Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you…

We had heard rumours that Australia and New Zealand had their summer when the UK had its winter. We were expecting then that both countries would be hot and dry during this trip. As we arrived, Australia had a number of drought warnings, and there was a large bush fire raging in Victoria, around Melbourne.

We therefore deserve some kind of knighthood for helping out the Australian climate by bringing our UK rain with us. I can report that as soon as we arrived in Melbourne, the bush fire was put out by nearly a week of heavy rain. There are rumours that Christmas Day in Liverpool in the UK was warmer than Melbourne and that it didn’t rain there, which means we chose the wrong year to be away for Christmas. It rained in Western Australia when we were there. It rained in Sydney. There was a large thunderstorm when we were in Uluru. This is partly understandable, as that is a desert area and does experience occasional heavy showers. What was less understandable though was the English-style light drizzle which fell when we were walking around the base of the rock.

Even Adelaide suffered a few minutes of drizzle as we were being driven to the airport. And Auckland had the most English-style weather yet, during the wedding weekend.

Our luck must change soon…!