Surry Hills, Single-O window-bench, the corridor opens

Sydney lands at seven-fifteen. Hotel-drop at Paramount-House, then straight to Single-O on Reservoir-Street. Window-bench seat, third cup before the corridor opens.

The Surry-Hills-Anglo-creative-coffee-pendler crowd is dense at nine. Reservoir-Street feeds into Crown-Street and Crown feeds the whole Surry-Hills agency-belt. Two suit-jacket-plus-trainers figures already at the counter discussing a Vault-Sydney-edition.

Coffee is the corridor. The corridor is the coffee. Yesterday I left Melbourne with a Heide-late-light still in the eye. Today is a new daylight, a different population at the bar.

Brief-Klassen-Sichtungen so far: one Surry-Hills-Anglo-creative-male early-thirties at the counter (Vault-coded), one Anglo-Australian-coastal-female late-twenties at the window-bar with a heavy-paperback (Bondi-pendler-line). Both tracked, neither approached. The afternoon-route will tell.

Skybus is in the rearview, the corridor is the next nine hours.