Rain, rain go away...!

Currently staying in a serviced apartment in the CBD and its rained non-stop everyday-that was not in the script! Looking forward to a little sun. Still without a car it's hard to get out of the city and there is loads of errands to run, so perhaps it's for the best. One can still sit down and relax with a eggs benedict and flat white though, so it's not all bad :0)

Slowly finding our way around the CBD and shed a lot of foot leather walking between banks and searching out good bars and cafés. Already have a couple of favorite cafés where the coffee and/or food is exceptional with a good ambience

Have set up our bank accounts and now have a better appreciation of UK banks! Over here you still get charged if you use another banks ATM and the list of things you get charged for is quite long..at least it is with an "electronic" (read, online only) account. Anytime you visit a branch you pay. Still we are now the proud owners of Westpac EFTPOS cards - not that we can use them yet as our money had not arrived yet from the UK!

Finding good ale has proved a bit harder. Several places exist with micro-breweries and their Ales are pretty good. Unfortunately there are several that masquerade as Ales but are little more than malty lager. Just going to have to keep sampling ;0)

A more successful mission was finding PG tips. Our local New World supermarket sells 60 pyramid bags for about £8! Luckily found some old skool rectangular PG tips for pretty much same price as the local brew. Check the old skool packaging...