Sunday we had a ride over to Gary's for a BBQ at lunch time. Gary is an ex pat, who has lived in Sydney for about 7 or 8 years now and work for Microsoft. My first visit to Sydney was to go on a sales mission with Gary and Steve so I've known him for a while now, and made a point of catching up with him last time I was in Sydney so though it would be good to do so again. Gary has moved house since last time I visited him and now lives North of Sydney up near Palm Beach. His new place is fantastic, and has a living room that opens up onto a balcony which has a fabulous view over the bay. Even his toilet has a one way door that lets you see out over the bay from inside, but is mirrored looking in from the outside. A little weird to get used to but fantastic all the same. After the BBQ me and Matt jumped back in the car and had a ride up to Palm beach, which apparently is where Home and Away was filmed. Unfortunately there are no piccies as neither of us took our cameras that day.
We had some great food and a good afternoon anyway and were unsurprised to find that Gary wasn't missing the London lifestyle in the least. Thanks again Gary!
Today Ann has taken us out for the day to show us some of the parts of Sydney tourists wouldn't necessarily see. We started out by going for Yum Cha in China town which was fantastic. You go and sit at your table and the staff wander round with trolleys full of food and you just point out the ones you fancy and away you go. Once you have finished you settle up and thats that. Very nice and very tasty. Had some of the foods I enjoyed more whilst in China which was great. No chickens feet or pigs feet here.... thnak god :).
Next we jumped on the bus to Bronte from where we were going to do a cliff top walk acorss the Bondi. The journey started out fairly quietly and all seemed well until about 10 minutes into the journey. At this point a woman got on and sat behined me and decided to make a phone call to her ex husband and tell him if she he didn't give here $7000 by Friday to buy a car with she was going to the police. This conversation went on for some time and became more and more elaborate as time went on. Seems the guy on the other end of the phone, Beppe, has been a bit of a naughty boy.... Seems his crimes range from Drug smuggling, tax evasion, oh and then failing to pay the correct amount of child support money. She has evidence of what he and his brother have been up to and if she doesn't ghet the $7000, no scratch that it's now gone up to $8000 by 10am Friday she is going to the police to tell her story, and then to the Italian Consolate.
Why she felt the need to have this conversation on a bus at the volume she did god only knows, but I certainly wouldn't want to be in poor old Beppe's shoes. This lady means business!
She got off th bus shortly afterwards and left us to finish our journey in peace. We made it to Bronte which was a very beautifull little seaside area which I suspect is not cheap to buy land in! We made it down to the cliff side walk and got some fantastic views as we headed over to Bondi. Along the walk we saw our first spiders in their natural habitat, along with a bloke I presume to be homeless camped out in the cliffs overlooking Bondi. Not a bad place to live I guess.
Bondi was very nice and we spent a bit of time on the beach and having a bit of a paddle in the water. Saw a couple of young lads trying to do some weird variation of surfing using what looked like McDonalds trays which gave us a good laugh.
After a bit of time on the beach we wandered up to the shops and bars and went for a couple of beers and games of pool while we waited for our 6pm dinner reservation at a Steak and Ribs place. We sat and had dinner, then finally made our way back up to the City.
One final drink at Opera bar was in order, and we found a massive cruise liner sat in the harbour ready to set out. God only knows how those things actually manage to keep afloat. It was so big I'm certain it wouldn't have been able to pass beneath the harbour bridge!
Well another day out done. Thanks to Ann for taking the day off work to take us out today. It was a good day out and nice to do something a bit different.
First thing tomorrow we head off for Cairns. Yay :). Looking forwards to that one! Will no doubt have more updates for you then!
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Mmmmmm.... ribs, they were great!
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