Dear the Hildrew Family Thank you for buying us the Whitsundays. We have just got off the boat this morning, hot, sunburnt and with rather bad sea-legs. The world is swaying rather a lot and we have only just started our first beer. We went and lived on a catamaran for the last two nights, sleeping out under the stars, sailing around in the daytime visiting beaches and snorkelling, looking at little fishes. We have been really lucky as the last two days ha...

Dear Simon, Karine and Hannah Thank you for buying us the roadtrip to the Atherton Tablelands. We did this on our last day in Cairns and it was really good fun. We ended up doing it with Barefoot tours because it was the highest rated tour operator on Tripadvisor. The tour consisted of being driven in a well loved, but slightly rough around the edges tour bus called Charkira to various beautiful waterfalls and a less than beautiful pub. The beautiful water...

Dear Ruth, Miriam, Simone, Nic and Lisa Thank you very much for your very generous wedding gift. You asked that we spend it on cocktails. I hope you don't mind but we ended up spending the cash on a drunken night out in Cairns instead. This involved lots of vodka, wine, beer, jaeger shots and more beer so we thought you would appreciate it. We arrived in Cairns yesterday after quite a gruelling night flight from Bali to meet up with my sister-in-law, Chloe, w...