Matt's blog

Picked up the car on the Thursday from the local Avis rental place, wasn’t too bad getting it back to the apartment building, but I did mess up and take the wrong turning, no dramas though :) So Friday we packed up, left the car park and started heading west out of the city, that [...]

After a bit of a dodgy start, not being booked on the tour that we had booked and had a confirmation for, the tour place managed to get us on a tour with boutique wine tours, and then we were off on a full minibus to sample a few wines. The first winery of the [...]

Yesterday Fish and I did some touristing around Sydney, we caught the ferry from Circular Quay to Darling Harbour (so Fish can cross off ‘boat trip’ from his list of things he wants to do ;) and got some lunch at a restaurant on the Pyrmont side of Cockle Bay Wharf. Then we spent the [...]

We headed up to Nelson Bay on Friday morning, in the pouring rain… :( Got there just after lunch time, in the pouring rain… Sat in the cabin with a few beers, watching tv, waiting for the pouring rain to stop… Fish seemed to have managed to fit quite a lot of the British weather [...]

Fish arrived last Thursday morning, and I went to meet him at the airport after his 33 hour round the world trip on a number of Air Canada airplanes. Once back at the flat with the tour out of the way we got straight into the sightseeing and wandering round Sydney… in the rain! It [...]

So I spent a few hours this morning walking around where I live taking photos, after I was given a list of things last night by the relos that they wanted me to take photos of. Here’s the list: Nearest pub front door the building concierge zebra crossing restaurant nearest White cabs McDonalds Botanical Gradens [...]

Last night I had a video call with the whole family, they were all visiting Christy and Dave for the weekend and as Dave had recently got skype working on his laptop we thought it would be good to have a chat. So it was a bit like university challenge, me on one side and [...]