holwols travels: HOT

Hello up there in the cold wet northern hemisphere, hows the torrential rain? So in the land of Oz it's becoming hotter by the day. It's been around 40 degrees today- a little too hot for our liking, it's meant to be slightly better tomorrow.

SO Sydney is very much like a nice city at home, similar to London but a lot smaller, and less grubby. It actually has old buildings including Victorian shopping malls ( namely the Victoria Building and the Strand) which are really posh and spangily. It is also pretty clean and everything is easily accessible if your willing to walk in the heat. The only thing that is a bit discouraging is the copious amounts of tramps and odd bods. You'll be walking the street when some old man is talking to himself and another's asking for cash. There seems to be more here than home (Even though I hear GY is building a new homeless shelter near fremo) there are also more here than in the Dam which last time I went was full of tramps and odd weirdo's.

So the best bit is the odd wildlife, which you know is there but don't expect to find in the city, like cockatoo's, parakeets and some odd ugly bird who's name I don't know- lets call him Jeremy for want of a name.

So along with Jeremy and the others trawling the City streets at all times are the Bats. Bloody huge bats- flying foxes to be exact. They are HUGE. In the daytime you can see them hanging by their hundreds in trees in the Botanical gardens and then at night they come out and swoop around the city. Approx 7:45 at the mo. They're an amazing sight.

Ben has seen a pod of hump back whales as well- I was too lazy to go and meet him and so being the lazy moo I missed out. The only thing that we haven't liked so far in the way of creatures is the fly's. One of the first really hot days seemed to wake the buggers up and they were every where. Thankfully this seems to have calmed down now.

So in our last 3 or so weeks in Sydney we have pretty much covered the main sites- not that there is that many, but it's quite a nice city to have a wander in. So we've been to Harbour bridge and the Opera House and frequented the beaches of Bondi and Coogee a few times. We have also been to the grungy areas Newtown and Kings Cross. So we're covering it. No point of rushing when we're staying over Christmas.

We're living in the Newtown area which is the 'odd' place to be with grungy goth's and lesbians on every corner, but it seems to be ok and at least it has some life in it. We're both working in a call centre which is tedious but the money is ok and we can choose the hours that we work. They didn't tell us off the other day for missing a shift after drinking too much and over sleeping. He HE HE.

Can think of anything else to tell you all apart from its BLOODY HOT and we quite like it here so see you all never!