Well seeing as I have been here for about seven months now I thought I would share my life so far with all you lovley people out there. This may take a few different posts but please bear with me I will try to make it short.
Firstly thanks to everybody who came to my leaving drinks in London, I know some of you came a longway to be there and I really appreciate it. It was a good night with the drinks flowing and a lot of laughs.
Arriving in Sydney after a brief stop in Hong Kong it was a quick turn around, landed on Friday and was in work on Monday......jet lag was of course imminent. More importantly a place to call home was needed as I only had 2 weeks to find a place. After a week of hunting I found what was origionally thought to be a great place big garden, close to the beach and station. As it goes it turned out to be occupied by some....lets say annoying people (slightly stronger words could be used but lets try and keep it clean). I did however meet a couple of cool people there that turned out to be good friends, if not a little strange....ha ha sorry guy's.
As I arrived at the end of summer and the beach was only a short walk away I thought a bit rude not to visit the famous Bondi Beach for a quick spot of sun worshiping and the first time I wonder down there is a Skateboarding championship on which was quite cool, lots of famous boarders apperently....although I didnt recognise any of them??? It was all held in a skate park and old pool.
Skipping forward a few weeks music was on the agenda and a great show. Out at the Sydney Olympic park on their Australian tour arrived the Foo Fighters on their Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace tour and what an awesome show. With a walkway inbetween the main stage and a circular stage in the middle of the arena we found a perfect spot to stand and rock out. With a superb set starting with pretender and including a mix of old and new songs with an acustic set in the middle and joined by a couple of Australian local artists it turned out to be one of the best shows I have seen yet.
As mentioned before I was living in a house although a great house I had to move so the hunt was on for a place of my own, which is not as easy as it would seem with each viewing there are at least 7 or 8 other people there at the same time you then put in an application and wait to see who the agent pics. So after 4 weeks of looking I finally snagged myself a great 2 bed place just up the road so I was still nice and close to the beach. After looking for a house mate and not getting much response (its winter so not many people looking) I decided to live on my own for a few months until summer. Its a great place which has been done up very well by the land lord with wooden floors and an open plan kitchen / living room with a breakfast bar to seperate. Of course a big shoping trip had to be made to buy the essentials....big screen tv, sofa and bed. It's right opposite a park where the local team plays rugby at the weekend and you can just go a lay out in the sun if you cant be bothered to walk to the beach.
With lots of new things to do and discover, I wont go into lots of detail but some of things I have been up to have been a trip to cockatoo island to see some very weird art exabitions and I had a midwinter christmas in July with some friends where we had some good food and a lot of good wine. Needless to say the next morning was very fuzzy.
This should just about bring me up to date alyhough I am sure I have left a load of stuff out there will be many more things to tell you about I am sure.
Oh and SUMMER is now here....bring on the beach!!!!
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