Our Shoes Full of Feet

After spending four months living in the deceptively cold and capricious weather of Melbourne, arriving in Cairns was a bit of a shock to the system. Alighting the plane, I finally started to believe that maybe Australia being hot wasn’t a myth spread by the tourism industry after all. The extreme heat of Cairns was actually a (very warm) breath of fresh air and is exactly what we needed to get ourselves back to feeling like intrepid travellers again. Me standing on our apartment balcony in the sweltering morning heat Our first full day in Cairns was spent visiting the Kuranda Rainforest. As the village of Kuranda is 1,000 feet above Cairns, we had to take a cable car high above the World Heritage rainforest to get there. It was my first ever time riding a cable car and I was a little nervous, but it was definitely worth it. In the cable car (Skyrail) up to Kuranda On our way up to Kuranda Village, the cable cars let us off at two different parts of the rainforest....

Exciting news! After four months living in Melbourne, six weeks working in home insurance and one miraculous eye recovery, we are back on the road again! For those of you who read my last post back in November and are interested in hearing how I’m getting on with the eye situation, you will be pleased to know that I am doing a LOT better! I’m still on drops six times a day and attending hospital appointments every couple of weeks, but for the past couple of months, my eye has been looking and feeling completely better! As I’m aware of how serious the infection is, and how it can affect a lot of sufferers for well over a year, I feel so unbelievably fortunate and grateful that I managed to recover in just three months. A lot of people can lose their vision (or even their eye completely!) from acanthamoeba keratitis; so, if not being able to wear eye make-up and being stuck as a glasses wearer for a while is the worst thing to come of this, then I count myself very lucky indeed! (Al...