We're back in Sydney through Sunday morning. We have no plans today and few for the week (so far).

Tomorrow we're thinking of doing the Coogee-Bondi cliff walk if the weather is good.

Lisa is working on Wednesday and we're doing dinner at Tetsuya Wednesday night.

I'm planning on lunch with Max Thursday, location TBD. Steve L. and Betsy arrive Thursday morning so we might try to arrange dinner with them Thursday night.

The party at Level 41 is on Friday night. There's still a few seats available, so if you (I'm looking at you Turbot) want to jump on a plane for the party you have until Wednesday to get your act together.

We're staying at the Westin on Martin Place. We stayed here four years ago (we arrived just in time for me to feel a slight tremor midday on the 26^th of December 2004, which we now believe was the shockwave from the massive earthquake that morning off Indonesia). Four years ago their broadband setup seemed reasonable, but today it seems they've done nothing to increase their bandwidth out of the hotel. From the free wireless in the lobby I was getting 10kB/sec downloads and the speed from the ethernet in the room is not much better.

We don't usually watch American Chopper, but happened across an episode last night on the local Discovery Channel where the guys from Walden, NY spend several weeks touring around Australia (there seem to be multiple episodes, last night's seemed to be the last one, based in Melbourne).

If anyone has suggestions for novel things to do in / around Sydney (for two people who've both lived here, so no Taronga Zoo, and no The Matrix tours please) drop me a line.