In Sydney again

Hi

I am back in Sydney after a disappointing summer in the UK. Although I did have a really perfect week at Taunton in early June when I went to watch the England Women’s Cricket team compete in the International Twenty-20 tournament. They were unbeaten in the all their matches at Taunton. Next they were playing Australia in the semi’s at the Oval. I managed to get a ticket on ebay and watched a great match where our girls beat Australia in a tough match. The English Women went on to beat New Zealand in the final at Lords.
So having won the International Women’s 50 ODI tournament earlier in the year in Sydney, they now held the Twenty-20 title too. Lastly they went on to beat Australia in the Women’s Ashes as well. An excellent performance.

This time I have entered Australia with my permanent resident’s visa. It took just over 18 months to get the visa but it was worth it.

I think Australia is a great place with very good weather. The thing I do find odd are the adverts on the tv here. They seem to consist of people shouting at you. Why do they do that ? It just makes me switch to a different channel. The fact that a nation accepts these kind of ads is worrying and their politicians seem to adopt the same “shout at you” techniques. Luckily with the age of the Internet it is easier to watch programs from other countries.

I have a great view from my apartment as it overlooks the harbour, bridge and Opera House.

If you want to see this view being updated every 60 seconds you can at www.sydneyview.com

Bye for now

Peewit

Living in Oz

Living in Oz

Hi, It has been a while since I have updated my blog so this post is overdue.

Firstly, for those that are interested in my daily diary of events when I was doing my three week private pilot training at Naples Air Center in Florida, this is all available by looking at the posts for February 2006. I did try to detail everything so this may be useful for anyone considering going on this PPL course.

In my last post I was living in Woking, England. Since then I have sold my house and am now living in Sydney, Australia.

Just look at the view I wake up to each morning.



The weather is great and the beach, countryside or city are very close at hand. Currently I am here on a 12 month visitor visa and will be returning to England next March. I am in the queue to get a full residential visa so once I have that I will be staying longer in the Sydney area.


Balmoral beach



I am not flying here yet and will wait until I come back on a full visa. Then I will get a car and be able to drive to Bankstown airport and fly from there. It is a great place to fly and the sunny weather helps to. There is special route called the Victor 1 route (http://www.casa.gov.au/pilots/download/sydney/sydney.pdf) that flies over Sydney harbour, the bridge and city. It also takes in some of the many beaches.
I am hoping that soon I can take a flight on the classic de Havilland Beaver floatplane. I will be a passenger on this flight that takes off from Rose Bay and flies up to a place called Cottage Point. Here it lands and everybody has lunch before making the return flight back to Rose Bay in Port Jackson.

Bye for now

Peewit