I'm walking on sunshine...

Hello again

Sorry I've not updated for a couple of days but I've been busy doing things. Such as rainforest walks, beach walks, walking where the rainforest meets the great barrier reef across a white sand beach - you know the sort of thing I mean.

I went up the coast to Port Douglas and Cape Tribulation for a few days and snorkelled on the GBR a couple of times more. I finally found Nemo but I didn't have a camera so I couldn't papp him. I did hire a camera later so I'll be uploading loads of fuzzy, out of focus, empty of fish, underexposed photos at some point. The problem is I'm both short and long sighted (stupid, I know) so when I wear a prescription mask for long-sightedness I can see the fish and coral much more clearly but I can't see what's showing on the camera screen - there's a lot of guesswork involved!

In the latest news from here, I've finally booked my flight back to Europe. I'll be flying into Milan on the morning of 28th May, just over a month from now and then onto the UK a couple of weeks after that.

On Wednesday I fly to New Zealand for three weeks. And here's the ridiculous thing, I didn't really want to visit Australia as it didn't appeal to me that much. I really, really wanted to visit New Zealand and see the magnificent scenery, chill out in the small hospitable towns and bathe in the hot springs. What has actually happened is that I've spent about six or seven weeks in Australia (nowhere near enough) and I'll only be spending three weeks in New Zealand. Isn't life weird?

I'll be shipping my souveniers while I'm in Melbourne (before I fly out) and they'll probably arrive a few weeks after I do so it'll be like revisiting the holiday all over again.

In the meantime, people, make sure the sun starts shining in Europe as I don't want to be cold when I get there!