Sydney One Last Time

Location: Perth
Weather: Hot

Well my schedule went awry once more when I ended up spending another 2 weeks in Sydney. Round at Paddy & Chrissie's gaf, not doing much really, just visiting the city, watching TV and getting re-addicted to various US/Aussie soaps thanks to Gemma.
oh! yes, one fun afternoon I got stuck on a train that did absolutely nothing, except wait outside Central Station for 25mins and then miss the station I was meant to get off at...oh how all the memories of London came flooding back. Although, as a consequence of this I discovered the local exciting Castle Hill shopping centre which had better shopping than the city itself. Also I found the West Pennant Hills express bus to the city - which instead of taking 1-10 hours to get into town by train, only takes about 40mins!
hmmm surely there was other stuff...oh I saw Wimbledon the Movie and my friend(and fellow extra) Amit in the crowd! I visited the Australian Museum one afternoon, which wasn't bad, lots of skeletons of dinosaurs and stuffed birds. Also did a weekend trip to Canberra to see Anne, Richard, Giles, William and Hilary. Richard and I ended up rescuing some old bloke who fell over in the Woolworths carpark.

Other highlights and good times...errrmm...

Going to the golf driving range with Paddy one Sunday arvo, been over a year since I've played golf.

Gemma taking me out to the legendary Epping Hotel with her friends. It's a legendary place because my tennis coach Ben comes from Epping and mentioned it once and their beer isn't bad either.

Seeing Melissa and her friends all dressed up to the nines for their 'formal' year 10 dance. Stunning was the word, could have a dig at English girls and say they really should get a clue about how to dress from Aussie girls, but perhaps I shouldn't.

Visiting my cousin Scott and his wife Larissa, that was pretty good. Hey! they're half the reason I'm here now, it was them that got married in Port Douglas last year.

Getting drunk a couple of highly amusing times with my friend Tim from Melbourne who's now moved to Sydney.

Anyways, time passed too quickly and I had to move on so I caught the night train to Melbourne. Felt quite sad leaving everybody behind, but as it happened this ex-homeless bloke and mystic new age woman ended up sitting next to me on the train and they cheered me up a lot. They were very good company for the trip and we had some great conversations!
We rolled into Melbourne after being delayed for about 3 hours, but at least that was better than what we were originally told about how we'd have to catch an 8 hour bus because they were working on the line.

By JamesReed on 10.12.04 @ 02:40 PM GMT