Meeting Sydney - Blogabond

Hola.

Today its saturday and tomorrow i will end my month stay in Australia. But the trip is not over, oh no...

...as of tomorrow i will start the third and final leg of my trip, Asia. The plans are simple, tomorrow morning i fly to singapore. From there we see what happens.

Anyway, I have enjoyed Sydney lots, the place is smaller than i thought in the centre. The sights plentiful, the buildings clear cut on the blue sky and the atmosphere always happening. I arrived into the Kings cross area, which has its own sights by night and day. While staying at the hostel i met Debs and we were to meet again. We shared quite a bit in common. a lot in common. Then i went out to meet a relative in the suburbs. Back in the central city it was the pitt st region of town where i met up with turra from earlier fraser times.

We had a great night last night on the goon and in a few of the bars nearby. Sydney is definately an international city, there are people from all over the world here and its noticable. Haha. I just remembered something that happened last night though, at the bar i could hear an english guy next to me and when i looked at him i thought i knew him. It was earlier up the coast we had met i was sure of it. But the guy (Paul) later admitted to me that he had no clue at all. As you do, where are you from? We muttered Sheffield at the same time. Where? Stocksbridge was Pauls reply. At this point (as basically we live very close to each other) we thought it was a little more possible we may have met, but certainly not in Oz. It became clear as we spoke that we had indeed never met. The other guys with him (also from stocky, were amazed) as we then realised that i had recognised his mannerisms from his dad, someone i met a few times when i was considering playing for stocksbridge football club. The furtherest it went was a phonecall by his dad asking me to join the club, this was a fantastic offer but at this point i realised that i would always just enjoy my football. I declined but did not forget. Now in a bar in Australia, the other side of the world, i had recognised this character. I asked if it was true that people comment on similarity with is dad, to which his mates answered. Yes. So i met Paul Bethnal, son of Alan in a bar in Sydney by a hunch. Crazy.

This is a very special lady. Meet Aunt Rene. Aunt rene is the only person i will ever meet who is blood related and of the generation before my parents. I was not born when she last visited Barnsley, her home in the UK. Her brother was my grandfather. I joined rene and her two sons for a day and night and we enjoyed a lot of talking (we never talk on the phone) some much appreciated food and the other things you cant put words on. She is a brave lady and for the past 7 years has helped her husband battle numerous problems and conditions, until a few months ago he passed away to weak to live. I left rene knowing that i had had my encounter with someone never to be forgotten. I waved by and left in the taxi, she stood on the porch with her walking stick, in this house she had settled in Australia after the war. Thank you Aunt Rene. And rest in peace Sydney your husband.

So it really has been a god start to the new year. Celbrations were chilled, despite the firepoy in the photo. We had a bbq and went to the beach, people jumped in the water, people poured more and more goon, we ate yet more food and danced to those tiny little speakers. It was all good. And for a while we even had guitar anthems... the people were from all over so the selection was interesting.

The trip is going well. As said plans are being realisd for the next leg so until then and until singpore at least, bye!!!

written by

50watts on January 7, 2006 from Sydney, Australia

from the travel blog: Ending 2005 and Starting 2006

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Hi Bro,

is this person having a problem with their lighter? They need to hold it still if they want to smoke a cig!

B Bro.

written by Bruce on January 24, 2006

i think they were getting annoyed at people asking for a light so they got a bit creative!

bro

written by brian on January 26, 2006

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