<span style="color: #800040; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">We have returned from our visit to the colonies (Australia and USA). Our 4 weeks were broken up into 4 sections. We spent one week with our friends Ian and Sue in Queensland, a few days in Sydney, a week with Jane's sister, Ruth, in Tasmania and finally a week with Steve's brother, Clive, in San Francisco.</span>

<span style="color: #800040; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><img class="alignright" style="border: 1px solid black;" alt="" src="../images/postmantrack.jpg" width="28" height="30" border="1" /><span style="color: #800080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Ian and Sue's home, an hour North of Brisbane, was our home for a week. We felt completely relaxed on their 40 acre plot.</span></span>

<span style="color: #800040; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Any visit to Sydney would not be complete without visiting the Opera House. </span><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><a href="../sydney.htm">See more Sydney pictures</a></span>

<span style="color: #800040; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Tasmania must be one of the most unspoilt areas in the world. Wine glass bay pictured here is only accessible by walking over a steep ridge for one and half hours. <span style="color: #800040; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><a href="../tasmania.htm">See more Tasmania pictures</a></span></span>

<span style="color: #800040; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">San Francisco is a city of many charms, and Steve's brother helped us to fit into city life very quickly .</span><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><a href="../sanfrancisco.htm">See more San Francisco pictures</a></span>
<p align="left"><span style="color: #800040; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">We were greeted with a powdery layer of snow on our arrival home. At least the skies were blue even if the temperatures remained below freezing for several days.</span></p>