Living Abroad

A look at some cool places from around the world.

Every month we interview someone who has lived in, or been to a foreign country. This month we are talking to Sam Payne, a British girl, about her time in Australia.

Sam, why did you go to Australia?

I went to Australia last December to travel with my boyfriend and to see my family there.

What did you expect it to be like?

I imagined it to be hot of course! But what most surprised me was that there were so many rural areas, as well as all the national parks, the cities and the outback. When we drove through Victoria, I saw lots of rolling green countryside – I didn’t realize how diverse Australia was!

Where did you go exactly?

First, we flew to Perth for a couple of days, then on to Adelaide where we stayed with family friends. Then, from there we hired a car, drove to Melbourne and travelled on the fantastic “Great Ocean Road”, which is a road that runs along the side of the ocean. It was definitely worth seeing.

It was on this part of the journey that we accidentally took the wrong road into a tropical rainforest area called “Beech Forest” – a complete contrast to the coastline that we had just experienced! We were driving around for hours, and it was beautiful, but also scary because we didn’t know where we were going.