Bright and early start this morning, with the alarm going off at 2:30am. Into a cab at 3:30 and onto a bus heading to Sydney at 4:30am. Lovely girl from Gibraltar on the bus next to me, think I scared her with stories about crocodiles, spiders and snakes though! Arrived at Sydney International just before 8am and Soma arrived by 8:30am. Quick check in to our flight, then it was straight through Immigration and Security (I not only got an explosives check but also a pat down, definitely the first time that has happened to me in Australia) before we found a place to eat breakfast. My Eggs Benedict was lovely and well needed given the early start. Breakfast done, it was a spot of shoe shopping (thought I had forgotten to pack a pair of
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