Sydney
Trip Start
Nov 11, 2007
1
5
Trip End
Ongoing
Sydney,
Australia
Monday, December 17, 2007
so me and latch had a monster 14 hour flight which actually was as bad as the 7 hour one from london to toronto i thought. it was a pretty cool plane which had on demand films and mostly new ones like bourne ultimatum so the time whizzed by. almost forgot the dam visa place put my passport no down wrong so they couldnt find it at the airport, but luckily i could buy a holiday one at the airport so a clean pair of boxers where not needed!!
landed in the airport and met the very greasy picto who hadnt showered in 4 days or something, i actually though his hair was wet it was that greasy, he must have turned into a greaaasy lovvvvvvver in south america.
so like the other lads sydney will be abbreviated. booze, beach and dam shitty hostel!!! so of course there was copious amounts of booze had over the 3 weeks we were there. first 2 days we were buyin 24 bottles of beer for 40 dollars which is about 16 -17 quid, so we didnt think that was too bad. but after a few nites out we soon noticed this would nbot suit our cash flow situation. time for the goon!!! we didnt actually know wot goon was so picto and latch dodged off to find the halllowed drink. so they ended up having to ask the dude in the off licence. turns out goon is the big boxes of cheap ass wine u can get at home. but a lot cheaper. a 5 litre box is 15 dollars(6 notes) 5 litres is 7 bottles of wine which means in borat voice...... i like...very niiiice. and the name of the stuff we had was kaiser stuhl, the 1st nite we stuck to the rose and seemed nice enough so we didnt venture and other types. until crimbo day when the place was dry of nice rose and there was only soft dry red.the dam stuff was as dry as gandis sandal and far from soft, it was rough as. in true goon spirt we drank it anyway and suffered the consequences anyway.
so christmas day was very good, we went to a girls house that q and shaun new from home and they cooked dinner for 30 dollars a head, which was a god send cos we would have had dam all else on. the dinner was kick ass as well and then after a brief rest period it was time for some hardy drinking. i was nearly the first casaulty, slighty tipsy we started playing this game. i still dont know the rules. i was getting burned at every chance and was downing shots of some rotten concoction and was feeling it too. so i bombed out and took it easy for the rest of the nite, not after splashing a load of the dam soft dry red over my t shirt.
so the next few days where a bit quieter in the build up to nye, we had some planning to do for the spot we were gona pick for watching the fireworks. problem was the most of the good ones around the harbour didnt have bring your own booze. so we had a load of schemes thought of to try and get booze in. it said on the rules they checked the seals on all bottles so you couldnt get and spirits in. we even heard of some people who had cut a whole in a loaf of bread and hid a bottle in their lol. alas we where beatin for ideas we tried to get the lids off bottles and didnt work. so we humped off to theplace called mrs macquaries point and at about 10 in the morning, only to be met with a massive q, the biggest i'd ever seen must have been about a mile long and 4 people thick. we actually thought we werent gona get in but stuck it out and got in, in about an hour and a half. some dude behind us said he queued for 3 hrs from the same spot last year. so got in and found a good spot right at the tip of the park and a good view of the bridge. so ensued the marathon 9 hours of cards until the fireworks started.the crack was good all day and the place was buzzin, and even more so when we started drinking some fine wine. out of a bottle!! how posh are we, worked out cheaper than beer :) so the fireworks started at 9 for the childers and then the big one at 12. i actually lost the lads in the madness leading up to midnight but got a good spot to watch the show. it was the best fireworks we'd ever seen, the pics and vids prob dont do it justice but it can give u an idea.
we had another few quiet days after nye, we had to sort out stuff for goin up the coast. we had to get a car and so went to the travellers autobarn place, which was a rip off when i think back. so we headed to a place called kings cross car market where backpackers sell to each other without the middle man. this is where we found the wheels of steel, 1985 pajero. i think theres some pics of it ob bebo and the other lads so il try adding them all later. so we decided to head to blue mountains about 2 hours out of sydney to give the camping a dry run and test out the pajero wagon. we got there in one piece thanks to my expert driving of course. got the camp site up as soon as possible(ray mears swears by it), and headed off to the blue mountain park thingy. seen the 3 sisters rock thingy, again pictures will follow and done this crazy walk with the most steps id ever walked. steps down to the bottom of about half the mountain and along the ridge and back up the other side. i was dam sick of steps after that must have done about a 1000 lol, well seemed like it at the time.
back to sydney for the final prep before we went, camping stuff and all the boring car stuff.
ps we didnt just drink for 3 weeks we also seen the opera house and the harbour bridge.
you might get lucky and il do some of the coast stuff later while we wait for this boat!!
