Wednesday 7th December 2022
Benny headed off to work as usual at about 9.30am and we just lazed around in bed until about 11am. It was very cold today forecast for between 0-2° with a wind chill factor of -2°. Eek!! We need to kick start real exercise again so went off to the 50m indoor pool in the city near the theatre. It is a beautiful facility with all its little rules along the way.
1. Remove your shoes before walking through the change rooms
2. Shower before entering the pool
3. Wear thongs/scuffs in the pool area
They have fantastic change rooms, shower, lockers and private change rooms. The pool is fantastic as well. The room temperature in the pool area was over 29° and the water was 27°. Absolutely perfect. This time they only had one lane rope across 4 lanes which worked out really well for us as you can overtake down the middle, which was especially handy for Speedy Gonzales DB. We managed 1500-1700m. Neither of us even felt strange swimming on the right hand side of the lane as we have definitely adjusted to this on the roads. We even cross the roads looking the correct way now as well.

After our lovely swim, David with blow dried hair and mine a bit wet, we headed to meet Ben for a walk around the Christmas markets. We enjoyed some traditional foods and looked at the market stalls with their traditional ornaments, food and normal market fare. They really embrace the season. After a while we headed in to Galleria (like Myer) to drefrrost and enjoyed a nice chat in the cafeteria over coffee and hot chocolate. At about 4pm Benny headed back to work and we walked home in the very, very cold late afternoon fading light.

We waited for dinner with Ben at 9.30pm as he was sharing one of his special baked Christmas cheeses, blue cheese, another soft cheese and a truffle cheese, with warm bread x 4 kinds and salamis. It was very nice. We then enjoyed some chat time before heading off to bed late again. We are in the habit of going to bed after midnight. It was a lovely day.