As the title says — I don’t use this blog! :-)

It was pretty much just an exercise to see if I could integrate a Wordpress blog into an existing site. I think it turned out okay!

Well, I’m finally here !

I haven’t updated this since arriving, partly because I’ve been on Facebook pretty often, and partly cos I’ve been sleeping 18 hours a day !

So I guess I could spread the last few days out over several posts if I wanted. However, I’ve decided that a quick summary will suffice :-)

- The flight was okay – managed to get 3 seats to myself for the London to Singapore leg, so could stretch out all I wanted. However there were screamy kids all over the place, so I only managed about 3 hrs of kip out of a 12 hour flight. Disaster. The Singapore to Sydney leg was a bit crap, cos it was 3 hours longer than I thought it was gonna be ! Oh well

- The sun was rising as I was passing over Sydney harbour during the descent — but it was completely overcast, so I saw nothing ! I want my money back ! Larry and Diane met me at the airport and took me back to St Clair. I took 2 naps during the day before going to an engagement party that night and meeting a load of Aussies, including (cousin) Brendan’s girlfriend.

- Went for a tour of the city with L&D the next day, visiting all the usual tourist sites — the Opera House, the Bridge, the Harbour, the Rocks, etc. It was a lovely day, but I made the amateur mistake of wearing my thongs (flip flops), so ended up with blisters and sore feet (which I have yet to recover from).

- Other highlights from the last few days include meeting baby Ciara, having dinner with Megan and Damo, getting lost in St Clair after having been walking around the city on my own for several hours yesterday, and visiting the Blue Mountains today in the mist and rain:

The plans for the next few days include hanging around Manly with Brendan, finding a hostel to live in for a couple weeks, and meeting up with Andy and Amy on Paddy’s Day. Also finding a job at some stage.

Til then — toodle-oo