I made it, I'm here!!
Trip Start
Mar 15, 2006
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Trip End
May 30, 2007
Sydney,
Australia
Monday, June 19, 2006
After an unexpected extra 5 nights in Christchurch, and my most thorough questionning yet coming in through customs, I am now in the land of OZ.
Its been a good few days here. Sydney is a nice city. Its obviously really big but its great that it has all the water around it to break it up.
I have been on a ferry through the harbour to Manly Bay, out to Bondi Beach, down to look at the Opera House and Bridge many times (yes it is that good) and been for a fair few nights out.
England, what the hell was that performance all about against Trinidad & Tobago the other night? I had to stay up 'til 4 in the morning (6 if you take into account I was still on New Zealand time after my flight) for that
01. Lyttleton, New Zealand... Filling those days!!
. We got there in the end though...and I still have a sore throat. Come on you whites!Its funny, everbody here is complaining that its cold. Sod that, my first couple of days have been around 18-20 degrees, I'm walking round in a T-Shirt, its almost like our summer back home. The slightly worrying flip side to this of course is I'm now wondering what the hell its gonna be like in 6 months time when we get around to their summer!
My plan now is to head off and do my travelling around the country first for about 5 weeks, and then to spend the following 5 months attempting to make some money to pay for it all.
Its a wierd old feeling to think, 'I'm gonna be here for 6 months now, I'm actually going to live here'. Can't entirely get my head around it.
I would love to get work related to my career, that'd be the ideal, but I know its gonna be hard. If anyone happens to have any contacts... At least there appears to be a fair bit of casual work around, and I've got plenty of experience in restaurants, even if it is what I came on this trip to break away from.
Well, the weather has taken a turn to rain today but I'm off on my journey north to Byron Bay on the overnight bus tonight, so hopefully I'll be heading for warmer climes.
