We are coming to an end in Cairns. The last few weeks have flown by with Ian working as a kitchen hand in various hotels around Cairns, having realised that being responsible for nothing more that the cleanliness of plates is quite good for de-stressing yourself. Lindsay continues to work as a waitress cleaning up after dirty tourists! Damm these tourists! Two major tourist events recently. First was the visit to the Undara lava tubes, where many years ago a v...

18 hrs of flying, 1 hr by train, 4 films, 9 games of battleships and mucho money later, I was back in Cairns. I departed England in freezing temperatures and landed to find 31C. Nice. I am now an unemployed bum. Lins goes off to work and I go shopping. I like this life. We have moved into a new sharehouse appartment as Lins' old room wasn't big enough for both of us. We now live in a building with upto 72 others....and 1 BBQ. To celebrate my return, we took a r...

Lots and lots has happened since the last update. As soon as we arrived in Cairns back at the start of January we celebrated Ian's 30th birthday! Not with too much drinking though it gives him a headache now that he is getting older!! I made him hold a snake at Carns tropical soon much to his reluctance he agreed and had a pic taken. I took the cute option and held a koala. I think I came out the worse though Koalas are not cute they have sharp nails which d...