THE KANGAROO

On our trip to Australia we managed to get down to Tasmania, which turned out to be the most amazing place, with great food, cosy little villages filled with arts and craft people wearing felted hats in various shades of purple and also the home of MONA, the amazing art museum that I can not recommend enough if you happen to be anywhere near those parts of the world.

I had been talking about how much I wanted to see some kangaroos and koalas, so when we heard about Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary we decided to go and have a look. It was even better than expected.

THE GLASS BELL

Here is a snapshot of our current visit in Sydney featuring Jacqui's parents. Naturally, I was a bit nervous before meeting them, but as they are such nice people and have made me feel so welcome in their home I had nothing to fear. However, situations like the one described below will always come up at some point. So watch this space as I'm sure there will be more embarrassing moments worthy of being captured in black and white.

THE ACCOMODATION

Last weekend we drove for 2 days south from Sydney. We stopped halfway in Canberra and went for a visit to parliament and got a sneak peak of the Australian Question Time. One of the ladies of the opposition got expelled for 1.5 hours for insulting the Speaker and there was general shouting and booing every now and again. Entertaining. Then we went on to Melbourne and the house of a friend of Jacqui's from her student days in Paris.

THE COFFEE

We are currently in Australia, and together with New Zealand there is no better coffee-making people in the world, so one of the first things I did when we landed was to find a good coffee place to sample the goods. I also met some of the locals.