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It's Raining Beaches, Sydney, Australia travel blog

It's Raining Beaches

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat

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... trail crawls along the edge of steep coastal cliffs, through vine-covered backyards and along secluded bays. We passed the old Sydney cemetery, which has a great cliffside view; the dead can stare out from their shining white crosses at the endless ...

Visiting my cousin..., Sydney, Australia travel blog

Visiting my cousin...

A travel blog entry by rich

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... 's certainly a lovely part of the world and like I've said, I'll be back in the future... The train journey back to Sydney was enjoyable as amongst other things, Rie and I messed about writing Japanese on eachother's hands. For the umpteenth time, she ...

First sighting of the Opera House..., Sydney, Australia travel blog

First sighting of the Opera House...

A travel blog entry by rich

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... surpassed expectations. We sat down at Circular Quay for half an hour and took in the views, and already I had a good feeling about Sydney. The people I'd spoke to before either loved it or hated it, but how you can hate somewhere that is home to such a ...

Party Down Under, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Party Down Under

A travel blog entry by bowney

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... Aquarium, so spent the day doing that. The Wildlife world was really good, they had all the deadly spiders and snakes in Australia, huge kangaroos, and the best bit was our Koala Bear cuddling!!! We went in the enclosure for our snaps, and they didn't ...

Brits Abroad, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Brits Abroad

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat

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... , 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 all ...

Rescue from Uncertainty, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Rescue from Uncertainty

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat

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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 ...

Sydney Sightseeing, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Sydney Sightseeing

A travel blog entry by jackie_n_james

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... for some attractions. First we took the bus to the Sydney Wildlife World and checked out all the land animals of Australia then we went to the Sydney aquarium and checked that out for awhile; we didn`t get to see the platypus though cz it was hiding :( ...

Sydney Fish Market, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Sydney Fish Market

A travel blog entry by carolandthomas

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Sydney fish market is about a 10 minute walk from our house and it is fantastic. Situated by the water (as you would expect!) it has everything you could want inside and tables to eat it on outside. We went there for dinner and ended up having tuna ...

Blue Mountains, NSW, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Blue Mountains, NSW

A travel blog entry by carolandthomas

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For a much needed weekend out of the forever hectic and buzzing city the Blue Mountains sounded perfect and it's only $11 dollars to get there on the train so we packed a bag and headed off. The area is known as the blue mountains due to the ...

The Final Days, Sydney, Australia travel blog

The Final Days

A travel blog entry by carolandthomas

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Muh - it's almost over!! Here we are now into our final few days in Australia, and our entire traveling adventure is almost over. We are staying with Katie and Paul again and it's fantastic to see them and Ted and Em again. We teach the kids how to ...

Sydney is Heaps Good Mate!, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Sydney is Heaps Good Mate!

A travel blog entry by benleah

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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 my ...

Manly Coastal Walk, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Manly Coastal Walk

A travel blog entry by rich

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... , and it was nice...despite someone being completely laid out on the grass in front of us, presumably after a heavy night! We'd passed the Australia Museum on the way to Kings Cross, and for the sake of $10 we decided to go inside on our return. I ...

A Day of Rest, Glebe, Sydney, Australia travel blog

A Day of Rest

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat

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... on her own, too, but today I just felt like being on my own for the day, for the first time since my second day in Australia. It was pouring rain in the morning but that quickly disappeared. I went for a long run to explore the neighbourhood, and then ...

Sydney Locals, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Sydney Locals

A travel blog entry by carolandthomas

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Just a few photos of the wildlife to expect in a day around Sydney... Still not used to seeing such amazing birds and animals within the city ...

New Years Eve in Sydney - unforgettable!!, Sydney, Australia travel blog

New Years Eve in Sydney - unforgettable!!

A travel blog entry by marshallmatters

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... nbsp; So, about four weeks prior, we made the decision to make the most of this 'once in a lifetime' opportunity of being in Sydney at New Year and paid to spend the evening at the opera house. What an opportunity.  The itinerary for the night being ...

Our Sydney Pad, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Our Sydney Pad

A travel blog entry by carolandthomas

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We have had three and a half months living in Sydney,most of that time spent in our little house in Ultimo with Tony, Sarah, Rob and Nic. And due to the fact that we had a leak in our room and the bathroom ceiling threatened to cave in we have been ...

