Giedre tyttö Ozista

Sydney is great!

It is 8 days since we arrived in Sydney and it is our 2nd week at work. So far we like almost everything about Sydney: beautiful harbour, heaps of white sand beaches, lively neighbourhoods full of restaurants and cafes. Although we go to work every day, it feels almost like holiday otherwise. We stay at beautiful apartments right on the Lavender Bay, I take a ferry and a bus to work, Kaj just walks up the hill. Unfortunately we have this accommodations for 30 days only, so meanwhile we're also going through an intense apartment hunt.

We had lots of space at our house in Auckland, so we're finding local apartments quite crammed and urban. Almost all the 2 bedroom apartments (even if they have a separate lounge and dining room that would equal to 4 room apartment by Helsinki standards) that we saw wouldn't be able to accommodate our surfboards and bicycles. We also have an opportunity to rent an apartment without ANY carpets this time, so we're discarding all places that have carpets... Add a quiet location and good public transport connections as the absolute must and our apartment hunting quest becomes nearly Mission Impossible?... I hope not... We still believe we might be lucky and find all of that in one place!

Oh yes, and what's the story with draught in Australia?!? Since we arrived, we had 2 sunny days out of 8... That makes it... 25% sunny? If this is "a draught", I don't want to see how "good rain" looks like! I guess Sydney is spared from the worst of it though... I just expected it to be constantly sunny and now it looks like Auckland weather has followed us!