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Sydney Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Sydney, Australia
End Of A Long Leg
This is a top pick! ... and the drop off was quick and painless. We'd driven almost 3,700 kilometres down from Cairns, bringing our total in Australia to over 11,000 and beyond 16,500 including New Zealand. Jason's rough calculation estimated that between driving and ...
Luna Park Funfair
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Queens and Poodles at Fair Day, Victoria Park
This is a top pick! Fair Day at Victoria Park is one of the events held in the run up to the Mardi Gras parade in March. It's basically an opportunity for everyone to get in the spirit and have a few drinks and a laugh. I was honestly astounded at the number of poodles ...
Bridge Climbers
This is a top pick! Some years ago DH had made a pilgrimage to Sydney Australia in order to participate in the World Police and Fire Games but, given the extraordinary volumes of beer that was apparently part of the championship diet of the Metro Toronto Police ...
The Hibernation Ends
This is a top pick! ... day.... well, it ain't exactly living it up. Erin will tell you that it's like night and day seeing me here in Australia. The weather is beautiful -- warm during the day with a nice ocean breeze, then cooling off at night. We left these two swinging ...
One more sleep to go......
This is a top pick! ... we were (he is on the Gold Coast at the moment but lives in Sydney), he is still planning to meet up with us for a beer on Australia Day on the 26th Jan. We then moved on to O'Malleys Irish Bar. This place had a great atmosphere. It was packed, not too ...
Merry Christmas....from the Beach!!!
This is a top pick! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE Forget the Queen's Christmas Message, this is mine : Whenever you have a sad moment, or a bad moment, remember that it is only a moment in a very long lifetime. Pick yourself up and give it another shot. Try and smile ...
City architecture
This is a top pick! Pictured here are just some of Sydney's contrasting buildings and structures that I've captured on film...Well okay, not real film, the digital ...
Sydney
This is a top pick! Alex: We had a wonderful time in Sydney, didn't do much sightseeing but caught up with a few friends instead. We stayed with Janine and Sean who have just moved to Sydney, and being good hosts they whisked us to the pub as soon as we got to town, lunch ...
No Job!!
This is a top pick! ... attacks are on the increase here too, twice as many as normal). They even had a platypus tank which was cool. It really was fantastic, highly reccommended. Anyway, thats the story here in Sydney. There's some photos attached if you're ...
Sydney - Day 245-249
This is a top pick! ... , even for someone as clueless as me. Certainly a good way to spend my last night in Australia! I walked back to the hostel and enjoyed the beautiful Sydney harbour cityscape at night for one last time. Well for this trip anyway. I've really enjoyed ...
Australia - Sydney
This is a top pick! ... . We got even further behind schedule as we bumped into Aaron and Lisa (couple previously spoke to) over breakfast and chatted about Australia and our travels for an hour. Leaving a bit later than planned we made our way to Circular Quay to catch the ...
We are sailing, we are sailing......
This is a top pick! ... they stopped people getting on - and went for a swim in our pool. I then watched some of the Boxing Day Test Match between Australia & South Africa on the TV. It's played in Melbourne. I'm looking forward to the two One Day Internationals that we've got ...
Avoiding the kitsch in Sydney
This is a top pick! ... that, I'd only ever seen the opera house on postcards and TV programs and if you'd asked me if I was going to ever go to Australia last year, my answer would have been "no"! But having seen it and just how big it really is, I felt just happy I'd made it ...
Australia - Part 1
This is a top pick! ... . Also quickly caught up and went for a run with Emma, her mum and friends. Everyone seems good. Initial impressions of Australia are of a spacious, well treed (it has a reasonable number of trees in the suburban areas), clean and quite wealthy ...
Ahhhhhh (Said in Opera voice)
This is a top pick! ... and had coffee and read my book until it calmed down. Today is nice and sunny though , and when I get back to Sydney after New Zealand I will really start sightseeing and museum trotting and garden walking , and everything. I'm off to ChristChurch! If ...
