We were feeding Clapham Common's ducks on a soggy Sunday afternoon in November 2002 when we first started seriously considering the trip to Oz. Both of us have Australian rellies and we share a love of barbecues, cold beer and cute pouched animals. Paul was even known to our possee as Australian PaulyD on account of his sun kissed hair and sing song twang he picked up on a visit to Oz 10 years ago. A trip to Argentina had got Siân's ever itchable feet itching and the flat in Lopez Heights was getting cold. It was time to travel to sunnier climes.       Then we discovered a round-the-world ticket was only slightly more than a return to Sydney and the trip down-under became a year long adventure. Welcome to our travels through Singapore, Thailand, New Zealand, Samoa, North America - oh and Australia!.