Back in Sydney...love it!
Trip Start
Sep 18, 2006
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Trip End
Ongoing
Sydney,
Australia
Thursday, April 26, 2007
As soon as i stepped off the bus from Melbourne and saw the streets i knew so well, it felt like i was home. My first 4 days back in sydney were spent with 3 swedes id met in Cairns, as it was their last few days before heading home. We had a great time, one day we even ventured over the harbour (something, id somehow not done before!) and found ourselves in Luna Park, a fun fair. As we got on so well it was disappointing to see them leave, but im glad i made the effort to catch them before they left.
Softening the blow, i moved hostels the next day to meet up with Natasha and Greg. This hostel, Base Backpackers, became my home for the last 2 and a bit weeks of my stay in australia, and what a 2 and a bit weeks!
Cowboy Night - Yeeha!
! The fun started that day (and literally never stopped) with a picnic in Hyde Park and a Wild West themed night, where we all got dressed up as cowboys. I even got roped into promotion work, which involved walking through sydney in costume, rounding up other party people. My reward, a night of free alcohol...nice! After a couple of days of persuasion, we were joined at Base by Sarah, who'd we'd met in Melbourne. On Monday 16th, we hired a car and took a road trip to the capital city of Canberra. Already being told it was dull, we still wanted to go to see it and to say we visited to capital (!). And of course the 3 of us injected our own fun into the proceedings and it turned out we had a good day. We visited the parliment buildings, and the war museum before making our way back to sydney. On our return, we picked up Greg and drove to Marubara to get Tasha's camer back from a friend. En route we picked up a box of goon as it was Greg's last night...we ended up having a fab night in Side bar (one of my regular haunts). A down side to sydney, lack of street parking, and returning to our car the next morning, some bugger had given us a fine!! As i stayed in Base a while, i accumulated a great bunch of friends, in fact the people ive met here are well amongt the people ive got on the most with. Our gang consisted of Ben, Matty, Natasha, Sarah, Helen, the 'delightful' Emma, and unbelievably, Pete Dixon...one of my old school chums who just happened to be in sydney (ive said its a small world!)!
I thought i'd won the crab racing...sadly not!
! We've had the best time, sometimes not doing anything, just slobbing in bed all day and talking crap, but there have been many cracking nights out (usually the reason for the lazy days); The pjarma party (as i'd left mine at home, i borrowed a pair of bottoms from a girl in my dorm, with the slogan "lollypop lover" across the arse...i am but dont like advertising the fact!), my last night out in Kings Cross, our night in Coogee, all building up to the mother of all nights out - id even go as far as to say my best night in sydney, maybe australia. It was Natasha's birthday, and my last night in the country and way to go out with a bang. We dressed up as golfers, very professional we looked too. Incidentally ive been very impressed with the ingenuity of backpackers to create outfits from a limited wardrobe! We warmed up in Scary Canary and moved it onto Scu Bar (one of my favs) where we had VIP entry. We got some cracking looks, 8 golfers dancing in the middle of a bar. At one point a crab race took place and when speaking to the girl with the clipboard i was sure id done enough to seal us the winning crab, and the free bar tab that went with it. In fact i was convinced! Tasha was on stage as it was her birthday rallying the crowd and then i heard "number 18, Mr. T" "thats mine, thats mine!!!" Drink flew everywhere as I made my way to the stage jumping around like a mad man. There i was presented a t-shirt! id come 3rd, but hadnt realised, so i was there posing with my t-shirt like a clown! At least my possy of golfers loved it
No qualifications? why not, it needs a trim
. A round of 500 miles, cotton-eyed joe, and Mr Brightside later, i was in tatters and had lost my voice. It was the perfect end to my australian adventure...my buddies threatened to sit on me so id miss my flight, but instead they signed my crab winning t-shirt and off i left the next morning! Sad to be leaving more friends behind but its time to move on, sydney however fun, was expensive. Plus ill see them all again for sure.
My 5 months down under have been without doubt some of the best times in my life. Ive loved practiacally every minute and rarely stopped laughing...roll on Fiji!
