In Sydney!

After a last week of organising a lot of last minute things, like selling the boat, finding the cat a new home, selling stuff on marktplaats (e-bay) and lots of paperwork, we finally set of for Sydney on Wednesday morning.
Ieske was sweet enough to pick us up and drive us to the airport where Mieke and Bert also came to wave us goodbye.
Onboard we could finally sit back and relax for 22 hours.
Arriving in Sydney we went to our first place to stay (we got it through http://airbnb.com), in Marrickville, a suburb in the inner-West part of Sydney.
On Friday we got busy looking for an apartment, which isn't all that easy in Sydney as nice apartments in good neighborhoods are very much in demand. We made a couple of appointments for viewings on Saturday and then crashed because of the jetlag...
The viewings gave us an interesting cross-section of housing styles in Sydney, from bedsit (pied-a-terre) to full blown city cottage and things inbetween.
Then is was off to the pub to meet our friends Mike (O'Connor of RecipeWeb days in Amsterdam) and Dan who live in Brisbane but were over in Sydney for the weekend, good stuff!
Monday was labourday in Sydney so a public holiday and no chance to look for apartments but Tuesday we are back in business, getting our Tax File Number and opening a bankaccount, looking at another apartment and enjoying a sunny day in the city. It's all nice but seeing how quickly you spend your dollars we realise that we need to get jobs here soon :-)