TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Saturday, March 18, 2006

6:37 PM
Posted by jodi rose

bridge instrument under construction

very chilled out first few days in sydney.
arrived friday morning, straight to cafe gyulia (abercrombie st) for the haloumi bagel I've been dreaming about the last 4 months (with avocado and grilled mushrooms), then visited nick and met the bridge instrument, played with his baby curtis while he did some soldering, and came home for a later afternoon nap. not too jetlagged, more seedy like I've been out all night. had a lovely visit to jade buddha in a Wat around the corner on the morning we left chiang mai, gave lotus flowers and chatted with the monks.
watched 'what not to wear... on holiday' on the plane - very funny, surprisingly touching and empowering, and some excellent tips about beach wear. Arrived at sydney airport to find a sad reflection of my home town's priorities in the fact that there is no longer any parking space available for normal people to pick up and drop off friends at the airport - no it's all for limousines. And the airport parking was recently found to be the most expensive in the world (heathrow came second) so the only place left was the temporarily vacant bus stop. money privilege status, that's what it's all about in sin city. Still, there's always the weather - gorgeous day, warm and sunny with a slight autumnal chill in the evening. Had dinner at the warren view with j, garry and helen - watched the rugby 7's in the commonwealth games - extremely efficient sport, you can get through 4 or 5 games in a day. Always happy to watch the All-Blacks, and Fiji were pretty fine too - the only other ameliorating factor in football is the hot men in tight shorts, groping each other. Although one player had a nasty head injury when he bouned backwards off the grass, and went into a fit - really quite disturbing.
slept with the door open and crickets humming.
tried to go on nigel's syren boat incarnation in sydney harbour this morning, but already booked out, and can't fit it in tomorrow's schedule. sounds fab though. walked along the headlands at coogee, lunch at fideli, stitch'n'bitch with helen and julaine,
did some handsewing and fixing zips, now a quiet night in with dvd, couch blending and vege sausage casserole. not such a bad return home this time.