The lights of Melbourne's outer northern suburbs look more beautiful than anything Michelangelo painted on any roof of any chapel tonight.Even the announcement that the current temperature was 10 degrees was met with great positivity.As we disembarked it was like being reborn - home the most underrated and taken for granted thing in the known universe.When we got to the customs desk the Aussie voice was the sweetest music to my ears and even sweeter we took about...

We got home after visiting Pete & Chris at about midnight and I managed to crawl into bed at 5:15 am as Charlotte finally nodded off around 4. I wish I had some ruby slippers which could have done in seconds what Malaysian Airlines took 22 hours to do, but the result was the same there is no place like home.I fell into a deep sleep in seconds also, and again something not achieved on the plane. A life changing trip but nothing beats home (and real Vegemite o...

Well if you ever have the need for a quick working antidote to excitement just visit internarional check in and passport control - they make metro ticket inspectors look like lifeline councelors. The check in girl seemed to find anything between calling "next" and goodbye a major inconvenience to her day including having to be assed twice for boarding passes. Then we cop a real miserable bloke attending to us in customs, seemed he got out on the wrong side of t...