Last weekend Pete the Greek and I took ourselves away for a couple of indulgent days up in Port Douglas, which for those out of towners, is in Norther Queensland Australia.  It's a tropical paradise and I can tell you that even with the temptation of whiling away the days swimming in the resort pool, whilst sipping umbrella drinks it was still very hard to drag ourselves away from the 5 teenagers, cooking, cleaning, ironing and washing etc......yeah right??

Port Douglas is only just over a 40 minute drive from Cairns, the capital.  The drive in itself is stunning as the road hugs the coastline for nearly the whole trip, and so you start feeling relaxed and on holidays straight away...theres nothing like the ocean to bring about instant serenity.  And so, even though we were just missing the kids and the new non-housetrained puppy (Harry) and all the housework, we still managed to wind down.