From mountains to urban jungle

So we've now reached Sydney - Australia's largest and busiest city. Sydney is quite reminicent of London, but with better weather - so far... The transport system is complicated but comprehensive, the roads are crowded with cars and taxis and people seem to be in a huge rush. There are also tourists and backpackers aplenty hereabouts - but overall it's quite an exciting and dynamic place - quite a change after sleepy Katoomba.


We've taken up residence in the seedy part of town (where else?) called Kings Cross. So far we have taken in the Opera House (SOH), the Harbour Bridge and strolled around a bit. We bought tickets to see Tim Minchin (a comedian who we know from his Edinburgh Fringe Teviot days) at the SOH and it turned out he was recording a DVD - so you never know - we may wind up featuring in a DVD...


On a sadder note, we were due to see Nine Inch Nails out here too, but they CANCELLED at the LAST MINUTE. Apparently you can be as good a singer as you like, but a sore throat will get ya same as anyone else. We're still waiting to see if the show will be rearranged, but just now we know nothing much. We compensated for this disappointment with chocolate fudge brownie sundae - so the whole evening wasn't a total bust...


I have been trying to get all of the photos we've taken so far (the ones on this blog included!) put up somewhere so that you can have a browse through and see what we've been up to (outside of what I've rambled on about in these pages that is). Anyway, I'm in the process of uploading all the pics to my facebook account. I'll put all the links over on the right hand side once I'm done, but those with facebook can find me (and the pics I've done so far) in there.