What a foul 'British' day, weather wise. Woke up to a grey mist over the harbour and rain, rain, rain. So heavy and non stop pretty well all day. Had breakfast in the hotel and then taxied out to Macquarie Park, half an hour away over the other side of the harbour. Quite exciting to drive over the iconic bridge for the first time. Shame it was in the pouring rain. Had a good and useful business meeting with a Maun distributor. Then took a cab back to the hotel, ...

Just trying to decide whether to pop down to the hotel bar for a drink when there was a flash outside .... Fireworks on the harbour. First a few went off in front of the Opera House where there is a big outdoor concert going on, then a 10 or 15 minute display a little way out from a boat on the water. Gorgeous and what a surprise especially after we'd decided the weather was too bad to stay round in Cockle Bay where we knew there would be fireworks at 8.45. Als...

G'day Australia, here on Australia Day 2015. Woke this morning to a very grey and drizzly morning over Sydney harbour. But has it affected the great Aussie spirit? No! Watched the view from our bedroom window for a while before heading out. There was so much going on on the water. Hundreds of boats heading every which way. Three P&O cruise ships are moored a little way out. The ferries and other harbour boats are zooming across the water. A big grey aircraft...

My breath is completely taken away. I can't believe I am here in Sydney. I'm writing this in our hotel room on the 29th floor of the Intercontinental. Our view is of both the harbour bridge and the Opera House, panoramic. Think we got an upgrade! Arrived at hotel at 8am after a decent flight from Singapore. Didn't expect our room to be ready at that time. Had coffee at the hotel then wandered out down to Circular Quay which is 2 mins walk away and is where the f...

Spent a couple of hours at the Apple service centre just round the corner from the hotel .... Eddie's iPad had died. Disaster. Fixed. Phew! Disaster averted. Had an amble around the ION shopping mall on Orchard Road. Everything is hugely expensive - many things more than double UK prices. Back to hotel to pack and taxi to the airport at 5pm. Love the trees that line the big wide boulevards of Singapore - very short trunks with long soaring, twisting branches a...