Greetings From Sydney
HI everyone! sorry its been a long time since we posted last. After Perth we flew accross the country to Melboune where we met up with a friend of ours, Andy, who we met in the Northern Territory. We spent a couple of days with him before we headed off to Sydney on the train.
When we arrived we spent 3 days in the famous Bondi beach, though why it’s famous we can’t really work out as its not really anything special… looking rather more like Scarborough than a typical image of a sundrenched Aiussie beach.
We decided to Leave Scarborough behind and head for the city, finally settling in the seedy end of town, in a place called Kings Cross, which is a bustling mix of Strip Clubs, Adult Shops, Nutters and kingsize Cockroaches!… how does it sound so far??? We stayed in a guest house on the quiet Victoria Street, Run by an old half Mauri-half Red Indian guy who we couldn’t pronounce the name of so we christened him Squatting Neville! We stayed there a couple of weeks before we moved off into the city centre. We are renting our own flat, with bathroom and kitchen and tv (with really crap reception)
We spent New Years eve with two friends of ours, Jamie and Lynsay, who we worked with at Adelaide River. we watched the harbour fireworks from one of the harbour lookouts at Thornton Park in Balmain, where we had a front row seat and an excellent view of the harbour bridge. And obviously we had a few too many bevies! But we had a really great night, one we will remember for years to come.
Nick has worked briefly for a signage company, doing designs for a planned exhibition about a reservoir in the Blue mountains being filled to a higher level (interesting… NOT!) but the money was quite good from his Freelance agency and has the possibility of more work before we leave Sydney.
Chez decided she liked the idea of the lay-about lifestyle and dispite sending out many CV’s and emails with huge whopping porkies written in them, has still had no replies, but she’s loaded anyway!
Niks Mum and Dad have come out to Sydney for 3 weeks, and have been here for 4 days already, we have been to Manly beach and Toronga Zoo and today we are taking them to Bondi and the southern beaches. This is our first day of sunshine since they turned up, the weather has been suprisingly abismal since they arrived and we are debating wether to send them back home early! We had the hottest day of the summer on New Years Day, it was 44 degrees celcius in the city centre and was 50 degrees at the centre of the Sydney Cricket ground Pitch! Crikey Moses! We sweat a few cobs that day! Though as a contrast it was wet yesterday, with the temperature not climbing much over 20 degrees.
We are planning to leave Australia at the end of January to continue our travels, heading to Singapore, the gateway to South East Asia and China, we’re really looking forward to relaxing on a pure white sunny beach and having a dip in the blue seas and bays…. as well as the criminally cheap food and lodgings of Thailand and Vietnam!
Thats all for now folks, got to go now and meet Niks Mum and Dad for a decent feed.
Toodleoo
Chez and Nik
