Thanks Danica, it was indeed magical. 

It's funny because my envy comes right back to you. I found Australia and Australian culture conducive to taking things slow, savouring flavour and enjoying the quality of simplicity. 

Maybe it's just the friends I had there and the fact that I was 'on holiday'. But every time I have visited that fair land I've felt the urge to strip my life down to something simpler and more exquisite. For me, it's a truly magical dimension - almost other worldly.