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Travel Blogs from Sydney, Australia
Days 241-246
This is a top pick! ... It's fair to say in the last few days my plans have changed a bit but more about that in the next entry. I arrived in Sydney the following morning and the day was fresh without being cold. My hostel was the Sydney Central YHA and I was on the 8th ...
Touristy Activities
This is a top pick! ... are actually only about the length of my forearm. This makes them seem much cuter and cuddlier---but be warned! "Dangerous Animals of Australia," a book we read in the back of the CVA car, informed us that the male platypus keeps poison in the hollow ...
Sydney
This is a top pick! ... songs with meaningful lyrics that sounded more like Vera Lynn encouraging the troops to fight for good old Blighty! Sydney is a stunningly attractive city simply to wander around. Views from the Harbour Bridge,the Opera House and looking back ...
Jaws spotted in Sydney Harbour!!
This is a top pick! During the summer months Sydney has an open air cinema showing old and new movies every night for a couple of months. It's situated as Mrs Macquaries point in the Botanic Gardens with a fantastic view of the Opera house and harbour bridge. Seeing as we ...
Sydney
This is a top pick! ... Helen who she bumped into on the street. The Sydney Festival was also on so there were lots of events - no shortage of things to do. Managed to fit in some Bikhram Yoga also. Rough. All in all though, Sydney was amazing..can't wait to go back. ...
Take me to the place I love
This is a top pick! ... guy Nick and a German girl, Judy, who had a handshake like the jaws of death. One of the goofy, endearing things about Australia is the culture lapse between here and the States. In general, they're still living out the 80s, but popular music has a ...
The Eagle Has landed
This is a top pick! Greetings from Sydney Australia! I'm finally here. First flight to Frankfurt - 4.5 Hours , second flight to Bankok - 8.5 hours and finally third flight to Sydney - 8.5 hours... A grand total of 24.5 Hours, and that is just flight time. So at the airport ...
Rules of Engagement
This is a top pick! ... the type of thing that amuses me. The museum itself was pretty hard work and tiring due to the mass of information. Australia's history of all things Maritime is pretty long and vast and covers everything from Captain Cook to Ian Thorpe the swimmer. This ...
Super Sexy Sydney
This is a top pick! ... ferry trip across the water from the city centre. Here is where I met my good friend James Turner. James had travelled Australia once leaving college and lived in Manly before having to go back home. Once returning back home he sensibly got another VISA ...
The epitome of livin the dream!
This is a top pick! Lauren and Allie meet us for brunch at the swissotel and then we head off for a walk through Darling Harbor on our way to the fish market. Allie's dad meets us at the fish market and we enjoy a second brunch of scallops, sushi, oysters and ...
Cya Mate!
This is a top pick! Last day in the down under and saying goodbye to the dorm got handed some Swiss travel chocs for the road. With some time before my flight to Christchurch I headed down to Paddy's market for a browse to see if any warmer than a t-shirt bargains could ...
Working life begins
This is a top pick! ... had cancer. It is a very worthwhile cause that I am happy that I am providing some benefit to whilst being here in Australia and hopefully I will be able to actually lend a hand with volunteering myself but the checks here are pretty strict like they are ...
A Rocking Bridge
This is a top pick! Sunny morning = straight down to harbor for 'postcard' shots racing down before the clouds reappeared to then almost have to stand in line behind bus loads of Japanese posing identically one after the other. With that ticked off it was back for a ...
Thank God it's all over.... bring on 2009!
This is a top pick! ... I strangled the guy. It was New Year's Eve and Paul's in-laws have thoughtfully just purchased a rather incredible flat over-looking the Sydney Harbour Bridge. So together with Dave & Tracy and Phil & Kim (plus kids) from home we braved the crowds ...
The wonderful wizard of Oz..
This is a top pick! ... of sim cards and called home to let all know we were ok, before we decided on one of the numerous hostels based in Sydney. We booked in at Boomerang Backpackers based on William Street (just outside the notorious KIngs Cross) and then headed off into the ...
