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So I'm pretty sure everyone who will read this will know that the entire Manchester Bioinformatics BSc class of '09 (me and Pete) are going on a long glorified holiday. Just in case anyone cares what we are up to I will try and write a diary (bear in mind I am a scientist and so not blessed with the ability to write in an entertaining fashion). Pete has his photo blog (peterbenphotography.blogspot.com) so this will probably be more wordy and less arty.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Sydney

Though we spent just over a week in Sydney we didn't actually manage to achieve much at all. Unless you count spending far too much money on alcohol and spending days recovering from hangovers as achievements. Despite not sleeping after the bizarre way neighbours night ended (transvestite club, 5 person house party, lost walk through unknown Melbourne suburb etc.), we started as we meant to go on and went out. We ending up eating Hungry Jacks in the early hours... though our meal was cut short by Pete dropping a full large drink on the floor leading to us sprinting out of the restaurant giggling.




The best part of the of our time in Sydney was laughing at how ridiculous Jess is. When we arrived she had a job at a call centre but thanks to our arrival she quit... she just neglected to tell her employees that. It got even better, on our second day, whilst sitting on the beach, Jess refused to answer her phone when they rang her. It got even better, whilst we were staying in Bondi me and Pete got a days work labouring leaving Jess unemployed at home all day completely bored.




As you can see from the photos we did manage to spend at least one day visiting the tourist sights Sydney has to offer. After walking around the harbour, seeing the bridge and the opera house we took a ferry out to Watsons Bay to go for a walk around the nature reserve. What the signs telling you of all the wonderful features of the park neglected to mention was that there would be views over a nudist beach complete with man inappropriately touching himself.


Whilst on this walk we were all talking about how we hadn't really seen that many spiders since arriving in Australia and at that exact moment I noticed that there were about 25 of them just about our heads... Luckily we don't think that they were venomous.


Our only plan for the final day in Sydney was to collect the camper-van that would be our home for the next 2 and a half weeks for me and month for Pete and Jess. On our way to the van depot it seems that me and Pete took or jibes over Jess' employment record a bit too far. This meant that when Pete made one more comment in the office of the van depot Jess turned around and responded with the classic phase “Fuck off Poug, you’re really pissing me off!”. Cue one very embarrassed old lady behind the counter! Anyway we still got the van without too many problems and named it Ange (after Jess' mum so that we could make lots more jokes).


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