Darling Harbour Sydney

We walked under it, over it, across it. We sailed under it. We rode over it [on a train, not a horse - stupid!]. Can say with hand on heart we did the bridge good and proper. Yes folks we were back in Sydney and the bridge I am talking about is the Sydney Harbour Bridge. More on this later.

Big city needed big plans, so lots of planning …

Oh boy. Sydney.

Oh, but first of all I want to kind of apologize to everyone who thought we were going to make daily posts on this blog. Let me tell you, the luxury of internet was something we instantly felt was torn from our lives as soon as we declared ourselves backpackers. If you are reading this on a strong wi-fi or any sort of …

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I can't believe I spent New Year's Eve in Sydney. It's something I've always wanted to do and I can finally check it off my bucket list.

So we set of from Wuhan, China on 29th December and had stop overs in Shanghai and Melbourne. The flight actually took 22 hours which surprised us considering we're already in the …

Gisterenochtend na een mega relaxte vlucht (qantas is echt wel de max) aangekomen hier in Sydney. Er zaten wel zo'n 100 schoolkinderen op het vliegtuig maar daar heb ik eigenlijk geen last van gehad. Het eerste wat me hier wat tegenviel was het weer! Geen zon te zien maar heel de dag bewolkt geweest. Vandaag gelukkig al wat meer zon! Voor de rest …

When I arrived in Sydney, International Airport it was extremely large & Busy. I have never felt so scared, Nervous, Anxious and excited in my life. This was the start of my solo travel, My life was about to change, For good or Bad.. I yet wasn't sure.

I was meet by a lady from Real Gap Year which was the organisation I signed up for …

Day 1:
Arrived in Sydney @ 7.30am, Grainne and Gary picked us up from the airport, went for a yummy breakfast in the Grounds! Took the train to town and called in to Trica at work ... weather was horrible and torrential rain! Typical!

Day 2:
Our tour guide Trica took us to the Circular Quay, saw the Opera House and Harbour Bridge …

Entry containing 2 photos titled: Our 1st night in Sydney , Sydney Aquarium

We arrived late on Tuesday into Sydney airport, I have this weird feeling of coming home. Think it has something to do with arriving back in the same city twice, I felt like that in 2 months. Can't quite believe its only been 2 months, it feels like I've been away months. Our hostel is easy to find as its near the main station. Slightly on the …

Having left Singapore with the 'no city is better than Singapore' attitude, I really didn't expect Sydney to impress me. We were lucky- we didn't have to fork out money for a hostel (Sydney hostels are about $25 per person) as we had met a girl in Koh Tao who said we could stay at her place- she's still travelling around Asia- that's trust! Corinne …

We arrived in Sydney at 7am and straight away headed for the hotel. We were able to drop off our bags but unfortunately had to wait to check in. Whilst we were waiting we walked down to Darling Harbour and had some breakfast and then walked all around the Harbour to Circular Quay where the Opera House is based. We walked through the Royal Botanical …

... everywhere, but obviously not... Despite this, we'd had a good day, and a real bonus came when the boat returned via Darling Harbour, meaning that we sailed right underneath the Harbour Bridge. I could now tick off a few things on Donna's to do ...

... has gone on here just as quickly and will continue to do so, of course, after I fly away. My trek starts at Darling Harbour, in a windy and sticky sunshine that gets warm hands in under your coat and tempts you to lean sleepily against lampposts, ...

... been fortunate enough to have attended many of the events so far, including "The Lazy Kings" at the Olympic Park, "Jazz in the Domain" with James Morrison and the "Latino Festival" (which is held over eight nights at the ever popular Darling ...

... first race of the season so there was some prize giving. We had a few drinks and a bite to eat before we moved on to Darling harbour. Once there we took a few pictures of Dom and Martine by the waters edge, and then called it a night. 11th January ...

... haste, however it received quite a lot of praise for at least making more of an effort than the council did. THe decorations on Darling Harbour were few, but the local Novotel hotel worked out that if they turned off the "vot" in its Novotel lights, it ...

... found one advertised in a travellers office in town, called the number, and arranged a viewing. The house was at Ultimo, just by Darling Harbour, and we fell for the place straight away. We decided to take it. Meanwhile at the hostel.....we had a few ...

... back home, then it was off to town for a bit of christmas shopping. For christmas eve night we went down to Darling harbour for another carol concert with Catherine, Liz, and some of their housemates. Father Christmas joined the party by arriving by ...

... next 2hrs! Do our "big shop" for Christmas Day, buy our first slab of beer and then head out for Christmas Carols at Darling Harbour with Vicky, Stacey and Yvonne from our dorm. Meet up with Brian and Sharon who we haven't seen since Bangkok in September ...

Well, on the 9th January we said our farewells to New Zealand and caught our flight across the Tasman to Sydney, Australia! And it has certainly lived up to all of our expectations, with the sun, beaches and culture. We have visited a few of beaches ...

... they need including jobs, houses, healthcare, visas etc. I found a room on the accomodation board for a 3 bed house 100 yards from Darling Harbour with an 8 week minimum contract which is perfect for us. We phoned up and arranged to go and see it. It ...