Current location: Bondi
11.11am, At Bondi Beach! Argh I'm excited even just writing about this! Today's excitement levels were at a pretty mega high, thanks to the amount of awesome things we did today. Early this morning we hopped on our bikes, and rose to Bondi. I was soooo excited to get to Bondi for multiple reasons:
1. I'm first and foremost a British tourist, and so places such as Bondi Beach will always get me excited!
2. We were meeting my friends from London – Robyn and Emily, and their boyf/husband. We were on the same Master's course and it's been years since I've seen Emily, and months since I've seen Robs, and now we're all in the same country again (albeit on the other side of the world).
3. I'm an avid fan of Bondi Rescue.
On the way to Bondi, we rode through Centennial Park, where The Colour Run was just finishing. It's a 5km run for charity, which involves the runners getting paint thrown at them at various points on the course. The park was pretty full and pretty colourful!
When we arrived at Bondi an hour later, we had a sweet reunion with Robyn, Josh, Emily and Dave, and then went to Trio for brunch. Oh my goodness. Possibly the best brunch I've ever had (and I've had a lot!) – and it looks right over Bondi, a tourist's dream! Seriously good, I would highly recommend it if you're ever in Sydney (and if you are, call me, and I'll come with you!). It was SO lovely to sit, eat and catch up with two such lovely women, and their equally lovely men. Time really doesn't affect anything when it comes to friendships... It felt like we'd seen each other only a week before. I feel very lucky to have so many good people in my life!
It was such beautiful weather so we made the most of it and went to the beach for a while. My excitement levels got even further when some of the lifeguards went past on the quad bike. Some of the Bondi Rescue lifeguards! The others laughed at me for a while, we did some star jumps, we marvelled at how it could possibly be winter, and then Robyn frog-marched me over to the lifeguards and asked for a picture. She's such a good friend! (Excitement levels now at an all-time high!)
After a gorgeous hour of sunshine, we said our goodbyes and Andy and I hopped back on our bikes to go and visit another friend, Elle, and her family. She is my sister Pippa's best friend, and she lives near Coogee (another beautiful beach), which is unfortunately a very hilly ride away! So we arrived with tired legs, but the perfect medicine for that was to sit in their garden with a big glass of water and have a good catch up with Elle and her husband Dan, and play with their beautiful daughter Poppy. The sun was still going strong so we walked down to the beach, where hundreds of people were enjoying the late afternoon sunshine (lots of bbqs going on!), and after debating it for about an hour, ended up jumping in the sea for a quick, refreshing, cold swim! I still can't believe it's winter.
Tearing ourselves away to cycle home before it got dark, we began the journey home, with salty, sun-wrinkled skin, tired legs and huge smiles on our faces. There is a LOT I miss about our life in England (especially the people), but this is exactly the kind of day I imagined when we thought about moving to Australia, and I'm so glad it's become a reality.
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