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Less than two weeks into 2014, and I have completed my first New Year's resolution. On Thursday I climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It cost my over $300 because I booked it 3 days before, but it was worth every penny cent. 

I have also read (or technically finished reading) two of the books on my list of books to read this year: Better than Fiction, and Because A White Man'll Never Do It. Of these, Better than Fiction was a free download from a Starbucks iTunes code. And as I write this, I'm standing in a queue to a free bouncy castle in Hyde Park in the city of Sydney. Not a bouncy castle, but a bouncy Stonehenge.

For 2 weeks leading up to Australia Day, Sydney is having a festival. A festival of music, theatre, performance art, magic. And in Festival Village, the home of it all, sits Sacrilege. You might remember it from the greatest games of all time, in 2012.  A massive, inflatable, bouncy Stonehenge. And as the evening sun peaks through the clouds, it looks incredible. And the bouncers look like they are having so much fun.

I'm in the queue as I type this on my phone. I need the loo, and no doubt this is going to impact on my bounce -ability, but you could not stop me if you tried. I am almost in tears from the sheer enormity of what I'm about to do. 

Ha. The sheer enormity. Am I talking about the inflatable wonder of the world or the decision I've come to about moving on? It feels like both. 
My plan is now Melbourne for February, Adelaide for March, before back to Sydney briefly before my adventures with my mother to Uluru and the Whitsundays. And then into the unknown again. The sheer enormity of the unknown. 

Without trying to sound pious, I am already changed from the person I was when I left England. There is something so liberating about travelling. Apart from the actual, real, financial implications, it's like getting free entry into new worlds. And it is so freaking awesome.