As I was waiting to board the flight to Jahannesburg I realised that the run up to this trip had not left me with the same amount of excitement that any of my other trips had.
If you were to tell me I was leaving for England instead of Australia I would be bouncing around like a Kangaroo instead of what I was doing then. Contemplating what I knew about this remote and often unmentioned country.
I think the thing about Australia is that people tend to forget it is there unless they are reminded of it and even then they seem surprised that a country could exist on the outskirts of our World.
Here are just a few facts to bring you up to speed on Australia.
On the 26th of January 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip claimed the colony of New South Wales for Britain, narrowly beating the French who arrived in Botany Bay just a few days later.
The majority of the first colony (the exact numbers differ in every account) was made up of British convicts who received their sentence for anything as petty as stealing a dress.
Australia is the only country that is at the same time a continent.
Australia recently elected their first female Prime Minister.

Just then the plane started boarding and I was on my way to learn these facts and a whole lot more about Oz.