I did the tourist bit for a while: the inside of the opera house, Darling Harbour and a great exhibition about the construction of the Harbour Bridge in one of the bridge towers. I then managed to track down Mike at the same hostel he had been staying at last time. Much of the old Melbourne crowd was still there, so it was down to the pub to revisit old times.

Of course, now that I have met up with Mike again, Arsenal bloody FC is going to be a big part of my life for a while.

There was an open air classical concert in Sydney whilst I was there and, after the Carols by Candlelight experience, I decided to check it out. Rain stopped play however, which was a considerable disappointment for several thousand people.

Mike had got £58 to get him back to England. I had more than that, but we were both going to have to rely on our credit cards and then hope that we could get jobs quickly back in England.