OK, I'll have been in Australia for 6 weeks on Monday. I really did mean to write something sooner! Ah well, here's a brief(ish) description of where I've been and what I've seen... My first week in Sydney was a whirlwind of tourist madness! The first couple of days I was suffering slightly from jet-lag but it didn't last long at all - mainly I think because on arrival in Sydney at 5.30am I forced myself to stay awake until 10pm. When I landed it was raining and the first 3 days continued to be wet. All the locals kept telling me how they were in the middle of Australia's worst drought in 100 years. I know now that they were telling the truth but at the time I thought they were taking the piss!
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