We had a spectacular flight over Australia. Great swathes of bugger all pock-marked with the odd road or town. Quite an awesome sight and a great introduction to a new country and continent.
James met us from the airport and it is WONDERFUL to see him - both because he is a great friend who we have missed terribly since he moved here 2 years ago, but also because it is wonderful to stay in a home and be able to pretend to be a normal person for a few days.
We just had a few red wines on our first night and on our first day we headed into Sydney city centre for a bit of shopping and wandering around to soak up the atmosphere of the place. We picked up some proper food on the way home and El cooked a delicious pasta for dinner. It may have been slightly helped by he LLoyd Grossman's pasta sauce that we found in "treats from home" - a shop that imports English stuff. We also bought curly wurlies and laughed at the fact they had everything from marmite to black jacks and wham bars!
We then decided to head out on a lovely coastal walk from north Sydney up to Manly Beach, one of Sydney's main beaches. The walk was knackering but really beautiful and was very remensicent of Dorset scenery in a funny sort of way. We caught the ferry back from Manly Beach after drinking the best hot chocolate ever!
We love Sydney. The food is brilliant, the people are so friendly it takes you twice as long to get anywhere because you end up taking to random strangers on the way, the scenery is stunning, the weather is mild and sunny for mid-winter, it is spotlessly clean and basically Kieran and I have thought very seriously about coming back here for a year to live and work.
Saturday night was us going out into town for a few bevvies and so sample some Sydney Nightlife. It was great to be out as a person and not as a tourist! Suffice it to say an awful lot has been drunk in the past few days and Saturday night was no exception.
Sunday saw us having a real life Sunday: lie in until 11am, head out to pub, have barbeque in pub (you buy meat/fish and BBQ it on the bbq provided), drunk beer, played pool, then headed home to drink more and eat more and watch a video.
Proper Aussie barbeque plus a few tinnies!
El finishes off the trip with a sing at the opera house
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