Xmas day in Bondi

We had a lovely christmas day with Adam's brother Matt and over in Bondi with some friends, Ryan cooked an amazing roast dinner!

Bondi again!

I went over to Bondi again, this time it was sunny and I really fell in love with it. The sea was such an amazing colour and everyone seemed really relaxed.


So we thought we'd try to look for places to live around here. The commute would be about 35 minutes into Central and another 10 minutes for Adam to get to Pyrmont. So not too bad...

We went back on Saturday for the official 'inspections'. This was pretty crazy. You get 20 to 30 people all turning up at the same time, there's just not enough property available at the moment. Bit annoying as London was completely the other way round when we were trying to rent out our place! You have to be there ready to make a decision on the spot and be the first to get to the agent with all the forms filled out, references, proof of previous addresses, identification and a deposit. Most of them will have gone by Monday morning.

We were ready to do all of that but unfortunately it seems you pay a big premium for the beach. We were looking at properties higher than our initial budget, but none of them were all that great. And hardly any had air con, which I think we really need for the summer.

We went over to see some friends in Mosman Saturday evening, had a lovely time with them and fantastic barbeque! They told us where the shops and things are in Mosman, so we like the idea of that a bit more now. Might have a look at that area again instead.

Bondi beaches

Continuing our weekend tour, on Sunday we decided to head over to Bondi. It took a bit longer than I thought on a train and a bus from the CBD, I'm not sure I would want to commute that far.

The beach was really lovely, and apparently good surfing waves! We did a beautiful walk along the coast from Bondi to Coogee beach, stopping at Clovelly beach for a good lunch of john dory and chips. Clovelly has good scuba diving, might have to try it out sometime.

Bondi walk

Coogee beach
It was quite cloudy but still pretty warm, I know understand how strong this sun is, since we got a bit sun burnt even through the cloud! Factor 30 everyday from now on!

We went up to Newtown afterwards. I think it is the 'shoreditch' type trendy area. Doesn't look too great but has all the cool bars. I'm not sure I'd want to live that central but will definitely be fun to go out!

Still undecided on where to live. I think I prefer Manly at the moment, but yet to see Mosman and a few other areas Adam has in mind...