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Sydney Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Sydney, Australia
Australia Part 3 - Final. Sydney and Chakola
This is a top pick! ... this, however I am simply recording my feelings, which are based on my experiences in Sydney. Hmmm, a positive point - I have noticed on this trip to Australia that many people are now using permanent shopping bags instead of disposable plastic bags. ...
Crossing Those Bridges
This is a top pick! Back in Australia after a month away! Don't worry, I've retained my abilitly to look right-first, left-second when crossing roads. Met up with Campbell at Central Station and we took my bags up to the hotel where his Dad was putting us up for the next two ...
Australia Day
This is a top pick! ... - we have become used to the pleasant cool sunshine of Tasmania. The traffic isn't too bad though because its a public holiday - Australia day. Yolanda informs us that we can go and see the fireworks later on that night. I ask her what Australia day ...
Paddy's Day Down Under
This is a top pick! Took me a few months to get here, the largest, most famous city in Australia, but I made it. For the first few days I stayed at an ultra mellow hostel in Glebe, an artsy community north of the inner harbor. I loved this place and the diverse ...
Grand Prix, Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... got lynched for complaining about the Guiness! The next day Thomas, Tony, Sarah and I hired a car to take us back to Sydney. We managed to amuse ourselves on the 12 hour journey with stops for fish feeding, mini golf (or putt putt as it's called ...
Wimbledon comes to Sydney
This is a top pick! 19th January 2005 Today I went diving! We met a couple, Dawn and Gary at Mrs Macs point when GMTV were there in december doing a live feed back to the UK (which no bugger at home was able to spot us on) so me and Gary went diving off Bondi beach. It ...
Australians wouldn't give a XXXX for the cup!
This is a top pick! ... going to go to Taronga Zoo today across The Harbour but decided to leave it till a really nice day! Instead we headed to Sydney Aquarium in Darling Harbour which is by far the best Aquarium we have ever been too. They have everything from baby platypus ...
Yes!! We're off!
This is a top pick! ... well he would be at the end of our stay in Sydney so had to take into account all possibilities including remaining in Australia. For some reason having overseas experience doesn't count for much in the IT field though. In fact if you've never worked ...
Week Twenty Seven - Sydney
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Bday Freebie Friday
This is a top pick! ... three which was a Captain Cook Cruise down the Middle harbour including lunch. The cruise was quite good as the woman told us about Sydney and its history about the places we were passing by also a free tea/coffee and cakes box were thrown in the package. ...
Everything's a dollar!
This is a top pick! This is a love it or hate it past time for some people as its the mad rush for consumers to get very cheap fruits and vegetables instead of spending 4 times the amount in the supermarket. I for one love hustle and bustle and pushing people around...I ...
It a beach life
This is a top pick! ... one of our mates decided to go skinny dipping in after a night out. Thankfully he is still all in one piece! The great thing is that the beaches in Sydney has provided us with just a taster of what is to come throughout our trip around ...
Goodbye New Zealand, hello Sydney!!
This is a top pick! ... off after a bit, and we went for a wander around the harbour, and to an area called The Rocks, which was the first settlement in Australia, and therefore as you can imagine, it used to be a right dodgy place to be! Nice now though, and we had a taste of ...
Sydney, Australia - Fun, Friends, Food and Wine...
This is a top pick! ... I think the Duck-Billed Platypus probably won the day as the most interesting creature we saw. BTW, as many of you know Australia was originally added to our travel itinerary due to Kayla's very strong desire (to put it mildly) to see the Crocodile ...
Party Time!
This is a top pick! ... for a while which was a great fireworks show to see. Then the real drinking began with us going to all the bakpacker bars in Sydney - Scary Canary, Sidebar, Scubar and the crazy one again The Gaff. The bus was to pick us all up at 2am needless to say no ...
Games in the pinkcake
This is a top pick! My last friday night in Sydney was spent with the most loveliest of housemates a girl could ever have and dinner consisted of homemade Japanese cuisine and Dominoes pizza. We all just chatted and played this Simpson's board game which if I'm honest the ...
Here at last!
This is a top pick! Well, I finally made it...26 hours and one missed day later. Let us mourn for the Oct 5, 2005 that I will never live. Anyway, everything has gone really smoothly - I didn't even have to put all my stuff through the screening machine again. I found the ...
The Sydney Appraisal
This is a top pick! ... the sensation that is Vegemite and Toast. I stayed at the Wake Up Hostel which is on one of the main streets of Sydney centre which is pretty much filled with British people but have also come across many other nationalities which has been very cool to ...
Moving in the Pinkcake
This is a top pick! ... a 25 min walk up the road. It's nice to call somewhere home away from my actual home...also the lack of central heating in Australia will prove an issue while it is 'winter' in the night. To explain - the flat is referred to Pinkcake...hence the title. ...
Chapter 2 - Australia
This is a top pick! Today we begin Chapter 2 of our trip - Australia. After a couple of easy days in Wellington, we start travelling again in earnest. The Qantas flight lands in Sydney at around 5pm. We sail through customs, our bags are the first on the carousel, the ...
Can I get a Taxi to the Midnight Shift?
This is a top pick! Now with Sydney being a city with a population of a large group of GBT's (thats gay, bi and transgender) a visit to the gay clubs out here in Oxford street is a must...I don't think there is much to say other than it is a great night out albeit crazy but ...
Relaxation!
This is a top pick! Hey everybody! Well we havn't had much planned this weekend but in the end, it turned out to be really good! Sorry to rub it in, but while you guys have been stuck in doors due to your rubbish weather, we have spent the last 3 days on the beach with ...
walking, walking, and more walking...
This is a top pick! ... , 7 days a week, living in a tent. Ummmm, no thanks. So having settled that, I went to figure out the rest of my life in Australia. And of course, true to my luck with phones, of course I ran into a problem with it being locked, which the lady at the ...
Sydney Pt 1
This is a top pick! ... station. It says of Kings Cross in the guide book that the area '... is a mixing pot of petty criminals, prostitutes, travellers and Sydney-siders after an exotic night out. Add to this a dash of strip clubs, sleaze and drugs & you have Kings Cross - ...
A day with tom and chris!!
This is a top pick! hi everyone. well firstly let me tell you all about my fun day at work!!!!! basically i get dropped off somewhere in sydney and spend all day knocking on doors trying to sell ppl sim cards, after a while ppl slammimg doors became a routine!! It was ...
Mission: Make Money
This is a top pick! ... we finish work the TravelPod entries will be more of a weekly entry; with the highlights of our time in the 'Real Capital' of Australia. So don't go away - just because we're not doing as much doesn't mean we won't have some interesting tales to tell ...
Flying into Sydney
This is a top pick! ... than in Auckland, and I was really looking forward to walking about the city tomorrow not needing a jacket. Whilst driving in Sydney the differences with Auckland were immediately apparant - we didn't see one personalised plate and most of the cars were ...
Sydney
This is a top pick! ... from our time in the U.K. staying over at their house in a lush area on outskirts. Our first outing into central Sydney was via the excellent ferry service that departs frequently from Manly, bringing Circular Quay right to your doorstep. I really ...
Driven 6,000km and we arrive back in Sydney
This is a top pick! ... up bowl to fit it – all we were missing was the kitchen sink. We got our final self cooked tea in Australia and had another chicken thigh satay with linguini (one of our favourite camping meals). We had a hard task polishing off the rest of ...
Short stay in Sydney
This is a top pick! Glebe was our first stop in Sydney – a chilled out suburb in the 'inner west' area. We arrived there late after dropping the campervan and got stuck into one of our bottles of wine from Clare Valley – sophisticatedly drinking it out of mugs! ...