Arriving in Sydney

The Green Machine

Holiday Let/ Retirement Bungalow in Waverley

We arrived in Sydney on the 30th of December. We had to spend the first few weeks in a holiday let in Waverley close to Bronte beach in the Eastern Suburbs of the City. The place was cleanish apart from shed loads of cockroaches (which I am growing to love!) and small and only ten minutes walk down a very steep hill to Bronte beach.

The flight was much better than expected in that the boys were fabulous, they slept most of the way other than Ollie who couldnt believe he had his own TV and could watch all sorts of cartoons. He did this for almost 16 hrs!. The only mistake we did make was bringing so many bags as the walks to customs and out of the airport were the longest walks of our lives. Nick carried Alex and bags whilst I did the same with Edward in my arms. Lots of back ache afterwards. To get out of the airport to the taxi queue we had two trolley with six suitacases hand luggage and car seats, one each for Nick and I and Oliver became the driver of the pushchair with Al and Ed inside. It took a long time!

Nick went and collected our car just after we arrived at the house. A 1999 Ford Falcon Estate, it is huge and I think that I am not going to drive it as who knows how you park it. We have named it the 'green machine', It is so long you can only just see the boys in the distance when you look back, perfect!. The road system in Sydney is a bit like America, subdivided into blocks with hardly any roundabouts. There are plenty of traffic lights though which means moving through the city takes a lot of time. Nicks journey to Concord Hospital has a total of 72 traffic lights and can take over a hour to cover the 17km...fun.