as long as you don’t get car sick as it can get a little windy! ) Nitmiluk National Park can be visited as a day trip as part of a tour from Darwin to Kakadu National Park about two hours and 130 km away, or as a longer stay for soaking in the scenery. The ocean-side Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail at Flinders Chase National Park offers visitors incredible hiking and camping opportunities, as well as star-gazing at its finest and seal and whale watching from just off the coast. By Marianne of Mum on the Move Margaret River in Western Australia is not only a beautiful part of the country, but is also one of the best quality wine regions in Australia.

If you travel enough, especially to countries where the food or water quality may be lower than what you’re used to, you’ll probably have experienced traveller’s diarrhoea, at some point. Travelan is an over-the-counter medication specifically formulated to reduce the risk of Traveller’s Diarrhoea. However, I’ll be looking to do everything I can to prevent traveller’s diarrhoea, whenever I next hop on a plane to travel to some exotic location. Lesson learned and going forward, I’ll be doing all that I can to prevent myself from getting traveller’s diarrhoea again – with the end goal of being able to eat as much delicious food as possible!

I thought I’d sit down and pen a few reflections, partly to work through thoughts I’ve been having over the last few months, but also for the sake of anyone who’s wanting to take a break from drinking and doesn’t quite know where to start. It didn’t take much listening or watching of my drunken friends to decide that drinking wasn’t for me. At this stage, I wasn’t drinking all the time, but when I was drinking, it was a lot. I didn’t want to be at home when work ended, so I’d go out to any of the many great bars that sprawl across Melbourne’s CBD for a drink or two.

You’ll see a lot of nothing If you’re driving great distances, particularly in some of the remoter states like the Northern Territory, South and Western Australia, expect to spend a lot of time travelling through a whole lot of nothing. It’s a really expensive country to travel in Australia has one of the strongest economies in the world, which is fairly impressive when you consider its population. You’re probably not going to get killed by a snake or spider That last bit is a bit of a downer, so I’d like to stress the point that it’s highly unlikely that you’ll even encounter a snake or a spider, let alone be bitten by one. In the last few years, there’s been a surge in national leagues comprising of women across different sports and they have been gaining in popularity (particularly our women’s soccer team, who are amazing and win entire competitions, unlike our woeful men’s team).