We're still alive .....

For those of you not on Facebook, apologies for the delay in keeping our blog up to date. 

So what have you been up to I hear you cry, well.....

We have been working in Sydney for 3 months, temping as legal secretaries, in different law firms but in the same building.  I was working in General Insurance Litigation where Kate worked in General Litigation.  I wasn't so phased by the court work due to being a litigation secretary for 7 years but Kate felt a little out of her comfort zone.  Both firms were nice and we made some good friends from them.  They even gave us farewell cards and presents on our last days!

We were hoping to find an apartment to rent but ended up staying in the hostel for 3 months due to location (only one stop on the train to work!), and cost ($500 a week for a flat share seemed quite expensive).  Hostel living wasn't all that bad but it is quite an experience having 6 other room mates though most of which were workers too so we didn't have much of a revolving door of new people to contend with.  We were also fortunate enough to make some friends whilst we were there and even met some Brits, one of which only lives 30 minutes away from us!!

Sydney itself was a lovely city to live in.  We were based in Potts Point (near Kings Cross Station, also known as the Red Light District), which was walking distance to Circular Quay (where the Opera House is located), Darling Harbour (where you could see fireworks every Saturday night) and Hyde Park for a spot of relaxation.  Contrary to my usual alcoholic self back in the UK, we rarely went out drinking, apart from for a birthday and our last Saturday night in Sydney.  

So, since finishing work on 24 June, we flew to Darwin on Saturday 25 June, explored Darwin and picked up our camper (named Zelda) and drove from Darwin to the east coast.  We have had experiences of trying to put a bed together on the first night, cooking in a confined space and evening getting pulled over by the police and breathalysed (I was completely sober!).  We have been to Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef, Magnetic Island, we have been to Whitsundays on a 1946 sail boat, seen kangaroos alive (and unfortunately more often than not, dead on the side of the road), seen koalas in the wild chilling in trees and have met a few different people along the way, including an American teacher who is actually living and teaching in Italy, to a French-Canadian teacher taking 12 school girls on an exchange trip to Australia. 

Anyway, that is all for now.  I hope that has made up for the lack of blogging in the past 3 months.  When we next get signal, we will do another post of our adventures :)

Pinks out :)