Right then - an update. Apologies for the lack of communication from our end. Internet access has either been desperately shoddy or desperately crap, and we've been spending a fair amount of time checking out cheapest hotels, flights and car hire etc. And most internet cafe memory card readers dont work either, so having a problem uploading photos. We'll try to get some online in due course... Despite the location attached to this blog, we are far from Sydney. ...

So we're in Sydney. A happily uneventful and dull pair of long haul flights, with a brief sojourn around Incheon Airport in Seoul were most satisfactory. Asiana Airlines were very good, and Koreans are obsessed with cute babies (a pleasure intitially to be inundated with cooing South Koreans peering into the buggy - tiresome after the 53rd or so time...) Anyway, the flights were fine, and Isabella was as good as gold. Struck up a nice rapport with another Britis...