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and so you find me back once again in Sydney! It's actually great to be back and in a strange way feels like coming home after being here for so long.
The train from Melbourne was fine, the aircon was up too high as is always the way with these things and I didn't have enough layers with me (as my big bag had been checked in and so was riding in a different carriage) and so sleep was rather hard to come by.What was interesting was leaving Melbourne and seeing quite how flat the city, and the area surrounding it, is.Quite a long way from the city you could still see the skyscrapers. The train stopped at a number of nowheresville towns between Melbourne and Sydney and, I am sure at one point we went past a lighthouse (or I might have been dreaming at that stage!) The stars out of the window were pretty spectacular too, with barely any light pollution around. Needless to say once I got on the city train out to Kiyomi and Heath's place in Seven Hills I was fast asleep and spent most of the day catching up on the sleep I had missed over the previous few nights.
I have been mostly catching up with friends since I have been back in Sydney.I saw Fiona and Bob Chorley and their children Alex and Hanna on Saturday for lunch in China Town.Alex has just been selected as the part of Michael in the West End production of Mary Poppins which is on tour of Australia.Pretty exciting as it will mean moving down to Melbourne for a month of rehearsals as well as a year off school!Hanna (age 7) too is a talented one and had trials for the NSW elite gymnastics squad the following day.In the evening I caught up for drinks with Lucy who I had met in Borneo diving in Sipadan.We went to a great pub in Surry Hills called the Beresford and enjoyed catching up over a few schooners of cider!
On Sunday I went over to Manly and did the MYC Club Championships on Copernicus.Was great to see everyone and with pretty blowy conditions we did great, winning a nice bottle of wine.Unfortunately, I did manage to lose the hat that I'd bought at Geelong L - typical! Caught up with a few of the Wharf Bar girls on my way to my old place to see Aisling - really made me miss living there still!I did more sailing on Monday with the Mount Gay twilight racing from the CYCA on a North Shore 38.Again, the conditions were gorgeous with lots of breeze and really hot.Monday night's prize was a Mount Gay red hat.
Conditions on Tuesday in Seven Hills were similar to Monday and in excess of 40 degrees - sweltering.Only one thing for it so I headed to the beach (South Curl Curl) and then called by Jill Hingston's to catch up with her and her daughter Chloe (who'd just had her first ballet lesson).I met Kiyomi after she'd finished work in North Sydney and had a sundowner with her and then called in for Japanese near where she used to live on the way home.
I spent the day with Paul on Wednesday trying to keep cool on Balmoral beach (which mostly meant swimming and shade bathing) followed by Thai in Kirribilli.
Off to Newcastle on Saturday on a Cookson 12 called Blackadder which I am looking forward to.Being on the water in this heat is definitely the way forward, although the weather is due to change on Sunday afternoon with a Southerly and I think some of the rain off the back of the tropical low which was Cyclone Yasi.I am keeping everything crossed that the crazy weather in Queensland calms down before I head up there.At the moment I am aiming to be in Noosa at the end of the month and from there the Whitsundays.
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