Day 2 in Cairns and the weather is fine! Had an extremely long trip with stop over in Hong Kong for a few hours, flights were pretty good though. We were jet lagged on arrival and managed to sleep for a long 16 hours before doing a little more exploring. So far we've been to a large pool (yesterday) but we got a bit carried away with the sunbathing and are paying the price. Tomorrow we're off snorkelling at the great barrier reef followed by the 'ultimate party' ...

Hey! we are back in the uk very briefly before flying out to Australia tomorrow!! just thought i'd update you on the rest of Italy! during the second week we did venture out from venice, on the Monday we went to Fair Verona, which was actually a very beautiful city! had a lot of fun trying to work our way to the city centre from the train station though and looked the epitome of the English tourists, getting out our enormous map in the middle of the streets! we w...

Bonjourno!!! we ve finally begun our travels! arrived in Venice and it was snowing but weather has been a lot better since then. Had some confusion with buying tickets for the water bus and ended up with many trips to spare on the regular bus!! never mind, we should really learn some more Italian!! Been to the big open space and up the tall thing in st marks square and even been artistic and done some sketching!! our cooking is pretty good at the moment (have eat...