Manly fish and chips

It was a pretty sunny day so we went back to Manly. Sat on the beach for a bit and watched
the surfers on the massive waves!

Then we went to the pub across the road for fish and chips. The best fish and chips I've
ever had I think. The fish was john dory, yum!

First day!

After getting to our new little apartment in Darling Harbour decided it was best to just keep going through to try to get over the jet lag asap. So went out to get my first real view of sydney!


As Bill Bryson says, having travelled so far, your mind almost expects to see the exotic. People riding camels, strange lettering, that sort of thing. But Sydney just seems so western, that it could be a european or north american city easily! Have to keep reminding myself that we are really in Asia!

We had a nice brunch on the waterfront at Darling Harbour (Carl what was the place called that you worked in?!), then got a day pass for transport so we could start to investigate where to live. this site has been really helpful for good reviews of local areas. We saw balmain first, which is quite suburban with lovely architecture - all balconies and cute little terraces.

Then we went over to Manly. Really liked the beach, it reminded me of Paignton in a funny way! Think maybe if the commute is not so bad it could be great to live by the beach!


Big cliche but the people in Sydney really do seem so friendly, from the chatty passport control guard, and the people helping us out with directions, to the young father and son who came over to offer us a look at the hole young Joey had dug on Manly beach. Apparently Joey was digging through to China, I suggested he could help us out and dig through to England instead, but apparently that was just silly.

Had some great news - we finally have tenants! We had been working so hard on the bathroom right up to 1pm on the day we were travelling (various disasters with putting up the shower rail!) so it was so great to hear that somebody finally wants our flat, not to mention the financial reasssurance.

Only thing left to do now is to find myself a job! I've been using Seek to look for jobs. Despite the economy issues there still seems to be a few josb out there. I have meetings with recruitment agencies on Monday and Wednesday, and a phone interview with a Ticketek - a company similar to ticketmaster in the UK, on Tuesday.

Going to head over to Bondi today, hopefully the sun will come out, it's been quite warm but not really sunny yet - although it is spring...