Living in the suburbs

We have just had our first "full" week living with Brad's friends in an area called Petersham which is about 10 miles from the centre of Sydney. They have a small 2 bedroom house a minutes walk from the suburban train station and near the centre of town.

Petersham seems to be the Portuguese area of Sydney. There are Portuguese shops and restaurant. My favourite though are the cafe's which sell the most delicious coffee and Portuguese tarts. yum yum. Saturday morning involved a short walk to the cafe where we picked up the weekend newspaper, a flat white and a tart. A very civil start to the weekend I thought!

Unfortunately there is no Supermarket so it means getting on the train to get Groceries (or pay a fortune at the local shops) I miss having Asda within walking distance.

We are staying with Augusta (Gus) and Trevor. They are old friends of Brad's who have kindly let us move into their spare room until we find a place of our own. Gus works for the Australian Film Industry but her real passion is the Theatre. She is a fairly well established director and also reviews other plays for the local press. We have already had free tickets to a Sydney Fringe Festival show called Short 10's and we are going to another show (free of charge) this week. Great :-) Trevor is Canadian and is completing a PHD at Sydney Uni (something to do with plants / botany but I am not sure what. All I know is that he got very excited the other night when a program about the first ever flower came on the TV).

It is now starting to feel a bit more real. We are now doing our own laundry (it is great to hang clothes out on the line and for them to be dry within an hour!). It is also nice to have home cooked food and shop in Supermarkets.