It was meant to be a long and "unplugged" holiday, far away from computers and her colleagues at work. At least, that was the plan until Christine arrived in late nineties Australia and discovered a land full of cyber cafés and a multitude of adventures to write about and email home. What began as a plan to let her friends know her whereabouts, morphed quickly into the unique and personal travelogue presented here. There are bigger and longer travel books about the enormous land of contrasts which is Australia, but few so intimate and revealing.