katysam | 12 Things I Learnt From My Weekend In Sydney

1). The Station Formerly Known As Spencer Street is kind of scary. OKAY, it's small and doesn't have that many platforms or trains but it also doesn't haven't many signs. I had no idea where I was going Thursday night. Give me Penn Station in New York anytime! (What? Gratuitous place name dropping? Never!)

2).Also. Is Spencer Street the only train station in metropolitan Melbourne that does not have Pepsi vending machines? WTF! The distinct lack of Pepsi Max was not a good start to the weekend.

3). The new Albury bypass on the Hume Highway totally rocks. It must cut at least 20 minutes off the journey between Melbourne & Sydney. At least.

4). When driving through Sydney, if in doubt, stick to the middle lane. Especially when trying to find your way into the harbour tunnel.

5). Sydney road signage kinda sucks and their left lanes have a terrible habit of 'disappearing'. And don't even get me started on the buses and taxi drivers.

6). Warringah Mall in Manly is a terrific shopping centre but it's car park most definitely sucks. The only* time we got lost on the weekend was trying to get out of that car park.
*The only time whilst Caz or I were driving/navigating.

7). You never know who you'll see when shopping at the above mentioned shopping centre. I am convinced I saw Anne Looby who played Anna Lacey on A Country Practice. Awesome! *goes off in search of old ACP video tapes*

8). Brookvale Oval is the BEST. GROUND. EVER. The atmosphere is wonderful and their supporters are amongst the best behaved and friendliest. The fact that Storm cannot seem to win at the ground is neither here nor there. I am going to every Storm game at Brooky until we finally win one. I'm sure we will... one day...

9). Steve Bell still remembers us.

10). Ribs and Rumps in Manly do a great steak. My choice: Rump. Blue. Yum.

11). It is possible to get three yellow Clinkers in a row. Who knew?

12). I am a nuffer. On the way back from Sydney today, I posted an 'on the road' voice post when we stopped in Gundagai. For some reason I hadn't ticked the 'Disable Auto-Transcription' box in the voice post settings last time I visited so not only was the voice post posted but so was a transcription. And the transcription was so terrible I tried to delete it. Sadly, in the process I somehow managed to delete the entire post. PFFFTT! Voice Post - GONE! I don't believe there is a way to retrieve it however I did manage to salvage the auto-transcription that I was trying to get rid of in the first place. *roll eyes*

Transcription of Lost Voice Post

Hi, just checking in on the way home from Sydney to Melbourne. We're just stopped at Ugumdisi(?) for a quick lunch stop & also a quick what(?) so that I can catch a ride back to Melbourne with Glen & Kevin(?) & Tren will keep going on home to Lamerta(?). So great weekend, went to the Storm game again last night unfortunately Storm did lose 13 points to 12 but it was a good game never the less, well at least the last few mins it was. Shouldn't be too much longer on the Rd., give that the ___ Hollow(?) now has a fantastic new Aubrey with Ongo(?) bypass which knocks about 20 mins off the trip & he just flies through Aubrey. That's about it for the weekend, met Dan & Emma up in Mamms(?) last night so it was good seeing them up there as well & also got to catch up with a couple of old form(?) players which is always good to see them. Anyway, it's ___ update from the Rd. Bye.