January 26 is Australia Day. There is a lot of angst about this date because it represents the day in 1788 when Great Britain's flag was raised in Sydney Harbour, thereby paying no respect to the Indigenous people who had lived here for millennia. As a newcomer to...

To celebrate Hugh's birthday this week, we flew to Melbourne to watch tennis at the Australian Open. Unlike any time we'd watched it on TV, where it always seemed to be stifling hot, this year it was COLD! The daytime highs were 18-20C and the overnight lows were...

The title refers to what was definitely a highlight of our time in Australia thus far! But like any good broadcast, I'll make you wade through less interesting stuff first 🙂 Our back bathroom renovation is now complete! There is a curious Aussie phenomenon where...