Living in Sydney August 2003 - March 2004
In August 2004 we arrived in glorious Sydney. Our plan was to live and work there for the best part of a year. So, after nearly 8 months of back packing, we were finally ready to find an apartment and jobs...
Opera House
Harbour Bridge
And we found a place to live! $350 a week for our 1 bedroom apartment in Randwick, in the Eastern Suburbs. We loved it. Fully furnished, all bills included.
Randwick is close to Cooggee, and is a great hub for shopping and transport into the city. We lived above a doctors surgery, on the top floor of a classic sydney building. The living room window had a viwew of the Coach and Horses pub, which we refequently popped into for the odd schooner.
Our humble abode!
And our familiar view of the Coach and Horses
Our kitchen
One of the first people we met up with when we got to Sydney were Sarah and Alan. We had met them on a boat travelling from Vitenam to Cambodia and were excited to see them again. It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
Sarah and Alan are school teachers, and both found work easily in Sydney. One day there was a national teachers strike so they had the day off. Since Ant's and I were not yet working, we all went off to Pitwater, North of Sydney and went to the beach where they film Home and Away. It was cool, but the sunshine was glorious and it was one of the nicest and most fun days we spent in sydney. Kind of felt like we were playing hookey from school! Special mention to "The Hack". Alan, (aka bendy stick man) introduced us to the delights of Hacky Sack on this day, and it will live with us forever. Long live summer days of playing Hack with S&A. I must say though, I'm useless.
Me and Sarah
The Home & Away gang
Picnicing on Tamarama
We are also lucky that we know quite a few people from Morgan Stanley in London who now work in Sydney. We spent time with Fran and Lew (loving the tennis doubles!), Peter and Melissa, Pat and Georgia. Also, Chris Reynolds! My favourite ranger now living in Syndey, and I got to know my second cousin, Jeanette who also moved out there. We also spent a lot of time with Andrew and Hayley, whom we met in Vietnam.
The old MS gang in Sydney
With Andrew & Hayley
Me & Jeanette
North of Sydney is the beautiful Ku-rin-gai National Park. We hired a car for the day and drove over there. A beautiful park, with glorious views over Pitwater, we enjoyed the short walking trails which were all over, and explored much of the area.
There was plenty of wildlife. We stopped for a picnic and along came a huge monitor lizard. And, perhaps it was the time of year, but the trails were criss-crossed with enormous spiders webs, inhabited by enormous spiders. They looked like "Huntsmen" spiders - we surely had seen enough of them on our travels - but the webs were so large that we had to duck to avoid them. Waving a stick in the air was the best option for self preservation....
Andrew and Hayley invited us to go to the Hunter Valley music festival with them for a weekend. We stayed at Hayley's Dad's house and set up picnic in a local vineyard field which hosted the festival. It was fantastic. Plenty of wine, great company, and if I remember a mini darts championship in the garage later...
The 2003 Rugby World Cup
rugby
The Hunter Valley
Hunter
New Years Eve 2003
Saz & al
Me, Sarah & Alan on NYE
Our leaving party, March, 2004
With Chris
Opera House
Harbour Bridge
And we found a place to live! $350 a week for our 1 bedroom apartment in Randwick, in the Eastern Suburbs. We loved it. Fully furnished, all bills included.
Randwick is close to Cooggee, and is a great hub for shopping and transport into the city. We lived above a doctors surgery, on the top floor of a classic sydney building. The living room window had a viwew of the Coach and Horses pub, which we refequently popped into for the odd schooner.
Our humble abode!
And our familiar view of the Coach and Horses
Our kitchen
One of the first people we met up with when we got to Sydney were Sarah and Alan. We had met them on a boat travelling from Vitenam to Cambodia and were excited to see them again. It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
Sarah and Alan are school teachers, and both found work easily in Sydney. One day there was a national teachers strike so they had the day off. Since Ant's and I were not yet working, we all went off to Pitwater, North of Sydney and went to the beach where they film Home and Away. It was cool, but the sunshine was glorious and it was one of the nicest and most fun days we spent in sydney. Kind of felt like we were playing hookey from school! Special mention to "The Hack". Alan, (aka bendy stick man) introduced us to the delights of Hacky Sack on this day, and it will live with us forever. Long live summer days of playing Hack with S&A. I must say though, I'm useless.
Me and Sarah
The Home & Away gang
Picnicing on Tamarama
We are also lucky that we know quite a few people from Morgan Stanley in London who now work in Sydney. We spent time with Fran and Lew (loving the tennis doubles!), Peter and Melissa, Pat and Georgia. Also, Chris Reynolds! My favourite ranger now living in Syndey, and I got to know my second cousin, Jeanette who also moved out there. We also spent a lot of time with Andrew and Hayley, whom we met in Vietnam.
The old MS gang in Sydney
With Andrew & Hayley
Me & Jeanette
North of Sydney is the beautiful Ku-rin-gai National Park. We hired a car for the day and drove over there. A beautiful park, with glorious views over Pitwater, we enjoyed the short walking trails which were all over, and explored much of the area.
There was plenty of wildlife. We stopped for a picnic and along came a huge monitor lizard. And, perhaps it was the time of year, but the trails were criss-crossed with enormous spiders webs, inhabited by enormous spiders. They looked like "Huntsmen" spiders - we surely had seen enough of them on our travels - but the webs were so large that we had to duck to avoid them. Waving a stick in the air was the best option for self preservation....
Andrew and Hayley invited us to go to the Hunter Valley music festival with them for a weekend. We stayed at Hayley's Dad's house and set up picnic in a local vineyard field which hosted the festival. It was fantastic. Plenty of wine, great company, and if I remember a mini darts championship in the garage later...
The 2003 Rugby World Cup
rugby
The Hunter Valley
Hunter
New Years Eve 2003
Saz & al
Me, Sarah & Alan on NYE
Our leaving party, March, 2004
With Chris
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