Well the time is nearly up. The shuttle bus is booked for 7.30 tommorow morning to get me to the airport. I fly out at 11.30am and after about 40 hours of travelling I get to Glasgow on friday afternoon at about 2.30. I think I might be a bit shattered!! I have been jumping on and off trams like I know what I am doing and have even been down theriver on a boat, I have been in many posh clothes shops and even managed to buy some. (In one department store there is...

I luuuve Melbourne. The garden city. It has as many inhabitants as London but feels much more a small city like Edinburgh. The architecture is a mixture of grand old Victorian Gothic, slick stylish skyscrapers and modern funky unusual buildings. It is sophisticated and artistic in a kind of Bohemian way. It is vibrant and exciting and fun. It is multicultural but with a strong Italian influence. On the night I arrived, Donna and I had dinner at a waterside re...

Last week I was out to the Zonta meeting. Donna had asked me to be the guest speaker, to talk for about 20mins about my experiences in Peru, Chris's near death experience and my struggles with altitude sickness. I said that the problem with this particular story was that it didn't have a very happy ending. She said 'at least he lived'. So it became the 'at least he lived 'story, with lots of funny little anecdotes. Donna also said that if I talked about sex, I ...

Relay for Life Yesterday was 'Relay for Life' a national event run by the cancer society-the local one run by my friend Donna. Teams of a dozen or so members relay a walk for 12 hours from 6pm till 6am. Amelia (the new nurse at Redwoodtown) and I were part of the Marlborough branch of Zonta team and what we didn't know when we signed up for the event was that we also had to put on a song and dance act on stage in front of goodness knows how many people (not just...

The big move. Life continues on at a fast pace- lots of things going on, the weeks are fairly rattling past and the move to the boss's house made me start to think about getting one carload of belongings reduced down to 20 kg suitcase and a 7kg of hand baggage for the journey to Aus and then on home. Last weekend started with 'happy hour'- as usual it turned out to be more than that-held at Penny and Tony's house last week- it was their wedding anniversary- th...