Oct 11, 2005 - Sydney!!!

So I have arrived in the land downunder!!! And I am totally messed up! I got off the horrible plane ride at around 5:15am Sydney time this morning. Totally tierd, sick and not even knowing where I was going to sleep tonight!! There was a big backpackers board at the airport though so that totally helped. I picked a hostel in the area of Sydney called Kings Cross. Its sort of a mix of everyone, although one part is the Red Light District of Sydney, so I will have to be a little careful. I heard the hostel I am staying at is really good...

Oct 6, 2005 - Arrival into Sydney

The 23 hour trip was completed with a devil child sat two rows in front of us. Said child was heavily sedated by cabin crew to give everyone some much-needed peace and quiet. Managed to help a woman on the plane who was suffering with the trots!! Imodium came to the rescue. Found Helen's relatives in the airport and immediately went to the bottle shop (beer off to the Brits) for beers, had our first Aussie BBQ of the trip. We slept nearly the entire 3 days at Teena and Andy's recovering from jetlag - managed to get peepers open for a couple...

Oct 2, 2005 - SYDNEY, October

SYDNEY - OCTOBER 2005 By the time October arrived, we had found a flat that we liked in Milsons Point. It was about a 10 minute walk from where we were already staying and we realised how lucky we were to live in such a central place with beautiful harbour views nearby and numerous beaches just a bus ride away (not to mention the short 1 train stop journey to work over the bridge!). Early on the agenda in October was the first of many Sydney festivals; Parklife; featuring DJ's such as Sandy Rivera, Nick Warren, Hybrid, Freestylers, Rennie...

Sep 29, 2005 - Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb

Today has been one of the windiest days I have ever experienced! It also just so happened to be the very day that we were booked to climb the harbour bridge! The shocking state of my hair indicates just quite how windy it was!!! The whole experience lasted for around 3 and a half hours and was absolutely incredible. Groups of 12 depart the Harbour Climb building at 10 minute intervals and climb around 1200 steps to reach the top, dressed in the type of attire I imagine an astronaut would wear! The views we were rewarded with on reaching the...

Sep 26, 2005 - The Bondi weekender bender

I flew down to Sydney on a friday avo and noticed the temperature difference straight away this was a big change down to 17 from the usual 25 i could'nt stop shaking and started to panic about returning back to Britain in april after leaving the ozzy summer of about 35 I pictured a scene from Cool Runnings when they all stand in the airport door freezing their nads off.I got the connection over to Bondi Beach to the YHA hostel where Lee was staying. Driving through Bondi I was a tad surprised at the place. It was well "lived in" and...

Sep 23, 2005 - Sydney!

Daar zit is dan! het is hier lekker warm. En we hebben al wat door syney heen gelopen. Het gaat goed met de groep waar ik in zit. Gewoon leuke dingen doen met elkaar maar toch nergens toe gedwongen zijn. ideaal. Hebben afgelopen dag lekker last van een jetlag gehad. 's middags om 16:00h lagenb we gewoon allemaal te ronken! Maar om 18:00h haddewn we toch maar zoiets van laten we maar gaan eten. Dus naar de supermarkt, eten gehaald, gekookt in het hostel en lekker gegeten. daarna ging de helft weer naar bed...Maar de diehards gingen nog ff...

Sep 22, 2005 - Sydney

Zo na een vlucht van 9 uur (vanuit Singapore)zijn we dus eindelijk geland. We zitten nu echt DownUnder!! Alles verliep goed, door de douane heen kregen we eindelijk ons Work Holiday Visum en onze tassen waren er ook al, dus we konden gaan, terwijl we nog even op de rest stonden te wachten kregen we nog even een bezoekje van zo'n drugshond... wel ff slikken als je s'middags nog mjet je handjes aan Eriks plantjes hebt gezeten, maar gelukkig waren we die knakworst te snel af. Eenmaal door de poortjes heen werden we netjes door iemand van AIFS...

Sep 10, 2005 - Sydney Marathon

Sydney (Sept 9-10) I've always wanted to run a marathon. Just the sheer challenge of it. Can I run 26.2 miles (42km) without stopping, crying or dying? Well with this question in mind me, Claire and 2 friends (Karina and Sean) decided to fly to Sydney. Lying in wait was the Sydney Marathon. The Sydney Marathon is a bugger of a run. Great sights and landmarks are part of the run, but since Sydney is a costal city, there are lots of hills. There was a small section from around 14-20km where the path is level, but for the rest of the run you...

Sep 3, 2005 - Sydney

Our trip to Australia is now at an end. It's hard to beleive that we have been here for 2 months, doesn't feel like it and in a funny way, it doesn't really feel like we have achieved much whilst being here. But I guess we have done a fair bit and covered alot of mileage. Anyway enough of that, here we are in Sydney and unfortunately it's time to say goodbye to our old faithful Tortoise. We have only been friends for 6 weeks but it feels like a lifetime, it's like our home, so it does feel strange to empty all of our possesions and tidy and...

Aug 15, 2005 - Australia - New South Wales - Sydney

How ya doin', mates? We are now in Sydney, which is the only big city we are going to visit in Australia and what a city!!! It's so nice to walk around and you can pretty much walk everywhere. Of course, we've visited the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge and we've seen them from all the possible angles. Of course, we had fish & chips at Circular Quay. We've walked along the cobbled streets of The Rocks (where the first European settlement took place) and wandered along its many botanical gardens and parks. We also spent nearly four hours...

Aug 15, 2005 - Back in Aus - After the Wedding Parties

After such an amazing time in Thailand, we came back to Aus to catch up with everyone who couldnt make it to the wedding. The Austi wedding reception was awesome - a really great night, catchin up with people we havent seen in ages. It was a lot more like a normal wedding reception - we spent all night running around trying to say hi and bye to everyone. Made us appreciate the way we had the wedding in Thailand and how much time we got to spend with everyone. Seems we have been out for breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner every day since we...

Aug 9, 2005 - Avec Dominique et Anthony a Sydney

Mardi c'etait donc mon anniversaire. La journee a commence apres une nuit a la belle etoile, magnifique bien que glaciale (de toute facon, depuis la nuit dans l'Andringitra, c'est difficile de me dire que je passe vraiment une mauvaise nuit), puis un petit-dejeuner pris en contemplant le lever de soleil sur Uluru, puis balade autour du rocher, puis avion jusqu'a Sydney ou je retrouve Dominique et Anthony (et c'etait particulierement agreable d'etre attendue a la sortie de l'avion)! Petite balade de decouverte de la ville (qui a l'air tres...