Bigger on the Inside

So we are back in Sydney for a couple of nights. We are staying at the Radisson Plaza, a very nice hotel indeed. We went to the Orbit bar which is on the 47th floor of a tower block. It is a rotating bar that takes 1hr 45 mins to do a complete turn. [...]

Having been in Australia for a matter of weeks an never seen a kangaroo I was beginning to think that they were a figment of A. A. Milne’s fevered imagination. However, last night we went out the back of the apartment to take out the trash and there were some. They weren’t to happy to [...]

Our last day in Queensland is much the same as the others. We have nothing planned except to laze around relaxing. We have just cracked open a bottle of wine and are watching the AFL final between St. Kilda and Geelong. This is a good game. AFL is a very entertaining sport, brutal but entertaining. [...]

Been really quiet on the reports of the trip because we have been doing pretty much nothing. High quality, indisputable nothing. It’s fantastic. The apartment in Clifton Beach (just north of Cairns) is excellent, spacious and overlooking the beach. After settling in we wandered up to Palm Cove where the nearest bars are. We had [...]

Yesterday we walked to Bondi beach. It didn’t look very far on the map. Funny that. However, it took a good hour and 3/4 to get there. It was in fact a nice walk, in beautiful weather; it just longer than I was expecting. When we got there we had a nice picnic. Relaxing was [...]