Sydney - New Year, fireworks, Katy and Paul, Nikki and Adam, Bondi Beach, Manly Beach, the Blue Mountains, Bill's uni, Newtown Thai restaurants and bars and retro shops, cute houses with benches out the front, funky, hip, edgy... Best bits - seeing where Bill lived, catching up with great friends, Newtown.

Melbourne - the peninsula spa, midnight mass in the cathedral, shrimps on the barbie, Germans, boxing day test match at the MCG, hot chips and beer, cycling to Altona and looking at pelicans, Daylesford spa and bath house, mini golf, lift home for random drunk australians, street graffiti, the lanes and arcades, Milanese hot chocolate, Saturday night on the town boozing with Adam, puffing Billy, the dandelions, koala bears, Roos, wombats, vegimite rolls, gelato.....