Feeling at home

It's (still) lovely and sunny and we are hanging out in Glebe, which is a very cool suburb. We're about to walk to Newtown. I think this kind of area is where I'm going to try to live. We just walked about a block down Glebe Point Road and passed:
- a cool vegetarian/vegan cafe
- another cool cafe
- a record shop
- a bookshop
- another cool cafe
- a macrobiotic cafe (?!)
- another record shop
- a Japanese restaurant
- another bookshop
I SO fit in here.
Had vegan lunch in a cafe called Badde Manors. Managed to get into a discussion with the waitress about cultural differences in coffee names: here they call espresso "short black", normal black coffee/Americano is "long black" and with milk is "flat white" (as opposed to latte which is the same). How, er...fascinating.

This morning we went round the art gallery of New South Wales, which is right by our hostel. It was a really excellent art gallery experience, lots of modern and aboriginal stuff, plus Chinese calligraphy and Japanese galleries.

Today we (finally) managed to befriend some of the guys in our dorm room, which is cool, although we were annoyed when we got in last night (at midnight! It wasn't even late! We'd been at a pub quiz with Rach and Rob which was lots of fun) and they were ALL in bed, and made such a total fuss (in a passive-agressive moaning/sighing way) about us turning lights on. It's like...this is Sydney! You're crazy travellers! You should be out partying!! But they do seem cool so maybe it was just a glitch.