Chinatown Sydney

Well, today was a full day of sightseeing. Darling Harbor and ChinaTown are both within walking distance. The sights here are beautiful and the harbor views are stunning. I must say, it is much different from Christmas time in the USA. Everyone over here is in shorts, hanging out in the sun, on the water etc. We walked to ChinaTown and had a lunch …

Ce matin j’avais prévu d’aller à Manly beach, mais mes coups de soleil m’en ont dissuadé, et j’ai donc décidé d’aller à Darling Harbour pour continuer à visiter le centre. A 10 min a pied du backpacker, je suis arrivé dans un récent centre urbain, tout moderne, qui se prolonge sur le port. Il y a des grands centres …

I woke up around 8am and headed straight to the airport. There was a shuttle service that took us straight from Port Douglas to the Cairns Airport. I was excited to leave Port Douglas...because it was easily the least underwhelming part of my trip thus far. Plus, I needed to leave the hotel and get back into a hostel where there were others there …

Free breakfast in this hostel. Nothing special - just cornflakes and toast, but it is free. You have to pay a deposit for a mug here, so I paid and was able to make myself a coffee, also free. After breakfast, I planned out my day.

American Pie was just starting when I went downstairs after getting ready, so I watched some of that, then …

After a short 3 hour flight from New Zealand we touched down in Sydney. Greg was looking forward to seeing his sister Kerry and excitement had been building as we knew that our time here would help us make our decision regarding a potential permanent move to. Kerry came to meet us at the airport AND paid for our taxi back to her place - thanks …

Chinatown has been on our 'to do' list for a while now so we decided that today would be the day and took a trip into the city. Unfortunately this was the one overcast day in about 10 days of clear blue skies so that was a little disappointing. We managed to find Chinatown fairly easily but it is spread over a wide area with little obvious …

Was very strange to be back in Australia …

(In English for our family members in Sydney)

We were very tired when we landed in Sydney airport, and decided to take the train straight to Wyong to Oli´s and Julie´s house. The train ride was around 2 hours and between little naps we watched the very beautiful scenery that this part of Australia has to offer.

Oli picked us up at …

Als es endlich aufgehört hat zu regnen gings in den Royal Botanic Garden und dann weiter zu Mrs Macquaries Point von wo man einen guten Blick auf Oper und Harbour Bridge hat.Am Nachmittag sind wir dann nach Chinatown wo wir auch gut und billig chinesisch gegessen haben.
Am Abend gings dann noch einmal zu Macquaries Point und Macquaries Chair um …

So, here I am, in Sydney Australia! And what can I say about Sydney… I LOVE IT!! I came with very few expectations – I never actually got around to reading the Lonely Planet guide I bought – but I was blown away by the beauty, the cleanliness and the easiness of Sydney. I was lucky that my cousin who lives in Sydney picked me up …

... Thankfully Rie is similar to me in that she doesn't like staying in the hostel for long, so after the movie we explored Chinatown and had another walk down to the harbour. This actually became quite a common scenario for us, and usually there'd be some ...

... , but again I resisted the temptation to sleep as I would have felt worse afterwards. Once again, we visited the market in Chinatown that night, and Rie bought herself a nice ring, but in truth I was more concerned about getting some much needed shut ...

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... including her Mum, granmother (now 87), and long-haired fundamental physicist brother Alvian. We enjoy an enormous banquet in a Chinatown restaurant. Rachel thinks the combination of dishes might be even tastier than what she has eaten in Hong Kong. ...

... that you can see the Harbor Bridge and the Opera House from absolutely anywhere in the city. You obviously ain't been to Chinatown, Bill! Once I did finally get there, of course, both are awesome. That section of town with the Rocks (historic district) ...

... at disused airfield to get a good look at the local Grey Kangaroos in the early morning. Drive through the Snowy Mountains to Australia's highest point - Mount Kosciuszko. Most of us pay $23 to take the chair lift up the steepest part. This leaves a ...

... bags. This sets me up for the rest of the week when I do decide to make dinner instead of cheating and going down to Chinatown for my usual $8 meals down Dixon St. However today I have been very good and with the fruits of my labour I made some homemade ...

... in the last month or so?" - I hear you ask. Well, James has left the house and is now somewhere in the middle of Australia. James left a couple of weeks ago as he is spending his last month in Oz seeing things that he has not seen yet, before spending a ...

... . A day of showers and a little sunshine later. Rene and I caught the bus into the City. We had a wander through Chinatown, then through Hyde Park which was once the colonies first racetrack and cricket pitch, but is now formal gardens with a grand ...

... money, and what with Laura and Fran coming, and the Australian GP to come, we're gonna need it. Today we went down to Chinatown to see the new years celebrations. It was out with the year of the Monkey and in with the year of the Rooster. Sydney ...