Rydges Camperdown Sydney

... the Harbour Bridge towards Circular Quay on George Street (one of the main shopping streets) and into the centre of Sydney. After passing the Opera House then through Kings Cross, I decided to leave the tour at Hyde Park and head up the Sydney Tower. At just over 300m high, the tower provided some great views of the city and surrounds. I just about made it back to the hotel after getting lost, which after viewing the city from 300m high should have been more difficult to do!

... look at the domain web site with the house photos on it, which we have not previously seen. The house is being open for the first time today.

Walk down to the enormous, new marina, with hundreds of yachts, some very flash, some weathered genuine cruising yachts, some pretty strange. The water in the marina is quite clean, and the coral growing on the shore is quite ...

... bis die ganze sonne zu sehen war und viele fotos gemacht...
danach sind wir zum fischmarkt gelaufen (etwa 40 zu laufen) und haben den frischen fisch gerochen (ich hab ein bisschen mehr vom fischmarkt erwartet...aber immerhin wir haben es gesehen)
vom fischmarkt ging es weiter zum hostel (ein langer fussmarsch... aber das laufen sind wir ja mittlerweile gewoehnt.., :))
puenktlich um halb 9 kamen wir im hostel zum ...

... lot of drinking! We took a day trip to Sydney and visited all of the major sights - Sydney Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Circular Quay, The Rocks and Darling Harbour.

We also went to my uncles 60th birthday party, where we had a typical Oz bbq and caught up with the rest of the family.

... at me every 2 mins 'NO BRAKING!!!!!". We arrive at hanging rock and can not take the bikes all the way there, so leave them and climb to the cliff edge, taking some brilliant photo's on the way, and having to make tripods out of tree branches, now there is half metre gap (what looks like 5 tho) to jump over a gorge/canyon to get right to the edge, I fanny around for about 5mins before hurtling myself over, and then get the ultimate photo on the edge, about 1000m high, over the ...

... didn’t help that she chose to completely ignore us until we landed on the tarmac at Heathrow 12 hours later, and all of a sudden it was like we were best friends for the 40 minutes we were stuck out from the terminal.

There was no entertainment on this flight and the food was shocking (cooked within an inch of its death, then resurrected, and cooked to death again – was the way it was described by Si) and you ...

... mates. Canberra isn't so abd, we had a great night out and petes house where hans been staying is lovely! Was soo nice to spend a night in a house, nice bed, decent shower, cleanliness...pure luxury! However the bus back wasn't so great, followed by a long wait in the airport and a 9 hour fligth looming! All in all oz was brief but sydney is a great city and I would defo go back, though the traveller scene is very different over there! Asia here we come bring on the reunions!!

... familiar viktoor?) In the evening I head back to the opera house and bridge as there's a light show on in the city so the bridge is lit up in photos which somebosy has taken and turned into a beautiful display!Quite liking the opera house now........... And that's the end of Sydney!It's been a busy busy week but have totally loved the city!!! Have just arrived in Vietnam so will acquaint myself with the place now and will write again soon. love abi x x x x x

... worth wearing are tightly packing in my bag and would require more, unlocking, uncompressing, unfolding, searching through my bag, wearing said clothes then the washing said clothes, drying said clothes, folding said clothes and trying to stuff them into the overfilled-bursting-at the-seams- bag, because let's face it, I'm not folding that again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!why can't i just take my room on the plane, or better yet, my entire house???!!!!

... i wrote, we were in alice springs, but i was talking about climbing those bloody brilliant trees in the south-west of oz, where we return to now... walpole-nornalup region contd... so to recap, we're standing at the base of the first of the three climbing trees, the diamond tree, and i've just decided that i'm going to do my best to climb this first one and i'm taking my first steps onto the rungs, attached precariously and spiralling the side of this first tree. and just ...