Luna Park Sydney

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Ons vorige blog is weer een maandje geleden. Maartje en Tim zitten al in het vliegtuig (andere vluchten) en er moest maar even een tussenblogje geschreven worden.

Na onze twee weken vakantie zijn we weer gewoon aan de slag gegaan. Willem heeft het eerste verslag alweer af, en gaat nog steeds elke dag hardlopen naar Opera …

Če je pesem Franka Sinatre Singing in the rain še vedno popularna, sem jo jaz danes preimenovala v Sydney in the rain, saj ta naslov definitivno bolj ustreza današnjim vremenskim razmeram. Kamp sva sicer zapustila v oblačnem vremenu, ki pa se je kasneje izneverilo. Toda velikih duhov to ne moti, imava en miniaturen zložljiv …

Met bijna een week in Sydney, heb ik de grootste "toeristische" attracties al gezien :)! Ik had het geluk dat Katherine hier was die een paar daagjes op bezoek was bij Gillian, daardoor kon ik met hun meegaan en aangezien Katherine ook nog niet echt iets van de stad had gezien gingen we naar alle leuken plekken toe!

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So I’ve moved into a hostel round the corner from Emma in Newtown called Billabong Gardens and have been making friends. Sati, the French girl in my dorm and a couple of randoms and I went to Featherdale Wildlife Park and had a great time (kind of wish I bought one of those Aussie hats with the corks from there now though). The weather was …

There’s no better place to begin than the very beginning. I landed in Sydney during the late afternoon on September 25th, after having spent a week in Fiji, unprepared as I usually am. I’d made sure to take cash out to get my duty free liquor, but hadn’t exactly gotten around to booking myself somewhere to sleep that night so …

Dropped Ella off at daycare again, and got the ferry from Manly to Circular Quay. Then a taxi to Luna Park around midday. The kids had a great time, and were still going at 5pm when I had to leave to go and get the dog - if you don't pickup by 7pm, they start fining you. I arrived at 6:59, got the dog, then drove back to Luna Park, where the kids …

Sooooooo lots has happened since Byron Bay....I will try to update as follows:

After a 14hr night bus from Byron Bay I arrived in Sydney by Greyhound......However, 6hrs into the journey we hit torrential rain where the vents gave way, so half way through my journey I had a soaking wet right leg!!! A few people were complaining to the bus …

Being in the best place in the world for New Year's Eve, it was hard to find the best place to go. People were telling us to go to Macquarie’s chair for the fireworks or any other vantage points for the fireworks but there are restrictions on alcohol and you have to start queuing up from like six in the morning and if the weather wasn’t …

An early start for a Saturday morning, we jumped on a Captain Cook ferry and tucked into a cooked brekkie (much needed for some, but I had Special K and yogurt) on our way over to Luna Park. I really like Luna Park with it's creepy 50's carny theme, although with 52 appointments in their conference facility Crystal Palace, there wasn't much time …

Sydney lässt wahrlich keine Wünsche offen – wer einmal hinreist, sollte sich genügend Zeit reservieren! Nicht nur der Central Business District (CBD) ist einen Rundgang wert, auch die etlichen Stadtstrände der zahlreichen Suburbs (Vororte) und vorgelagerten Kleininseln locken mit ihrem typischen Aussie-Style-Beach-Flair bei passendem …

... such a beautiful harbour is beyond me. That evening, we walked over the bridge to get even better views, and have a mooch around Luna Park. This is an old style mini rollercoaster park, and as the sun set the Sydney skyline lit up in the distance. As ...

... on to the Harbour Bridge, across it (taking time to look up and see all the little people climbing it), around the north shore where Luna Park is, before settling at Blue's Point. We had found our new years spot. We got the train back home as truth be ...

... a wider, softly sloped area on the right-side of the arch, looking down over the Opera House, the lights of the city, Luna Park and its joyously rotating rides, the twinkling lights on the ferries and the serene darkness of the Botanical Gardens. What a ...

... . That section of town with the Rocks (historic district) and looking across the harbor to Luna Park is pretty spectacular. The other thing I loved about Sydney was the fruit bats in the Botanical Gardens. Walking through the luxuriously green park, ...

... happily getting some really good shots of the Bridge, Opera House, CBD and also taking a walk over the bridge to North Sydney to Luna Park the iconic old school amusement park. It was a really satisfying night and really capped off my time in sydney and ...

... i can now say that i love the place. Ciara prefered the Harbour bridge which again looked marvellous as the sun set with the famous Luna Park Entrance lit up below it. The next day (today) we took the train back in to Sydney and went up to Bondi Beach. ...

We took Tim and Emily to Luna Park for a day at the funfair. I was a fantastic day out and we braved most of the rides, including the mouse, the tango, the spider and the dreaded vikcing ship! Tim and I had made a pact to go on the viking ship together ...

... location overlooking Sydney and then passed John Howards house in Kirribilli and then under the Harbour Bridge and passed Luna Park which is a Sydney Icon, its a sort of permanent fairground but is closed at the moment for refurbishment. We then headed ...

... like that, thoughtful stuff, considerate stuff, that I like him for. We drove down to Lavendar Bay which is the bay next to Luna Park and wandered from the bay down to the bridge via the park. Obviously there were plenty of people around down by the ...

... as the lights of the sky-scrapers light up. Beeautiful. Unfortunately we didn't get round to that this trip, but a quick ride across to Luna Park to catch up with my mates for a pub quiz at the Kirribilli Hotel was a great introduction to this mode of ...