Hello & greetings to everyone Australia............. and for various reasons the last 3 weeks have been the toughest so far, but here's a brief(ish) account of our latest travels. We landed in Sydney to pleasant warm sunshine and headed to our hotel in the heart of the CBD, just around the corner from Circular Quay, The Rocks, Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. Sydney really is a beautiful city and the CBD is a very vibrant commercial centre, very reminiscent of the City of London in many ways. Grand imposing buildings, skyscrapers and bustling crowds and, for Tina, plenty of shops. We spent some very pleasant evenings in Circular Quay and The Rocks, taking in the cityscape as it lit up and was reflected in the glistening harbour waters. Tina found it very "surreal to
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