AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just spent half an hour writing a postcard when the stupid computer decided it was bored with me wittering on and decided to disappear it! If I didn\'t know my Nan might be reading this, I would use some colourful expletives to express my anger at said machine, but will refrain for now. The compressed v...

Hello There! I'll begin with the usual apology for not writing for a while - we've been very busy accumulating anecdotes to relate to you all! OK, I believe we last updated the site in Sydney. So what have we been up to since then? First up we headed inland to the little known capital city of Canberra. Quite a strange place! For a start it is tiny and the streets are pretty deserted. There are loads of museums, galleries and historically signific...

Hello All, We've been busy border crossing bunnies since we last wrote and are now reporting from the frontline in Sydney. Our overridding feeling on arriving here was one of relief, as a 22 year old Ford Laser isn't the most sturdy vehicle in which to traverse 1000k of Aussie highway, particulary when your designated driver decides to spend the afternoon in a stripclub with his boss as opposed to taking out the RAC coverage (but that's another story)!...

Hello Everybody, Just a real quick message to let you know we are still alive and at large in Brisbane - but not for much longer. In a few days time we pack up the mountain of possessions we have acquired over the past two months and ram them all into our little motor to make the trip down to Sydney - really looking forward to a change of scene - and of course meeting up with Paul H. Made a few trips lately to get ourselves back into the swing of a...

Hello All, Sorry for the lack of postcards! We've been very busy lately - this time not with travelling or tours, but that dreaded and long avoided intruder into our life of leisure - WORK!!! At present I am working in the corporate headquaters of a bank (where I am sneakily writing this while I should really be getting on with a bit of graft!) which is quite mundane but pays much better than hospitality work and leaves the weekends and evenings free. C...