Mum's gone 2 Aus

Is Surry Hills on your shortlist of Sydney suburbs to explore during a visit or relocation to Australia? Are you moving to Sydney and hoping to call Surry Hills home?

We’ve lived in Sydney for over two years and although we have heard a lot about Surry Hills – it has good bars and restaurants and is known as a fashionable suburb; we had never walked the streets and taken a look for ourselves, until recently.… Read more

The school Easter holidays are fast approaching and you may be looking for new activities to fill your days. You may be receiving overseas visitors and need to draw up an itinerary of things to keep them busy.

During the Australian summer holidays we had visitors from the UK and yet again, we discovered some fantastic family friendly activities in and around Sydney. Last year, following a visit from our boys’ Great-Grandmother we shared our Top… Read more

When we planned our move to Australia we were in search of a beach lifestyle. I imagined time spent playing and relaxing on the beach but because I’m not the most surf confident of mums I wasn’t convinced I’d do much swimming in the Ocean. What I didn’t realise was how many beautiful and accessible Ocean Pools there are along the majority of Australia’s coast line.

Ocean Pools offer a safe place to swim for surf… Read more

Mr Mum’s gone 2 Aus tells me I’m a little behind the times but this week I heard Fitzy & Wippa’s Sydneysiders song for the first time, and it had me in stitches! We have watched the video several times since first hearing the song and it provides a clever and fun take on Sydney life.

Fitzy & Wippa are well known Australian radio and TV personalities, currently hosting the weekday morning show (6-9am) at Nova… Read more

We frequently comment that choosing where to live is one of the hardest tasks for families moving to Australia.

In our Where to live section we have written about; Sydney vs Melbourne – fast facts, Australian suburb profiles – where to go to get the low down, Which is Australia’s most liveable city?, and The best Sydney suburbs for families.

The best and worst of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane

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One of the first things we realised when we arrived in Sydney in January 2010 is that Sydney loves a festival. We arrived during the annual Sydney Festival but as the months passed we seemed to encounter a new festival each time we headed into the City.

The Sydney Festival

The annual Sydney Festival takes place in January, in 2012 it will run from 7th to 29th January. The Sydney Festival “enlivens and transforms Sydney with… Read more

If you are relocating to Australia with school age children and looking for a secondary school in New South Wales or Victoria we recommend getting a copy of Choosing a School magazine.

The magazine profiles High Schools and includes useful articles and advice regarding secondary school education in Australia. The magazine is particularly rich in information regarding Catholic, Independent Private, and Government Selective High Schools.

The magazine is widely available in Australian newsagents (for… Read more

A quick post after a busy and fun-filled weekend for Family Mum’s gone 2 Aus. Thank you to all the lovely families who came to our second Mum’s gone 2 Aus Family Day.

We were eight families in total; familiar faces from our first meet-up and new faces too, including several families who have just arrived in Sydney. We were a cosmopolitan bunch with people from England,… Read more

NSW Transport info or www.131500.com.au is the place to go for information about public transport in and around Sydney. If you are relocating to Sydney and plan to use public transport to get around you might enjoy a bus, light rail, train or ferry ride.

Public Transport Options in Sydney

Sydney metropolitan and outer-metropolitan areas are served by buses, light rail, trains and ferries. Depending on exactly where you live, you are likely to rely more… Read more