Wednesday 23 December 2009

Christmas blues...

Three days until Christmas and everything is just wrong here. Santa shouldn’t wear sunglasses, Bermuda shorts or be carrying a surf-board. It shouldn’t be scorching hot and 30C+!! It should be cold and dreary with a possibility of snow. People should also have the traditional sit down Christmas meal with turkey and trimmings. BBQ’s just aren’t Christmassy. Both me and Andrea have to keep on reminding ourselves that it is actually Christmas in a few days. It doesn’t seem quite as big over here as it is in Europe. Probably because people have the summer to look forward to as well, whereas in Europe the festive period breaks the winter into two parts.

Having said all that though it sounds like Europe and the East coast of America are getting an absolute hammering with the weather at the moment. I’m not sure I’d enjoy that too much either…

Today we did a tour of Narooma and drove around some of the local villages and bays. Narooma itself is situated between two bays - Wagonga Inlet and Forsters Bay - to the east and west of the town. It is possible to walk along some of the spits and look across the bays towards the town. You can get some nice views and it is really pretty. Some of the beaches are very nice also, probably the best we have seen so far.

In the evening we had our first BBQ in Australia - getting some practice in before Christmas day you see. By the time it got round to 9pm we were both really tired. With all the early mornings to allow Andrea to train when it is cooler and the constant travelling and sightseeing it can be quite exhausting. We’ll try and do better tomorrow, maybe we’ll stay up until 9:30pm…


Andrea looking cool on her sess in the morning



North Narooma beach



Surfers beach Narooma



Andrea looking out for sharks
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5 comments:

  1. Fergus23 December 2009 at 08:22

    Sounds like there couldn't be more of a contrast between conditions over there and here. The country has virtually ground to a halt with all the snow. -7C last night. Took me 4.5 hours to drive back from Manchester on Sunday, back on the same road today to head towards Holyhead. Have a great Christmas guys. I'm sure it will be a very unique experience!

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  2. lui23 December 2009 at 11:47

    We can watch this movie together chris!!!!
    the link is in my name, "the crazies"
    xx

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  3. C24 December 2009 at 00:02

    Thanks for the comments guys...

    Fergus - the weather sounds horrendous. I definitely prefer it here, it just doesn't feel Christmassy. Have a good one ;)

    Lui - that film looks awful. I want to see it.

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  4. Neil Renault24 December 2009 at 18:05

    7 hours 15min from Edinburgh to Dover, 505 miles......no problems. English can't clear snow properly. I just put my imaginary snow plough on, floored it and crossed my fingers ;-)

    Was 34oC in Rio the other day, was glad to get back to Edinburgh and -6oC (-11oC when driving back last night!) and run in foot deep snow (proper scottish snow :-)

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  5. Fergus25 December 2009 at 08:38

    Said like a true Scotsman!

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