Why would anyone in the northern hemisphere spend their summer holiday in the southern hemisphere – right in the middle of their winter? We have been in Sydney since last Tuesday (4th) and today we finally got some sunshine and some decent heat. It has been wet, windy and damn cold here and we didn’t bring enough warm clothes.

However, the real reson we are here is for Mirella (Nadia’s sister) and Domenic (my new brother in law)’s wedding. From the minute we arrived, the heavens opened and it looked like Saturday was going to be a washout. But our prayers were answered and at least it stopped raining for a few hours and the sun made a fleeting appearance, although the wind didn’t relent. It was a lovely day, and of course it was a wonderful family occassion, tinged with sadness because we all miss Walter. I was asked to give a speech on behalf of Walter at the reception, which was very hard for me and to be honest, I broke down a bit at the end. However, a lot of people came up to me afterwards and said they loved my speech as it obviously came from my heart. 

I’ll fill you in on the rest of the details along with some pictures (even of me in a kilt) when we get home. Only got a couple of days left now. It feels very quick and we haven’t had much time to think about what we might do about potentially moving here. We have been given wonderful hospitality by both sides of the fmaily, and I haven’t eaten (or even seen) so much food in so few days. We have one more day of family stuff to do then we have a couple of days to ourselves to explore the city a bit more and talk about the future.

Sydney in the rain feels like any other big city in the rain, and it wasn’t putting on it’s Sunday best to attract me here. But I’m glad I saw it like that to show that things are not always sunny on the other side of the world.

We have a quiet evening this evening, staying in watching TV. Let’s hope the weather picks up for our last few days before we head back to Edinburgh. I do wish we had a bit longer here, but it’s not to be this time.