The last chapter of the RTA Big Ride… Getting home.
Fun and games with transport this morning, a typical story of the hotel arranging an airport bus for us, then the bus driver refusing to carry bicycle boxes. With much difficulty we shoe-horned the boxes into a Taxi station wagon, then put up with half an hour of the driver telling us how wonderful Sydney’s taxis are and how we shouldn’t even bother trying with the bus. Checkin at the airport was painless, no charges for the bikes this time, and by noon we were back in Richmond, flaked out on the couch, recovering…
Real Estate
Most impressive! The real-estate agency that manages my flat has managed to send me a letter with the following attributes:
- It has the address of the property specified incorrectly.
- Its dated 25th May 2002 — about a month in the future
- It has the wrong street address, 41/59 instead of 2/59
- It has the wrong postcode, 5121 instead of 3121
- It’s postmarked 10th May 2002, but with insufficient postage so…
- It’s been stamped by Australia Post as having visited the dead letter office and “Underpaid - to be paid by addressee", probably as a result of it going to South Australia before being forwarded to Victoria
Amazingly, it still seems to have made it to me!
