Until I had experienced it personally, I admit I had no idea how pragmatic Tara’s warning on Sydney’s peak hour traffic was. With a population of over five million people residing in the heart of a single metropolitan city, it wasn’t difficult to see how disjointed the flow of traffic was. The clichéd term ‘bumper-to-bumper’ was exactly how the author of the particular term described it and, despite leaving my brother-in-law’s residence at seven-thirty that morning, I still managed to get stuck in a twenty-minute traffic jam.
It had been my plan to venture into Helen’s former territory of Redfern in Sydney’s western suburbs. Redfern was known for its soaring crime rate and large Aboriginal population. I wasn’t very familiar with the area so I was eternally grateful for the rental car’s in
