Touring Australia is different.
For all of the challenges, trials and tribulations that come with playing international cricket in other parts of the world, nothing compares to the furore and pressure that accompanies travelling across the world to play an Ashes series down under.
I've experienced both edges of the sword: the triumph and joy of winning the 2010-11 series, sitting among the old wooden lockers of the Sydney Cricket Ground dressing room in swathes of cigar smoke with music blaring loud long into the night in celebration.
It was a stark contrast three years later, at the end of the 2013-14 series, when you could have heard a pin drop in the very same dressing room.
Everyone's eyes were trained on the floor in sombre reflection after Mitchell Johnson and Australia had their way with us for two months.
