Day Six (Australia Day) Arrived in Alice this morning to 40degree heat in the shade and glaring sunshine. Fabulous, but very very hot. The accomodation provided is ok, if basic and somewhat resembles a hall of residance but at least it has air con!!! The flight from Melbourne was easy, amazingly I spent the last 2 hours looking out of the window at red sand which seemed to stretch forever. I think I had forgotten just how big Australia is! Yesterday I was tr...

Day 3 BBQ last night was great - very australian!!! Today we headed into the city to the new sky-tower edge experience. Essentially, it's a 300m tall building (the tallest residential building in the world) which you ascend by lift (42 seconds to cover 88 floors!) to look out over Melbourne. The weather was fabulous which meant the views were spectacular, but the "unique selling point" is the "edge" - a glass box which moves to 3m outside t...

Day 1/2 Have arrived safely in Melbourne, the sun is shining and it's 34degrees outside... now I remember why I came! Kat is throwing a "barbie"in my honour this evening The flight has it's own amusing story... involving two massively obese people on honeymoon, me getting squashed and a free upgrade. Suffice to say that I nearly had to spend a 13hour flight to Singapore sat between two 30stone people on honeymoon (they were too large to sit next to ea...