Crest Hotel Sydney

... but certainly would make the list of 'things that can scare you' in Australia! Today we toured the Sydney Jewish Museum, just a couple of blocks from our hotel.  They have a lovely exibit of the origins of the Jewish community in ...

1st four days - We stayed in the 4 star Carlton Crest Hotel beside Darling Harbour which is around the corner from Sydney's main harbour. There is lots going on there, loads of bars and restaurants, nice fountains and pathways to walk and easy access ...

... takeaway Thai food and then went to the Pier 26 bar for drinks with their really fun friends. That night, I moved to the Carlton Crest Hotel to meet my parents. My parents are on a Grand Circle Tour and we had planned to overlap here in Sydney. So, ...

... Colm had other, better plans. We drove down town and on a beautiful, clear, night I got my first close-up view of Sydney. It was gorgeous. We crest a hill down-town and I can see the tips of the Opera House peeking through some trees. We turn a corner and ...

... , struggle up to the top for some photos before dark.   We talk to the couple for a while (he looks local, she is from Sydney),  then we walk the length of the ridge, taking photos of the "Ella Gap" and the road snaking down the far side. ...

... better, she should just stick to intimidating the ‘wee lads’. It is funny how quickly you adapt to your surrounding. If in Sydney I took the wife and two kids for dinner at a nice hotel in the tourist part of town and ordered four meals, then ...

... worry about them going missing!!   I also try to repair my bag... hmmm yes I was lazy and dragged it back in Sydney up the stairs instead of trying to lift it and yes it ripped!! Hmmm safety pins and a bit of DIY sewing.... ...

... we spent our last hours in Oz with Joe and Lucy. We went to a popular lookout spot in Manley that overlooked the Sydney harbor. There we were surprised to find a bunch of fresh bandicoots, an animal resembling a possum, which were pestering a ...

... if they were in a tropical climate. And had crocodile warning signs everywhere.) We were staying in a much nicer hotel than Sydney for the same price, and spent our time either lazing round the pool or avoiding the tropical rainstorms which seemed ...

... was one of the strongest storms I think I've ever been in.  It didn't have the same intense electrical bolts as some in sydney but the amount of rain coming down was amazing.  The water on the road was so thick and bouncing up that we could ...

... . They were with Amanda’s mum and dad, Brian and Chantelle and two of their friends, Peter and Sandy, who live in Sydney. Brian was originally from Norwich but is now retired and living in Australia. Charlie and Adela, our USA couple from San Diego. ...

... successfully completed her first major test. Leg one of the journey was over and we had traversed, relatively uneventfully, the 2600km from Sydney to Cairns. Born in 1876 as a port access to the Hodgkinson River goldfield 100km away, Cairns is now one of ...

... cap was off. I attributed the malfunction to the extreme cold but later learned than I was using an unsuitable cassette. Back in Sydney I watched the four or five minutes of the boring footage I had managed to take in Montmartre and Nancy and decided that ...

... better, she should just stick to intimidating the ‘wee lads’. It is funny how quickly you adapt to your surrounding. If in Sydney I took the wife and two kids for dinner at a nice hotel in the tourist part of town and ordered four meals, then ...

... , who knows? On the way back we also passed a police stop in where we were motioned to stop. When we stayed in Sydney, Eric, a friend from Argentina, had told me about the police in Bali. Apparently they had a habit of asking for an international license ...

... and wind down (my waistline can attest to that). It was terrific to travel with good friends, especially as Tracy and Jill are moving to Sydney at the end of this month, so we won't likely see them for a few years. Tara and Greg are off to Maui next ...

... . DAY 14 TUE I had a pleasant chat with my hostess, whose plumby accent would be considered grossly affected back in Sydney. She corrected my pronunciation of Bicester, which was not By-cester but Biss-ter but I had become inured to humiliation and was ...

... carried along we swept through a group of people, later we met one of the couples; Keith and Julie, a delightful couple from Sydney whom we enjoyed talking to immensely, the conversation just flowing with ease. We stayed at a rustic little park near ...