Today when we woke up it was if the pouring rain had not stopped once during the night. Hmmm, what to do?
The day before we had bought two city sight seeing bus tickets, with the intention of going to Bondi Beach. With no other real options and an expensive ticket in hand we decided to brave the rain – off we went to catch the big red open topped double decker bus.
It was a very touristy bus, complete with recorded commentary by a Jules-Lund-sounding-person. After about half an hour, sitting downstairs and being nice and cosy, we arrived at Bondi Beach. This was just funny. It had stopped raining at this point but…the wind! This was one of those wind forces that tries its best to knock you over and happily blows sand into your face! As I said, going down to the beach was just a bit hilarious.
We ran down to the beach, took a few obligatory photos, and then ran back to the bus before it left again! We had originally planned to wait for the next bus, which was an hour later, but um….no.
We were on a bit of a good thing with the dry bus so we ended up staying on it as it drove all around lots of different coves and beaches. Then we hopped onto another that went around Sydney centre. At this point, Franzi decided to go up top with her umbrella and enjoy the view from there – she tells me she enjoyed this immensely and was pointed at by lots of people on the sidewalk. After all, she was a lone girl sitting on a very red bus with a very hot pink umbrella out in the pouring rain.
Back to the hostel around midday after a surprisingly successful morning. A bit of time for internet before catching our transfer bus to the airport. I was a bit nervous about this transfer – I had booked it so we had half an hour to check in but hadn’t really left “things going wrong time”. The bus was four minutes late… these were a very fidgety four minutes! Our driver was a weird little old man with a walking stick who didn’t look particularly fast, hmmm.
It turned out I didn’t have to worry at all. The hour drive to the airport was actually 25 minutes. And then, oh look, our plane was delayed 45 minutes. There was much eating and shopping and waiting – then finally on the plane.
After an uneventful flight we went to pick up our rental car – a little red 3 door Hyundai Getz. It is an automatic, which threw me for a bit, and it took me a a few funny minutes to figure out how to get it into drive. I also got a bit lost trying to navigate my way in the dark – we went around a big roundabout twice. Apart from that, we got to my Aunt and Uncle’s without incident!
Dinner was lovely, as it usually is here, my cousin is still adorable and it was lovely to see family. I also met the new Burnese Mountain Dog puppy Frodo. I was smitten in a heartbeat. If only he stayed like a small fluffy puppy forever.
Some looking at photos after dinner and then bed just before midnight (not before writing a blog of course!).
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