Mosman sunsets

We've finally got broadband at home so will have to make up for lack of posts.

We had a great sunset from the balcony the other day! Really beautiful. We're finding Mosman to be a little bit too quiet for us (might move to Bondi or somewhere after our lease is up) but this kind of thing makes up for it!

I love sitting out on the balcony, so peaceful :-)

Our place!

We moved into our place in Mosman yesterday! Really pleased to get in and i'm happy that Adam likes it as it was only me who saw the place! We ordered beds and a mattress to arrive yesterday, but the shop we ordered from, Harvey Norman, managed to mess it all up. Eventually, after numerous irate phonecalls to them, the warehouse manager brought us round half of the delivery at about 9pm. At least we had something to sleep on!

Got woken up around 5am by the cockatoos and other loud birds, but I don't mind too much yet! I went to a local yoga class which was hard work, but relaxing at the same time.

Today was really sunny, but we had to do more shopping for furniture. Managed to get a patio set, but still no fridge freezer which is going to make food shopping a bit annoying. Doesn't really matter though, as we've just put the patio set together and had the first beer out on the balcony! Watching the birds and the boats in the habour is really lovely. Here's a pic of a kookaburra sitting in next door's garden.Looking forward to heading off for a dinner in our local pub in a bit, it's about 20 minutes walk to get to the main area but not a bad evening for it :-)

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.

Mosman coast walk

We went over to Mosman on Saturday to have a look at the area for a place to live and to do the walk along the coast.

We took the ferry to Cremorne and walked about 6 miles around the coast of Mosman to Balmoral Beach. It took us quite a while though as we were wearing flipflops and the paths were quite rugged and steep in some places.


Really lovely area, the houses all over looking the small habours and beach coves, and the birds make it sound like you're in a tropical aviary! In some parts it even looked a bit like rainforest.


I think it would be a lovely area to live, very peaceful, although I'm not sure if the commute might take a bit long.