Having arrived slightly crumpled from SE Asia we were glad to get to a country where we could speak the language and cross the road in relative safety again. Sydney, and specifically the suburb of Glebe where we stayed, did not disappoint. On our first full day there we caught up with much needed things, food shopping, getting our haircut and buying small fake Christmas trees, all good. We were slightly suprised to find that there was not nearly as many house and street decorations as at home, so we tried to make up for it in our room. The following day, Christmas Eve, we were suprised again as it poured with rain in the afternoon, this was not what we had signed up for. We stood sheltering in the Glebe fish market wondering if we
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