Day 71 – St Patricks Day Parade in Sydney.

On my walk yesterday I saw signs for a St Patricks day parade so when I went back to the apartment I googled and found out there was indeed such thing on. The parade started around midday but there were pre and post events happening. Just as I was about to leave the heavens opened and it absolutely hammered it down! I found an umbrella and went out to watch the parade anyway. The best thing about it raining was most people stepped back and were under shelters meaning I could get a great spot. I watched quite a bit of it before heading down the road to the Australian Museum to shelter from the rain. Quite a few other people had joined me on that thought by the looks of it as I had to queue about 10minutes to buy a ticket.

The museum is the oldest in Australia, opening in 1855, and was originally called the Colonial Museum. It contains natural history, zoology, the wildlife and history of Australia. There are around 120,000 deaths in Australia every year and you’d assume a lot of these are from snakes, crocs and sharks but that only makes up for about 10 so the dangerous reputation people give this country isn’t that fair.

I went back to the apartment about 4 as the first F1 of the season started at 5 here in Australia. I debated about heading over to Melbourne to watch it but lucky for me I discovered I’m in Kuala Lumpur for the next race so I’ve just bought a ticket to that instead! Val got in not long after me so we settled down to watch the race. It was dramatic and lost a third of the drivers but what a great start to the season! For dinner we had some Vietnamese food getting me in the mood for Asia, the food as always was amazing and now I know what a noodle salad is.