From Sydney
Trip Start
Jul 29, 2005
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Trip End
Aug 16, 2005
Sydney,
Australia
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Sydney is perhaps the most beautiful city in the world, or at least tied with San Francisco. The harbour setting with its bridge, opera house and city center on a clear "winter" day (of 70 degrees) is breathtaking. Another one of those places that makes you seriously consider why we live where we do. Since obviously I'm writing this after the fact, we'll just do a quick run-through of what we did in our short time in Sydney.
Saturday, August 13:
We flew in around 5pm and go to our hotel shortly after. We stayed in the Darlinghurst neighborhood and our hotel was a modern, boutique hotel with bright colors, Ikea-like furniture, and amazing shampoo and chocolates. We didn't do too much tonight except get some Thai food and beers across the street.
Sunday, August 14:
Today was "Let's wander around Sydney and see what we find" day. And that's exactly what we did. We walked around our neighborhood, watched 50,000 runners go by in the City to Surf road race, ate breakfast along a pier, strolled through the botanical gardens, saw the opera house and harbour bridge, went to a market in the historic Rocks district, ate some lunch and then did some shopping. After dinner we caught a movie at an independent/foreign film theater (it was a French film, so I won't even bother trying to explain it since I'm not quite sure myself).
Monday, August 15:
Last day of our trip. What better way to spend it then on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge? We spent over three hours in the morning getting suited up, instructed, and then climbing the bridge. Actually climbing to the summit wasn't too bad, just like walking up stairs against strong winds wanting to push you down the stairs (or over the bridge). The only real challenge was climbing the ladders up to the arch. One ladder put you between two lanes of traffic, which had to be an interesting site for the drivers. But alas we submitted, enjoyed the view, and then climbed back down to enjoy the rest of the day shopping and eating.
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