Sydney Harbour

Over this past month of August we have been on the big wind down and preparing to leave Australia.
A massive to do/see checklist is getting peppered before leaving. The amount of stuff we have managed to gather up over the year is a little bit mental. A large box was required to send a few memento's home to Norn Iron. I have been in my new …

Apparently Sydney is having the coldest and wettest start to the summer since 1969!! Typical! We went on a round trip on the 'Manly' ferry, and had a great view of the Harbour bridge and Sydney Opera House. It was very windy, but luckily the rain eased up for a while. We walked around by the opera house and there were loads of girls in tiny, wispy …

Last weekend in Sydney!

I woke up to another wet morning and despite the weather departed for a short half day bus tour of the city's highlights. On the tour I stopped at several locations for views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Sydney Opera House, The Royal Botanical Gardens, The Gap (the entrance to Syndey Harbour), and Bondi Beach. The rain was light, but fairly …

For my last full day on vacation I didn't have anything planned as I might need to rest from all of my previous antics. I woke up to another wet and rainy morning and headed out to explore Sydney. Within a couple of hours, the weather cleared to a mostly sunny and hot day. After completing the Sydney Harbour BridgeClimb the day before I recieved a …

10.10.11
Got to Sydney at about 9 p.m. The flight was ok but I wasn't able to sleep alot so I'm reeeeaaally tired now.
Oh jesus... the Hostel I'm staying at is horrible!!! Dirty as **** and cockroaches everywhere. Thank god it's only this night. Ewww!!!
I was up most of the night calling home. Jetlag kept me up until 6 a.m and gave me …

Today we were both off work together and decided to make the most of it by being tourists! Yeah!
Firstly we went to the BEACH! It was still quite cold though, despite the clear blue sky and there was no sign of the infamous vet man who dwells in these parts (probably a good thing - Mark seems to have a uncharacteristic hatred though I cannot …

I traveled to Australia as a 15 year old Student Ambassador. My life has been for ever changed by this experience. I kept a journal while I was there to help me remember what I experienced, how I felt, and what I saw.---JS

I got off the plane after a 15 hour flight, I remember feeling quite terrible. A combination of homesickness, motion …

I'm back in Sydney at the Opera House again ... as we all know.

But today it dawns on me that I'm here alone at the Opera House for the first time ever. No brother, no ex boyfriend and no friends of any description are accompanying me.

Another realisation ... I am making visits to this southern hemisphere city almost as many …

I awoke as soon as the overnight bus arrived in Sydney at around 6.45am. Unlike my return to Perth and Brisbane, it felt proper strange to be back there! It was ******* it down, and with the doors to the Wake Up hostel locked I decided to check into the Sydney Central YHA instead and get my head down for a power nap…

Mr Ames, who I …

... matter. We girls weren't dressed for the weather and threw towels over our shoulders like capes when we walked across the Harbour Bridge. Saturday morning, after a heavy night partying, I joined new friends Ian and Matt for a slightly hungover BBQ at ...

... asleep once! My time in Oz was nearing its conclusion, and perhaps realising this, Rie and I went and sat down near the Harbour Bridge...until 4am! We virtually had Circular Quay to ourselves by that point, and it was pretty special as we looked out ...

... you've seen them so many times on TV and suddenly...you're there! I had to remind myself that I was in Sydney, but thankfully the harbour was stunning, and if anything surpassed expectations. We sat down at Circular Quay for half an hour and took in the ...

... , in Australia. There's the proof, clad in white tile and spotlights. After dinner we did a bar tour of Sydney. It seems that bouncers in Australia frown on people who wear "thongs" (flip-flops) to the bar, despite it being the uniform footwear of ...

After two days in Australia I've met no-one. I've been lying on the bed in the Sydney hostel thinking that if I had the option to jump back on the plane home right now, I'd take it; but I then I laugh at myself. First time abroad, first time travelling ...

This is Ben reporting. Sydney. Australia's largest city and, perhaps, it's most romanticised. With a population of 4.2 million and a size equal to that of greater London, Sydney truly is a place in Australia. I haven't visited Sydney, personally, in ...

... , back in for the second half of the performance, out for free drinks and canapes.  The famous midnight fireworks over the harbour would soon follow then it was more free drinks and food with live music until the early hours.  One of the best ...

... spent sitting around in a park for 6 hours waiting for the NYE fireworks. The wait was worth it though, as the entire Sydney harbour is lit up with fireworks going off from 10 different places and the harbour bridge being completely lit up with fireworks ...

... bottle of wine and a picnic overlooking the stunning architecture of the Opera House and the beautifully clear waters of the harbour. The bonus......, sunshine, long sunny days. From Manly we traveled across the water on one of the many ferries ...

... Rie again and we trotted down to the Opera House...again! I won't get bored of that view across the harbour in a hurry... Sunday was probably my favourite day in Sydney so far, as the weather was lovely and we managed to fit a lot in, beginning with a ...