1st full day in Oz and woke up with a fucking cracker of a hangover!
Had a mean brekkie in Chinatown!
I was told about a land where people drink "Goon" and have free bar tabs from the "Jolly Swagman" backpackers........located in Kings Cross - AKA "The Cross". This was to be my spiritual home for the next 2 nights! :o)
For the rest of the day I bimbled around Sydney. Bloody lovely city, rather big, but not a patch on London! Appreciated the Opera House but looked a bit skanky and could have done with a clean! Would have been great to see a show there and I would have been more impressed looking at it at night I reckon.
Harbour Bridge was cool but at the end of the day it's a fucking bridge! It's about as impressive as the Severn Bridge but you get to go into God's country (Wales!) on that one!
I really liked the Botanical Gardens and spent a while chilling, taking it all in around there.
A quick point to make is that Sydney girls are FIT! Properly power dressed and a far cry from how London female workers look! Another point is they send all the dodgy Aussie girls to London as well!
Jumped on a Bus to Bondi and met a 40yr old something fella called Jim doing the same thing. He was a fucking huge Rangers supporter (I gathered that fact by the way he didn't stop banging on about them and number of tatooes he had!) and much footie banter was had!
Bondi is one of the places you have to go to (just to say you've been there!). Really nice place, but again at the end of the day is a beach with crap waves! (Think of a poor Gower Penninsular in Wales!).
A hell of a lot of fitties around tho - which was nice :o)
Despit my above rant I really liked the place and very chilled..........but maybe this was due to the fact that Jim and I got mullered all day drinking beer and Whisky! He's a top lad and will meet up with the big fella again in Surfer's Paradise
Got back to the Jolly Swaggers and was told in no uncertain terms to get my ass at the drinking table for "Ring of Fire" by my new found friends Dan, Matt and Patrick.......but I didn't know I'd be spending the next week with these mentalists!
We went to World Bar and had a free bar tab and a shag ticket..........sadly I didn't find my corresponding number, which may have been due to the fact I was a dribbling mess!
A huge dance-off occurred all night with Partick (Canadian dude) just losing out to a fellow countrywomen of his that looked as though she nailed a handful of E's! (I think I was told that Matt had a bit of a spooning session with her - get in there fella!)
This is the first in my many digressions.......
GOON - this was introduced to me as wine..........fine.........this was then explained that it was cheap wine.........still fine (I'm no conisuer!).........this is the foulest tasting alcohol to pass my lips in a long time!
However.........I was then told the price - $8 for a 4 Litre box.....YES - A 4 LITRE BOX!
That's like fucking 75p for a bottle of wine - GET IN!
Once you get over the initial taste it's good - very good........and I came to love this wine (as it gets you shitfaced easily and cheaply!) and am still drinking it now in London!
My only RANT (of which there will be many in this Australia blog, and I must add the RANT BOOK is copyrighted by Patrick!) is that on many boxes of Goon it has Fish, Chips, and Peas..........as if its some sort of fucking compliment to it! Hilarious!
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