Sydney to Canberra

It’s already time to leave Sydney. I am heading to Canberra, in a couple hours. I will weather out the Christmas seige in Canberra.

I haven’t really done much in Sydney, but it is nice to just relax. I went on a Sydney harbour cruise, for two hours, and strolled a bit around downtown and “The Rocks”, but that is the extent of my tourist activity.

Otherwise, I replaced my iPod, and managed to download and sync a reasonable slice of my music collection. Fortunately, I have all of my music synchronized to mp3tunes.com. I have managed to get about 4.5G of music from there, and onto my iPod. The internet cafe only has enough bandwidth to get 1.5G during a 12 hour overnight download, so it took three nights.

I also went to see the latest Scorcese movie: The Departed. This is a remake of the excellent Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. Scorcese’s version keeps the same basic plot mechanics, but focusses more on the characters than the Hong Kong original, which played up the “procedure” a little more.