It’s confirmed. Travelling with Donna brings us luck. Our flight to Darwin was smooth and without incident. The boys were able to elicit useful information from a local – a beautiful, young girl flying up to see her brother’s race in the Supercars. Donna and I did witness a slight ‘Karen’ moment when someone was in the wrong seat but it was smoothed over as quickly as it began.

We arrived in Darwin and began stripping off jumpers and trackies. A lovely 32degrees. We retrieved our bags and signed for our car. First piece of luck – second driver without charge!

We arrived at the Argus apartments and lo and behold- upgrade to…the penthouse. Amazing digs for three nights.

We then quickly frocked up and headed to the Darwin races (boys looked very pretty). There were five races and we each had a race to choose a horse and then we all chose for the final race. Donna selected #5 for the first race – $150.

The next three races (Mark’s, mine and Wayne’s) were all fizzers. In the last race, Donna’s horse, #5 won again. This time, $240 to add to the kitty.

Finished the day with dinner at the waterfront and a couple of cab rides with another interesting local who told Wayne he was old and crabby because he’s been married too long.