Moving around..
I stayed in Australia long enough to find somewhere to rent in Sydney, I took a week off to move what I could from Brisbane (still a few things left to move, guess I need to come and visit soon). After that I’d been there 6 days before flying out, but that’s another episode.
So I’ve rented a 2 bedroom house with off street parking at Newtown. Newtown is a lot like the Valley or West End, just 10 times larger than either. There was about 60 people at the inspection and I was luckily (well it wasn’t luck) fully prepared with a completed application with cover letter and written references.
A fellow from our office is packing up and moving back to England, so it was very convenient that he had most all the furniture and white goods I needed for sale.
I decided to drive down the pacific highway rather than the new england. I figured that now there is an hour taken off the leg to Byron it’s probably comparable. It is a more interesting drive, although the little towns that make you drop to 50k’s is a bit over the top, I know they are trying to get some money into their local economy, but screw them for making me slow down, I’ll spend my money somewhere that doesn’t selfishly slow down the the highway. I guess without stopping for a truck that caught fire, it would have been about 11 hours.
So the good news for everybody is I have a spare room and spare bed, a spare key. The house is 320m from Macdonaldtown train station which is 2 stops from central. The nearest pub (excluding the Newtown which closed its doors – and was gay anyway) is the Marlborough which is even closer than the train station at 195m walk.
So there’s no excuse to not visit.
Anyway, next episode is Cairo, I’m here now, more later.
