A couple of days after we returned to Sydney it was Australia day, this was hugely celebrated throughout Oz - especially in Sydney. There were various events going on throughout the city, there were parades and loads of live music, all free events, so that was wicked. We decided to go to The Rocks, there were live bands on there, we planned to start the session in 'The Merc', a cracking Irish boozer which was highly recommended by Dom as he went there a lot - he ...

On the day of the road trip we woke up early to finish sorting things out and to make sure we were on time for the car. As it turned out we were quite early, so we went to get the car and the sat-nav :) before picking Jo up from the train station. We then went back to the house to get all of our stuff into the car (including the tent that George and Dom had very kindly lent to us) and said goodbye to George and the kids. After leaving the house, the first thing w...

We arrived in Sydney at about 7am, we were met at the airport by Georgina, who was putting us up whilst in Sydney, George was the twin sister of Christabel, the mother of a little girl Sarah nannied for in London for three years. Sarah and I had got quite close on a social front to Chris and her family. On one of the occasions we were at her house, George was there and when talking about our trip to Australia, she suggested we come and stay with her while we were...