bondi

(Look, it's proof that we really are in Sydney)



I think this is Bondi beach.


Vic and I just got back from having lovely lunch with some friends of uncle Andrew, Tim and Cheryl. They took us to eat at this place in Mosman Bay (which is a suburb on the north coast of the harbour) where we had delicious pizza and lots of wine on a terrace overlooking the sea. So lovely! They are really cool people. (It's interesting meeting fun adults who aren't relatives).

Very nice relaxing sunday afternoon.


Yesterday we had a day of strenuous walking in the burning sun from Bondi beach (amazing, huge, sandy beach, lots of surfers, not as tacky or crowded as we expected) to Coogee beach and then to Rachel and Robs' house. I was wearing lots of suncream and didn't get burnt, but I didn't take a hat and by the time we got to Rach's I was feeling distinctly weird in a mild too-much-sun way. (I'm avoiding using the term sunstroke). I always get itchy in the sun (I'm like, allergic, in a really geeky way) but I was taking anti-histamines to deal with that, whereas I should probably have just...gone inside. Spent the whole early part of the evening curled up in a rocking chair at Rachel's, feeling freezing cold, shivery and feverish and unable to participate much in conversation, although after dinner (Rachel cooked amazing risotto) I started to normalise.

We went back to our dorm and managed to drink a litre of wine between us, whilst not doing very much. There's lots of new guys - blonde, German surfers. What fun.

Oh yeah, something that I forgot to mention the other day: we went to an open-mic night here in Sydney and Vic sang!! It was so much fun. She's an amazing singer, but I hadn't heard her sing anything for ages and was really scared and nervous...but it was great. She sang Joni Mitchell's Blue. It was lovely, aside from the stupid drunk men trying to talk over her. (I "sshh"d them lots).