Crazy Weather, An Olive Farm and Aspiring Dutch Emigrants

The most common comment from visitors from England and New Zealand last week was that the weather was just like home and not what they were hoping for. We've had a pretty crazy few weeks weatherwise here in Sydney. There was a long run of extreme heat (40 degrees plus) then about a week of cool wet weather which was almost like winter had come 3 or 4 months early. Many of the visitors were only here for a week or less and just suffered the wet days which made it hard to do much sightseeing.

I ran across a young English guy (late teens) who had spent some time in Sydney but also about 2 months work on an olive farm in Hillston, NSW, He quite enjoyed the farm work but found it very hot.

Travelling home on Malaysia Airlines was a 30's Dutch couple who were here for 3 months, mainly in Sydney. They had been here a few times before and loved it so much that they were checking out job opportunities so that they can live here.

On the same flight was an older Malaysian couple who had flown to the Gold Coast with the budget carrier, Air Asia and had already booked another dirt cheap fare on Air Asia to Melbourne later in the year. We desperately need more low cost airlines such as Air Asia to fly into Sydney.

A couple of weeks back I finally got around to doing something that so many of our overseas visitors do in Sydney - the Harbour Bridge climb. It was a great experience and I would certainly recommend it. Not many locals tend to do it and just think 'it's something we can do anytime and put it off till later'. I'll try and post a photo here soon.

Till next week.

Peter

Souvenirs Australia Warehouse