I arrived back in Dublin safely on Sunday afternoon following 40 hours of travel from Sydney via Auckland (5hrs), LA (1hr) and Heathrow (another 5hrs). The best part about all the travel is that I haven’t really had any jetlag, I was back at work at 9:30 on Monday morning, and I’ve been back to normal sleep, wake, work, play, sleep routine without any ill effects.
My two weeks in Sydney were very enjoyable, the Google office there is very nice, looking out directly over Darling Harbour from nearly the 20th floor and with a fairly laid-back and relaxed atmosphere. I also caught up with our friends from Auckland, Sam and Manuela who have been living in Sydney for the last year or so and we swapped some stories about our various experiences living overseas and away from family which was interesting.
There is a bunch of photos from New Zealand, Brisbane and Sydney in the gallery at:
It’s been a busy week back, both at work and catching up with what friends have been doing while we were away. We went to a Habitat for Humanity pub quiz night last night, raising funds for a trip to build some houses in Ghana later this year. Our team only had 3 out of a desired 4 members, but despite that disadvantage we still managed to post a semi-respectable score of 49 (the winning team got about 96, the losers were on 30 I think) and had a great time.
We’re moving out of our current apartment in two weeks, and I think we found where we will move to this evening. Apparently sleeping on decisions allows your subconcious to make cleverer decisions than when you are awake so we’ll decide tommorrow morning if that’s where we want to move or not :p
Watch this space.