Year of the Rabbit becomes 'Year of the Panda' in Oz

This year, my wife Ellen and I are spending the lunar new year with a pair of giant pandas.

We're not traveling to Sichuan province to visit them, though. Instead, we sought out the company of Wang Wang and Funi, a pair of giant pandas on loan from China at the Adelaide Zoo, in South Australia.

The Year of the Rabbit has rather caught me on the hop, because when I booked our holiday, I was looking at the wrong calendar. I thought we'd be back in China for the start of Spring Festival and avoid all the travel rush.