Heading Home With a final day spent at our favourite breakfast place, the Freshie Beach Cafe, and on the beach we started to pack up our kit to head back. it's been an amazing trip. With breathtaking scenery, laid back cool and a feeling that we'll all be back for more. To sign off here's our top 10 things (as discussed over one or three bottles of Aussie Pinot Noir at the last night barbie... 10. Snakes on the golf course 9. Melbourne's understated cool ...

Taronga Zoo We really needed another few weeks in this massive great country, hardly scratching the surface. So whilst the outback and rainforests would be the best place to see some of the locals, Sydney's Taronga Zoo would allow us to take a closer look all in one day. This was definitely an Alice Day, and probably her favourite of the entire trip as we left Uncles and Aunties to their trips to Bondi and fishing on the Hawkesbury River. We met up with Alice's...

Doyles on Watson Bay With a suitably low key New Years Day chilling on the beach and in the hot tub, the following day was yet another adventure to the other side of Sydney Harbour to the world famous Doyles Restaurant at Watsons Bay. Doyles is a bit of an Aussie institution, having been making glorious seafood for almost 100 years - that's a blooming long time in this country! We met up with friends as 13 of us headed out on a water taxi for some truly beauti...

New Years Eve With our separate trips to Melbourne and Jervis Bay done and dusted, The Magnificent Seven rode back into Sydney with tails of fish that got away (Daisy), snakes on the golf course( JC) and long lost cousins reunited (Marie). The Big One was approaching, New Years Eve on Sydney Harbour.... Probably the earliest start to any NYE kicked off with is us grabbing the 5pm Manly Ferry to Circular Quay right by the bridge. We'd booked a table at a restaur...

STOP PRESS: All photos now online.... Lots of requests for more photos so we're uploading as we go... Hong Kong: http://preview.tinyurl.com/7cl8y52 Australia: http://tinyurl.com/77l29xa