New years eve in Sydney

Trip Start Dec 11, 2008
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Trip End Jan 06, 2009


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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Weather was nice, blue skies and 30C, we had plans were to go to Manly beach, but we had read on the web that it can on New years evenings day might be very tricky to get around with public transportation. So we skipped our plans to go to Manly, we did not want to take the risk that we ruin the whole evening because we are stuck on the wrong place. Instead we took our towels and went our on the grass outside our apartment in order to read a bit and catch some sun.
We had NYE dinner booked to 8pm, so we headed out for the ferry departing Abbotsford at around 5pm. Now the NYE struggle started, first ferry was full, second ferry was cancelled, we got scared so we tried to take the bus, but we missed it by 5mins. Taxi was impossible to get, so there was no other choise but to go with the last ferry. Luckily we managed to get onboard that one. We talked to some locals about where to watch the fire works, and how to get home. We were warned that it is going to be a long night.
When we arrived at Circuilar Quay around 6pm, where most of the people want to be in the evening, there was a lot of people sitting guarding their spots. The whole are was surrounded by a metal fence, outside there was a lot of people queing to get in, while we were trying to get out of there. We had booked a wonderful 3 course dinner at Steersons steak house in Darling Harbour, where we had calamari, prawns as starters, main course beef and desert icecream, panna cotta.
At 9pm there was the childrens firework at Darling harbour area, which was also quite magnicifient.
Due to the heave crowd of people that we saw was moving towards Circular Quey we changed our plans a bit, the plan was to watch the fireworks from a distance and then head straight towards the taxis. Since the large blocks of the city are blocked from traffic, we ended up at the Obervatory Hill. Quite a party going on there, a lot of beers and a lot of happy people. We were now standing in the back row of the crowd, with quite a good view over the bridge and we enjoyed the fireworks. The fireworks is something really amazing, a lifetime experience. As soon as the firework stopped we headed for the road were taxis could be found, luckily for us we got a taxi straight away. Time to go how and have a good nights sleep.
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