Three weeks in Australia, staying with four sets of friends in three states, with three nights to ourselves just outside a national park. The photographic details of a truly wonderful trip ensues if you have the patience to follow it all.

A long journey with a short break in the lounge at Bangkok airport, and other travellers going about their transitory business (3 photos)

Firstly to Caroline and David in Wombarra, an hour south of Sydney - a village small enough to have no shops but some wonderful ocean views. Caroline is one of Louise's oldest friends, and even predates me.

We arrived in the dark for our five nights. This is sunrise on the first morning, looking over the ocean and in their garden (12)

Garden creatures (9) The friendly ones - a pair of water dragons (3)

and cockatoos (2)