Last day of the first week here in Australia. It’s Saturday and the start of our four days off. I thought Lucy would like a trip in to Sydney CBD so we went by train. Lucy isn’t big on doing touristy things so apart from checking out the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the opera house she was quite done, and it was too hot.

To cool down she wanted an iced chocolate so I took her to the Lindt Café in Martin Place – yes the site of a very unfortunate terrorist attack in December 2014, but you wouldn’t know except for two small plaques to commemorate the two people who died.

We decided to not waste the rest of the day by just going back to the apartment so we took the train to Chatswood Shopping Centre which is on our way back to Gordon. It’s huge. I think Lucy could have spent all day there if she had the energy.
The first week is now over and it can be considered a success. In the coming days this blog will focus more on themes such as Covid, Australia Day, comparisons between Australia and New Zealand and events such as what is happening back at home…