Glad to be home

I would have thought a European vacation would have meant never thinking about Australia but after 28 days in the UK and Europe I now have a new found love of Sydney. I had a great time on my sightseeing tour but couldn’t help feeling I miss my bed and pillow.

The thing I missed the most about Sydney was the food. You can’t walk into a city and expect to find those hidden gems that you know back in your hometown so I had to resort to just talking around the tourist areas looking for places to eat. So my experience was always tainted. While I did enjoy the cheap pizzas in Italy I craved a "Western" style one with tandoori chicken as margarita and mushroom pizza's wear then pretty quickly.

While you might be lucky to find a milo in London at a specialty store you got no hope anywhere else. Same goes for a meat pie. I had my fill of pasties in the UK (all I could afford due to the nasty exchange rate) but it doesn’t taste as nice as a pie.

I also happen to be afflicted with liking lemon soda and while Italy I made do everyone else offered Orange Fanta as the only alternative to Coke and Sprite.

You can't go 50 mtrs in Sydney without walking past a juice stand but I couldn’t find one anywhere on my holidays.

I also enjoy my food smoke free but had to say nothing as I ate in Italy with smoking German women surrounding me.

It wasn’t all food though. I also like the power of the zebra crossing in Australia a power that is sorely lost on Italian and French drivers.