Hello again. Another email from us had landed in your inbox - spammed twice in as many days, yessssssss!!! (Or has it? When uploading this chapter, a message informs me you have not been emailed of this update as it was within 24 hours of the last post. Dammit) So, we left off last time at the Gold Coast. Early in the morning, we packed up, taxi to the train station and a lethargic railway journey to Brisbane Airport to pick up our first hire car of the holiday...

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...

Pre-match build up So a big G'DAY to this stopping point of Banality, half way up the road to Jolly Well Pointless. It's the Lorna-and-Mike travel blog, and by george, it will be such a non-event, you'll all be tuning in every week to see if it's got any better yet. Our honeymoon! It's nearly here. Australia, with a stopping off point in South Korea. Blimey. We've been watching countless old episodes of Home and Away, learning as many Rolf Harris lyrics as w...