The past week has been spent in the delightful company of Hannah Ord, an old friend from school who did the sensible thing and emigrated to Australia a few years ago. Staying in her home in Melbourne and her holiday home a couple of hours away in the beach town of Lorne has been akin to staying in a 5 star hotel, only more relaxing and with yummier food, and although I'm excited to explore the rest of the east coast, I'm once again suffering from the reluctance t...

Just a quick update today, as I wrote a lovely, long blog entry in Port Douglas, which I promptly lost when I ran out of internet time :( After a fabulously relaxing ten days in Port Douglas, Far North Queensland, with Mum and Dad, I have now arrived in Melbourne. We went our separate ways at Cairns airport (where I amazingly happened to bump into Liana, a friend from school), with Mum and Dad jumping on a plane to Sydney before going to Hong Kong and then home...