I ate all the pies (Sydney, Australia)

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  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Saturday, May 3, 2008

Hey Dudes and Dudettes.
I am still in Byron Bay driving the minibus at the moment. I had to work six 14 hour days in a row last week as the other bus driver went a.w.o.l!
The weather has turned nice again which is awesome, although it is freezing at night.  
I have officially given up writing my diary as I am two weeks behind. Also, this is going to be my last blog as I really can't be bothered to type this crap up any more.

This is the blog for my first days in Australia. I didn't do or see much in Sydney as I was constantly hungover and feeling like crap because of my cold.

Tuesday 29th April
We landed at Sydney Kingston Airport just after 11am. Getting through the security checks took well over an hour. It was even worse than England and New York. I couldn't remember if I had booked a free transfer to my hostel or not, so I hung around for a while just to see if anyone turned up. Nobody did, so I got the train to Kings Cross station, just down the road from the Wood Duck Inn which I booked before I left England. Buying the train ticket made me realise how expensive Australia was going to be after my two months in Asia. At the hostel I got my room key and went to check out my 6 bed dorm. Everyone was out and the room was an absolute crap hole. It was really dirty and people's stuff was all over the place. The room had three ricketty looking bunk beds in it and that was it. I left my bag and then went out to see a little bit of Sydney. I got some food and went to sit in Hyde Park, which was just up the road from the hostel, until the sun went behind the high-rise buildings. I decided to head to the Sydney Opera House, via the Royal Botanical Gardens, as the sun was still shining down there. The Opera House was a spectacular sight. From there you can also see Sydney Harbour Bridge and groups of people walking up it. Once the sun ducked behind the bridge it good bloody freezing so I headed back to the hostel to meet my room mates. I met an English couple, Adam and Louise, two French guys, DJ and Sebastian, and a hot German girl, Sarah. Soon after I arrived Adam, Lou and the French dudes left to go out so I sat and chatted with Sarah for a few hours. It was her last night in Australia after 8 months of travelling and working so she invited me out with her and Timo, a Dutch guy who worked at the reception of the hostel. We went to an amazing pie shop on the way - my first pie of many in Sydney - and then to a really cool bar where they served cocktails in a teapot. You order what cocktail you want and however many shot glasses you want and then you just pour the shot from the teapot! Me and Sarah managed to get about 8 shots each out of one. Timo could get free pints of beer as he worked in the hostel so he was constantly going to the bar to get more for all of us. Towards the end of the night every time we got a beer we got a Jaeger Bomb as well. At 3am Timo was going to meet his friend in another bar. Sarah was occupied chatting to two German guys, so I decided to go with him. By the time we had had a pint and chatted outside it was 4.30 so I went back to the hostel for some sleep. Sarah's flight was at 8am so she had set an alarm for 5am. Just after 5 she came back, made a lot of noise, grabbed her bag and went straight to the airport!

Wednesday 30th April
I woke up at 11.30 feeling hungover so I decided to head over to the Botanical Gardens to chill out for the day. I wandered around and sat writing my diary until 4, when it got really cloudy and cold. Back at the hostel I found out that it was Adam's last night in Australia so everyone was going out to party. We went down to the pub below the hostel a couple of hours later. Everyone from the room was there as well as a group of English guys and girls from other rooms in the hostel - Gaz, Hayley, George, Jonny, Maz and a really pissed guy, Phil, later nicknamed Philly Savage due to his uncanny, but unfortunate, resemblence to Paul O'Grady! Every five minutes or so he would come up to me and say: "What's your name? Are you staying at this hostel?". This happened at least 5 times! After a couple of hours we went to another bar, which was just as dead as the last one, before heading to a club called Side Bar. The DJ was awesome so we stayed until it closed. I have no idea what time that was though! The slow walk home took us via a pie shop - my second of the day!

Thursday 1st May
I woke up feeling terrible for the second day in a row. Not only was I hungover, I had a stinking cold which I managed to catch in Beijing. I ended up lounging around the hostel most of the day as the weather wasn't that great. The only time I ventured from the building was to go to an internet place. When I came out of it it was absolutely chucking it down and I was in my shorts and t-shirt which probably didn't do my cold any good! I spent most of the evening trying to cheer up Lou as she was upset that Adam had left. A Danish girl, Freya, arrived in the evening along with her hippy friend Wally. Tonight was the first night in two months of travelling, where I hadn't been travelling overnight or sick, and not had a beer! That's pretty impressive!

Friday 2nd May
I actually managed to drag myself out of bed at 8am to go and claim my free breakfast up on the roof. I met up with Maz and Hayley and as it was a sunny day we decided to do the walk from Coogee Beach to Bondi Beach. It was a really nice walk that ended up taking us 3 hours to do as we were constantly faffing around. We walked along 5 beaches, stopping at one (i'm not sure which) for a swim in the salt water pool which was bloody freezing! We stopped for a meal at a bar overlooking Bondi before getting the bus back to the hostel as it suddenly got really cold. I spent my last night in Sydney playing drinking games on the roof with Lou, Wally, his girlfriend, Hayley, George, Jonny, Casey, Freya and Phil, who was completely hammered again. We played a really simple drinking game which I won't go into details with due to the ridiculous amount of the word f**k that is needed to describe it! Phil had everyone laughing all night as he just couldn't get it. He kept saying "This game's f**king stupid. It doesn't make any sense". By the end of the night we were all drinking every time someone messed up!


Sorry, that one was crap. It is the least amount of effort that I have put in to any of my blogs so far!
Anyway, friends, family and fans, i'm glad that you have enjoyed the blogs. It has been fun doing them, but it has become a bit of a chore to be honest, as has writing my diary. You can still email me at mattislost@hotmail.co.uk if you want.
See you all in September.

Mattislost signing out.
xxx

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