Sydney Baby! The Real Australia!
This is a top pick! ... ! It was a relatively short flight to Sydney. It all started to become real when we flew over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House. Yes I had been in Australia for nearly 3 weeks now, but it hadn't felt like I had arrived. We were barely in ...
Enlightened by the arts
This is a top pick! ... in the Gujarat state so there's not much digging around I have to do if I wanted to delve into my family history more than I already know off. The HPB place a great perspective on the journey that built Australia (or at least Sydney) to how it is today. ...
Update from Down Under
This is a top pick! ... is ARE YOU ON BUDGET? YES, annoyingly so, smack on the budget. I was going well behind budget, but New Zealand and especially Australia are bloody expensive. I'm cutting it a bit short in Australia, so I can spend more time in Asia - a lot better ...
Week Twenty Eight - Sydney
This is a top pick! ... In'. Sit eating it on the water side surrounded by hungry gulls. Over the other side we head into Australia's Number One Tourist Attraction - The Sydney Aquarium. It costs $24 each and we meet Kendra from our bus trip from Melbourne in the queue. Apart ...
Sydney - Our Third Visit, Part One
This is a top pick! ... became interested in the information and the sights within. The main draw for me, was the chance to tour round inside Stadium Australia, now known as the Telstra Stadium. This was the venue for the athletic events of the Sydney Olympics, and of course ...
Working 9 - 5 its so hard to make a living!!!
This is a top pick! ... our way back down the scenic road home stopping at Wollombi, a little village, for lunch. We got back to Sydney in time to see the Australia Day firweorks from our balcony with a bottle of HV wine! Tuesday 27th January Back to work and nothing else ...
Last day in Sydney for a while.
This is a top pick! ... leave our hostel at 4am for our flight - so the outlook is for a grumpy Lorna tomorrow!! We have really enjoyed our time in Sydney much more than we could have expected. We are looking forward to coming back on the 21st for a week. Over the past two ...
Asia Observations and Travel Tips
This is a top pick! Well, I'm stuck for writing about Sydney. Don't know where to begin. And so, I'll get all my last Asia observations out of my head and give some important travel tips to anyone thinking of making the trek. Observations: Hygiene -- The more time you ...
Noosa to Sydney
This is a top pick! ... bus to Sydney to get our flight. 15 hours to Sydney, 18hours travel on a bus in total. nice! 13th July 2005. We arrived in Sydney at 6am and went back to our old house to see Leanne and Richie. Richie was off to work and Leanne got up to gossip ...
Paradise City
This is a top pick! ... King's Cross has for a long time been known to most Australians as the drugs and red light capital of Australia. Most Australians who have visited Sydney at one time or another have wandered through the Cross, if only for a look at how the "other ...
Bye bye campervan - hello big apartment!!
This is a top pick! ... go!! We ended up paying the toll and going over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Got to say it was a great way to enter Sydney! Mmm, never thought I would say it was great to enter Sydney, or any bloke for that matter!! We checked into Parkridge Apartments ...
Visiting Sarah, Phil and Caitlin
This is a top pick! ... their 5year old daughter Caitlin (who is already adamant that she is Australian not English!!). There must be something about us being in Sydney that affects the weather cause we had a lot of rain again this weekend but we still had lots of fun and some ...
Day 57-63: Sydney (Week 4)
This is a top pick! ... but I guess that's to be expected coz it's cheap as chips. Wandered around and ended up in MYER which is one of Australia's big department stores - actually had quite a lot of nice stuff, but more than I wanted to spend - however got a bargain pair of ...
Day 197-203: Sydney/Katoomba/Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... Started off in a bar called Diva...very quiet and quite small so only had one drink there - and they're more expensive than Sydney!!! Thought that Syd would be the most expensive place in Oz. Moved on to the Xchange Hotel - $9 door charge!!...god this ...