It's not hard to be a J-O-O on Christmas
This is a top pick! ... night, it was me. I went downtown to Cheers and Three Wise Monkeys (which only means anything to those who have been to Sydney). I'm always used to Christmas Eve being a quiet, slow night, but the downtown was as busy as I'd ever seen. Three Wise Monkeys ...
Takin' it to the Bridge
This is a top pick! ... decided to take a trip out to Jonny Wilkinson Stadium (in case you seppos have forgotten, that's the Olympic venue formerly called Stadium Australia where we won the rugby world cup last year). After waiting over half an hour for the bus in the rain I ...
Sydney Airport
This is a top pick! Arriving at Sydney airport and realising that you had to take a bus accross it compounded the fact that Adelaide is a small town. But it was only a stopover so nothing more to report, other than airport food is expensive and waiting for planes really ...
Melbourne Cup Madness
This is a top pick! ... sweeps so I managed to break even. Not bad. And I thought horse racing was big in Ireland? Anyway, enough about horses. Sydney is still great. The weather is getting warmer by the day, and very humid too which is apparently unusual here. When ...
Things to do on a Rainy Day
This is a top pick! ... plan was swung into action with Erin and I deciding to visit the Sydney Aquarium, just to keep up the water theme. Billed as Sydney's number 1 attraction (don't think there are many opera fans here) the fish prison was not a bad place to pass a wet day ...
Phase One Complete......
This is a top pick! ... cloths in our backpacks so we had to spend a fortune in the first couple of days to get some. Someone delightfully informed us that Sydney has now slipped just ahead of Dublin as one of the most expensive cities in the world. Great, the high prices are ...
Symphony in the Domain
This is a top pick! ... in order to grab a good spot. We played frisby for an hour or two before the show finally got underway. The Sydney Philharmonic Orchestra were performing free of charge and the line-up they had was as follows:- R STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra ...
Oh Sydney!
This is a top pick! Sydney... bloody cold! Sydney was certainly a strange place yesterday. Half the streets in the centre blocked off; so-called pilgrims absolutely everywhere and security guarding the Catholic cathedral. Several aspects I found rather ...
La Traviata
This is a top pick! ********************************** Wednesday 25th February Back in Sydney, free didgeridoo performance at the Outback Centre in Darling Harbour then went to find Nemo with all the other big kids at the aquarium. Great views of all the fish and animals ...
Home and Away
This is a top pick! ... you use it). Anyway, it's not a place I'd wholeheartedly recommend, but hey, it was cheap! Conveniently we were in town for Australia day, so we headed up to Hyde Park (no, really) where celebrations were in swing with jazz bands, food stalls and a ...
Anyone for lobster?
This is a top pick! To tick off an entry in the lonely planet guide, I went down to Sydney Fish market which operates daily and is home to many specialist retailers of seafood. There were many people there and a massive range of crabs, lobsters and many other things ...
Almost Home
This is a top pick! ... ; It was funny being back in the place were the seed was sown, having a holiday from our holiday. A definite highlight of Sydney was catching up with Lynn and Heath. We'd met them what felt a lifetime ago back in Varanasi, India. Guys ...
Happy Australia Day!
This is a top pick! Today is Australia Day. It wasn't as manic as I had expected, but it was still pretty lively all over the city. We had to do a bit of recovering from last night first, before we headed out after we had some brekky. We were both feeling a little rough. I ...
Bye to Carol and Tom
This is a top pick! ... well. By the morning, the concrete had been tarmacked over (if thats a word) but underneath is where we left our mark. They left Sydney in a bright red hyundai, ready to hit the road south on their way to Adelaide. Took them a good 2 hours to get out ...
All aboard the train!!
This is a top pick! ... and Kalgoorlie. There are options for city tours or mine tours which in Kalgoorlie is to see the super pit which is the biggest in Australia and in Broken Hill where my stop over was there was an option to see the city or do a mine tour. I chose to do ...