Some Oz fun down under, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Some Oz fun down under

A travel blog entry by carjack83

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... and the scenary was amazing. From Melbourne, we flew up to Brisbane to spend 2 days before driving to Sydney. One day we went to the famous Australia Zoo (Steve Irwin's aka the crocodile hunter), and the next we pottered around the city. We drove down ...

Good morning Sydney!, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Good morning Sydney!

A travel blog entry by budz888

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... at the sun on a computer monitor I still feel as though I should be looking at the screen with sun-glasses on... View of Sydney from David's of course. Bit corny I know... but might as well have one with me in it too... Slept on the ...

The Perils and the Pleasures, Sydney, Australia travel blog

The Perils and the Pleasures

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat

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... around with laughter at the repetition of Steve's call. Finally I had him call the Nomads Maze, where I stayed when I first arrived in Sydney, and they had enough space to squeeze us in for the night. The next day we went out to Coogee Beach for a ...

G'Day Mate - you've arrived in Sydney!, Sydney, Australia travel blog

G'Day Mate - you've arrived in Sydney!

A travel blog entry by carolandthomas

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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 ...

The beautiful city of Sydney, Sydney, Australia travel blog

The beautiful city of Sydney

A travel blog entry by marshallmatters

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... was that architects struggled to build the design as technology had not encountered such a design before. A brief history: Planning for the Sydney Opera House began in the late 1940s and formal construction of the Opera House began in March, 1959. The ...

Sunburnt in Sydney, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Sunburnt in Sydney

A travel blog entry by jsnicka

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... house and bridge. The next day woke up early to do the 7km walk from Bronte beach to the most famous beach in Australia, Bondi. The walk was fantastic and the cliffs and beaches are spectacular. After winding down from that I walked into downtown ...

Lots to do..., Sydney, Australia travel blog

Lots to do...

A travel blog entry by rich

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... . A quick visit to the Queen Victoria Building for a smoothie and some photographs followed, before we returned to the hostel...via KFC! I was having a great time, and I already consider Sydney to be my favourite city in Australasia by a country ...

Leaving Sydney, so sad!, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Leaving Sydney, so sad!

A travel blog entry by madman96

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Phin left this morning after one of the best reunions in the history of man.  Sydney was quite the random forum for this overdue meeting of two old friends, but my guess is that we would have had as much fun regardless of where we had met back ...

Family, Misery (football not family) and Zoo Life, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Family, Misery (football not family) and Zoo Life

A travel blog entry by mills-mcshea

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... could we possibly want? The zoo is pretty fantastic, especially after zoos in India etc, and it has a fantastic view over Sydney harbor, lucky bloody giraffes, that's prime real estate! A great day was followed by a long night with Carl watching the ...

Last Sensations of Sydney, Sydney, Australia travel blog

Last Sensations of Sydney

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat

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... an office tower behind the Three Monkeys Bar! that indicate that even as my life went on after I took off into the wilds of Australia, life has gone on here just as quickly and will continue to do so, of course, after I fly away. My trek starts at ...

Latino Festival, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW, Australia travel blog

Latino Festival

A travel blog entry by jawad

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One of the summer highlights when living in Sydney is the annual Sydney Festival - a feast of Arts and Culture packed into twenty two days. I have been fortunate enough to have attended many of the events so far, including "The Lazy Kings" at the Olympic ...

Election 2004, Sydney, NSW, Australia travel blog

Election 2004

A travel blog entry by jawad

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... propaganda and advertising related to the elections that were held here today. I was surprised to discover that everyone in Australia votes every three years, it's compulsory. And the ballot papers give the option of ordering all the candidates (for ...

And they are still here........., Sydney, Australia travel blog

And they are still here.........

A travel blog entry by tonyandsarah

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... in the bedroom but i doubt Martine will allow it. We went home to get ready for the night out. Due to the tsunami tragedy, Australia put together a telethon, broadcast live from the opera house. We bought 6 tickets for $25 each, which all of it went to ...

No smokes, no beds make Jlaire a dull boy, Sydney, Australia travel blog

No smokes, no beds make Jlaire a dull boy

A travel blog entry by jlaire

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We arrive in Sydney at 6:30 am (australian time, but the middle of the night for us.) We quickly realise that there is nowhere to smoke, and (slightly) more importantly, nowhere to sleep. Although all the staff are overly nice, 'sorry darling,' 'noo ...

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