April Showers
(by Hunter)
The last week or so has seen Candace and me busy as can be, exploring housing options, job searching and visiting Kinkos. (Note to self: do Aussies abbreviate the name Kinkos in their typical fashion to “Kinkys”? Must look into this.)
We have a development on the housing front – we signed a rental agreement for a studio in the Darlinghurst neighborhood as a short-term solution. It gets us a place to call home close to the (pending) job interviews, allows dogs (sort of – the landlord told us to just tell the neighbors we were watching him short term for a friend), and the length of stay is totally open-ended.
The landlord is so laid back he is almost asleep, and his only request was that we give him “two weeks notice…unless you need to leave sooner than that”. Really rigid guy, that landlord. Now we can actually unpack the bags a bit, and stop living like backpackers. I will kind of miss the group kitchen though. Ok, no I won’t.
This apartment will be home until we get the massive salaries that we are demanding, after which we plan to renovate the Opera House into an apartment. Actually we will then be able to take our time to find a good permanent residence in Manly Beach, where we plan to be located if at all possible. A ferry ride to work isn’t a bad commute at all, I figure.
Here are a couple Oskar photos proving that the pup is alive and still capable of being happy:
In other news, we spent some time this weekend with a very nice group of friends. Andrew and Kelly are Aussies that live in Melbourne but know Candace from a time they lived in Seattle, and Mike and Shaune are Americans from Seattle, in Australia on holiday and to visit A & K. Still with me? All four of them, plus their beautiful young children came to Sydney for the weekend.
We spent the day at the beach sunning and surfing, and then headed back to their hotel room/apartment. Little did I know that their room was at the top of one of the tallest buildings in Sydney, with a protruding glass room that afforded a panoramic view on the city. Very nice. Just to cap it off, good old Sol decided to give us an intense sunset that kept building in intensity and lasted for the better part of an hour. Sadly, I can’t post the pics here at this time, because they are on Candace’s camera, which is back at the room. Well get them to you in another post.
In the mean time, enjoy this picture of the strange red “SURGERY” sign that is attached to a non-medical looking doorway in a back alley nearby. I hope we never have any occasion to require their services.
Just to balance out that last picture, here is a picture of a Vietnamese restaurant a couple of doors down that backs up our claim that there is more very nice Modern design per square foot in this city than just about anywhere in the world:
That’s all for now.
Best wishes to you all!
The last week or so has seen Candace and me busy as can be, exploring housing options, job searching and visiting Kinkos. (Note to self: do Aussies abbreviate the name Kinkos in their typical fashion to “Kinkys”? Must look into this.)
We have a development on the housing front – we signed a rental agreement for a studio in the Darlinghurst neighborhood as a short-term solution. It gets us a place to call home close to the (pending) job interviews, allows dogs (sort of – the landlord told us to just tell the neighbors we were watching him short term for a friend), and the length of stay is totally open-ended.
The landlord is so laid back he is almost asleep, and his only request was that we give him “two weeks notice…unless you need to leave sooner than that”. Really rigid guy, that landlord. Now we can actually unpack the bags a bit, and stop living like backpackers. I will kind of miss the group kitchen though. Ok, no I won’t.
This apartment will be home until we get the massive salaries that we are demanding, after which we plan to renovate the Opera House into an apartment. Actually we will then be able to take our time to find a good permanent residence in Manly Beach, where we plan to be located if at all possible. A ferry ride to work isn’t a bad commute at all, I figure.
Here are a couple Oskar photos proving that the pup is alive and still capable of being happy:
In other news, we spent some time this weekend with a very nice group of friends. Andrew and Kelly are Aussies that live in Melbourne but know Candace from a time they lived in Seattle, and Mike and Shaune are Americans from Seattle, in Australia on holiday and to visit A & K. Still with me? All four of them, plus their beautiful young children came to Sydney for the weekend.
We spent the day at the beach sunning and surfing, and then headed back to their hotel room/apartment. Little did I know that their room was at the top of one of the tallest buildings in Sydney, with a protruding glass room that afforded a panoramic view on the city. Very nice. Just to cap it off, good old Sol decided to give us an intense sunset that kept building in intensity and lasted for the better part of an hour. Sadly, I can’t post the pics here at this time, because they are on Candace’s camera, which is back at the room. Well get them to you in another post.
In the mean time, enjoy this picture of the strange red “SURGERY” sign that is attached to a non-medical looking doorway in a back alley nearby. I hope we never have any occasion to require their services.
Just to balance out that last picture, here is a picture of a Vietnamese restaurant a couple of doors down that backs up our claim that there is more very nice Modern design per square foot in this city than just about anywhere in the world:
That’s all for now.
Best wishes to you all!
posted by Hunter Williams at 9:43 PM
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