G'day mate!

we have arrived in sydney in one piece! managed to escape the warzone!

on our last day in Bangkok (think it was the 15th) James and his wife Nudee took us out on the river for a bit of a cruise! we ran out of petrol at one point so had to stop at one of the many floating petrol stations in the middle of the river. we then went around the 'back roads' or 'clongs' to see the river community. it was like a whole town all built around the river, there were floating stalls and restaurants and even the bank was on a boat which came round once a week. we got to one stall and we stopped to 'feed the fish' and bought some loaves of bread, as soon as we started throwing the bread (into the seemingly still water) literally hundreds of massive fish appeared from nowhere all fighting for the food. well good!

so arrived in sydney today. we're both suffering quite a bit with jet lag, basically not slept at all and its 6.20pm now so still a bit too early to go to bed!!

we've had a bit of a wander about sydney, went to the aquarium which was good - they had a good 'coral reef' reconstruction/exhibition thingy. i've had to buy some more warm clothes as its like october here, just an extra pair of jeans and a hoodie (in the sale- get in!). in fact its raining quite a lot, so feeling quite at home! our hostel is nice, very modern and it look like we may have the room to ourselves tonight (fingers crossed!!!)