2nd day in Sydney

Trip Start Jan 03, 2008
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Trip End Mar 15, 2008


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Monday, January 7, 2008

Being that food is so expensive me and Max made good use of our free continential breakfast at the hostel.  I ate 6 peices of toast and would have ate more if I wasn't lactose intolerant and able to eat cereal.  Soon after we went on the internet and searched for cars in the Sydney area and found one in a suburb called Lakemba which is probably about 50 km southwest of where we were.  We hoped on a train and headed to the used car lot.  Probably took us an hour and half after the walk to the station.  There were 3 cars we were paying attention to, but in the time we were there a guy came and bought a small white car that we were considering.  We finally decided on a 1989, green Ford Fairline with 222,000 km on it.  It has purple seats and tons of electonic extras like power windows, gas gauge, and others.  It's quite ugly, but it'll have to do.  We spent some time looking at cars at the Kings Cross car park where backpackers sell to backpackers, but everything there was over $3000 each Jolly Swagman Hostel
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 .  So I think we might have found a deal.  We decided to leave the car at the dealership so that we could just pick it up when we leave Sydney on the 8th. 

We made it back to Kings Cross and walked around the Harbour at night.  There were street enterainers (and street hookers) all around.  We ate at a cool little place called the pontoon right on the harbour.  $7 for a braut and some fries.  There is no sales tax in Australia, if it says $7 its going to be $7.  There are also no pennies in Australian currency.  Everything is rounded to the nearest 5 cents.  While walking around we walked into some possoms that seemed violent.  There was also a number of huge bats that were flying over the city.  We went to a few bars but went to bed rather early.  It was 85 degrees in our hostel room when we went to bed. 
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