We are so lucky! Francesca's friend, Katrina, has kindly offer us to stay at her place for the weekend and gladly we accepted. Our first evening in Sydney we went for a drink at the Opera Bar, possibly one of the coolest location for an open air bar, just on the waterfront next to theOpera House. I was breathless with excitement, I felt the same way I felt when I first walked in New York and spotted the Chrysler building. After a couple of champagne Fran and I t...

When we came back to Sydney from Cairns we only stayed overnight as the next morning we made our way to the Blue Mountains just 2 hours outside of Sydney. We chose to stay n Katoomba which seems to be where everything happens (?!). I actually liked Katoomba, it's a lovely village with a high street full of restaurants and above all great independent coffee shops where the food is good and the coffee is fantastic! When we got there, we went for a walk to see the B...

CairnsI am not sure how to put it nicely, so I am going to use the words of my wise Ozzie friend Oliver:'Cairns is a sh$thole so you might want to go somewhere else!'We have arrived in Cairns 2 days ago and at the moment I am writing while I wait for the taxi to take us back to the airport to get on a return flight to Sydney. Our 1 week of Great Barrier Reef has become a 48 hour of thunderstorm and frizzy hair thank to the storm Ellie! Beside the storm though, I ...

Hello there!we have been driving the 700 miles from Melbourne to Sydney and boy am I glad it's over?! We have split the drive in 3 days to take it easy and discover the coast, unfortunately on the coast there is not much to discover and you don't even get to see it from the Princes hwy.Day One: Melbourne to Lake EntranceThe countryside bored us senseless for a wopping 4 hours until we reached the loittle town of Lake Entrance, don't get me wrong I love the countr...

It has been 4 hot, busy days here in Melbourne, with Big Day Out on the first day followed by 2 days of Tennis and one of chilling. Actually this was the plan, but little did we know that the weather was going to go all extreme on us, so for the last 3 days the temperature has been soaring to a blistering 44.5°!!! I can't really say much about Melbourne though, the city seems to be a mix between San Diego, Palo Alto and (sorry..) Pasadena. There are some lovely ...