Hello again! After a four hour flight yesterday evening, we are now in Sydney for the last few days of our Australia stint. We spent a very relaxing week in Mosman, near Freemantle, enjoying the sunshine - although it was more comfortable sat in the shade at times as they had a mini heatwave which reached 36 degrees, their hottest spring day in thirteen years and the earliest time in October it has ever been that hot! We spent a day in Freemantle and sampled th...

G'day mates! We are still here in Perth and we have decided to stay in the area until we go to Sydney. We have booked for a week in a beach resort near Freemantle which is on the coast about 20 miles from Perth and go there on Wednesday. The pace of life has slowed down somewhat and we are doing more everyday things like food shopping, going to the cinema and just getting to know the area we are in rather than being 'on holiday'. Our last few day days in Margar...

Hi all. Damian is now 38! Happy birthday to him!! We are now in Margaret River which is a lovely place on the South West coast of Western Australia, about 3 hours south of Perth and renowned for its wine - can't think why we chose to come here! We spent our last full day in Hong Kong on Lamma Island. It is a small, quiet island where no cars are allowed, a pleasant change from the hustle and bustle of China and Hong Kong. However, true to form of the theme of ...

Hi everybody. Thanks for all the messages since the last blog (Ma & Pa D very impressive!). It's been great fun reading them all and finding out what has been going on back at home. Soo - very disappointing news about Joe Calzaghe! Mrs Webb's class - we couldn't bring ourselves to choose anything out of the cages. The bunny rabbits looked too cute! Everybody - yes the pandas were extremely cute and we will try to get some pictures up soon. The final few day...

Hi all. We have had a bit more of a relaxing week since our last blog. The pandas were great fun. In the nursery we saw the babies in incubators, the youngsters wrestling and the adults sitting and eating bamboo! We took lots of photos and we will try our best to get them on the site when we get to Hong Kong - hope that's okay Dan and Soo! Thanks for sorting out the Dunkley's senior but we have not heard anything from them yet! The boat cruise was enjoyable but...