Melbourne / Sydney While we were waiting for the taxi to take us to the airport the heavens opened and it absolutely poured! The storms forecast for yesterday obviously arrived a day late. When we got to the airport we discovered that our flight to Sydney had been cancelled and we couldn't get another flight until 3.15pm, so we're putting in time at the moment. Rose and Mike are playing cards and Iain is deep in his book - almost at the end, so he can't put it...

Our body clocks are really messed up! I seem to sleep for three hours and then can't get back to sleep. Iain doses off but wakens frequently. Today I tossed and turned, chatted for a while with Iain, tried to get to sleep yet again and then gave up at seven and got up. Made the day a lot longer, which was great. We had a leisurely start to the day and headed into town late morning. We've now tried / intended to visit The Victorian Market three times and that...

When I eventually emerged from sleep the next day Mike and Rose were at the gym (there's a gym and swimming pool in the block) and Iain was deep in his book. We had planned to visit the Victorian Market and the Eureka Tower as our contribution to tourism. We headed for some lunch, first of all, and then went to the Eureka Tower, which is the world's second highest residential building and the second-tallest skyscraper in the southern hemisphere. There's a sk...

We left our hotel in Dubai just after seven in the morning to be at the airport in good time for our ten o'clock flight to Melbourne. Flying time was to be fourteen and a half hours so that, with the half hour delay in leaving and the seven hour time difference, we were due to land in Melbourne at seven am on Wednesday morning. It was a good flight, again, with lots to eat and drink, all provided for us. There was a great personal ICE unit - 'Information, Com...