{"id":1009,"date":"2017-04-02T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T10:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aberexchanges.blog\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2020-03-04T10:04:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T10:04:34","slug":"update-my-adventures-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/2017\/04\/02\/update-my-adventures-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: My adventures in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s now been 4 weeks into Trimester 1 and I\u2019m happy to report that I\u2019m still as enthusiastic as I was 4 weeks ago. Truth be told, I\u2019m definitely feeling the pressure with all the assignments and quizzes but I don\u2019t let that drag me down, especially since I have plenty of free time over the weekends.<\/p>\n

S\"BeFunkyo, last weekend, a couple friends and I, decided to go to the You- Yangs Regional Park, not too far from the Waurn Ponds campus, where we walked for 3 hours. Thankfully, the weather was on our side and we got to enjoy the beautiful natural scenery.<\/p>\n

After a hectic week with two deadlines to meet, I got to enjoy another great weekend, this time going on a road trip at the Great Ocean Road, with many stops in-between. Saturday started off great with our first being a Chocolate Factory along the Great Ocean Road, where we got to see many chocolate-made animals \u2013 among them kangaroos and koalas – \u00a0so, of course, I had to get one!<\/p>\n

\"BeFunky<\/p>\n

Next stop, Apollo Bay followed by the Maits Rest Rainforest Walk. Both places were beautiful but the latter was just spectacular.<\/p>\n

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Maits Rest Rainforest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next few hours went by with numerous stops with the most memorable being the Cape Otway Lighthouse, The twelve Apostles, the Arch and the Grotto.<\/p>\n

\"BeFunky<\/p>\n

The trip took us 13 hours in total, by the end of which I just wanted to go to bed. The Great Ocean Road was breathtaking (at least the parts I visited) and I\u2019m glad that I have checked it off my list. As you can probably tell from my pics, the weather was not as good as last weakened, it was very windy and a bit cold at times but it was totally worth it!<\/p>\n

Until next time,<\/p>\n

Sofia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s now been 4 weeks into Trimester 1 and I\u2019m happy to report that I\u2019m still as enthusiastic as I was 4 weeks ago. Truth be told, I\u2019m definitely feeling the pressure with all the assignments and quizzes but I don\u2019t let that drag me down, especially since I have plenty of free time over… Continue reading Update: My adventures in Australia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13066,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,18,35,42,47,49,55,58,66,86,98,109],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-office-aberystwyth-university","tag-australia","tag-beaches","tag-exchange","tag-friends","tag-great-ocean-road","tag-happy","tag-journey","tag-life","tag-new-experiences","tag-second-semester","tag-student-exchange","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/files\/2017\/04\/img_20170401_135001.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/aberexchanges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}