Showing posts with label Sydney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sydney. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 April 2008

10th April 2008

  • Went to the Olympic Park, listening to russell brand podcasts.
  • Hired bikes and cycled around in the awesome heat
  • Went back and had a nice pub dinner, and met up with crazy girl (Lindsey)
  • Chilled a bit and had some more food, then caught the late over night greyhound to Byron Bay!

Wednesday, 9 April 2008

9th April 2008

  • Blue Mountains eco tour
  • Crazy Girl started chatting to us, we couldn't find any bars open so had vast quantities of sugar instead.
  • Stayed up til 3am. Whoops

Tuesday, 8 April 2008

8th April 2008

  • Sorted out our greyhound ticket for the entire east coast
  • Went across to manly, did various walks, got lost, a bit
  • Got back for our night time Bridge climb, AWESOME!
  • Had an amazing Emu Pizza at the Australia Pub

Monday, 7 April 2008

7th April 2008

  • Sorted out our Fraser Island and Whitsunday Trips via a lovely lady in Sta Travel
  • Walked on through to the Botanical Gardens and saw some crazy large bats and spiders
  • Got a cool Opera house tour
  • Got Food?

Sunday, 6 April 2008

6th April 2008

  • Maritime Museum, lots of stuff, cool ships.
  • Had Italien across town, avoid gang in park
  • Went to the scubar, played some pool.
  • Was odd 90s football matches on the tele
  • Some apparently "world famous singer" was there.. hmm

Saturday, 5 April 2008

5th April 2008

  • Died a small death
  • Had to change rooms due to hostel tom-foolery.
  • Had some rehydration things, and threw up instantly.
  • Slept some.
  • Went to The Rocks
  • Had a chicken steak sarnie
  • Went to the rocks market place
  • Checked out the Opera house from across the harbour.
  • Walked across the entire sydney harbour bridge.
  • Took the ferry back and saw the sunset, awesome.

Friday, 4 April 2008

4th April 2008

  • Woke up at 4.30am
  • Our Flight was cancelled. So we got thrown on an earlier one.
  • Randomly fell onto a train to Central Station
  • Threw our bags into a locker at Central YHA
  • Went to Darling Harbour and got some touristic leaflets
  • Got coffee for our souls
  • Explore a bit then had Steak and Guiness pie in an Irish Pub
  • Pondered what we should do and decided on a few ideas
  • Checked into our hostel, extremely nice.
  • Went off to Kings Cross where all the travel agents are
  • Through Spanish Harlem.
  • Incident with "Wicked Travel" and Howie try to scam us
  • Researched, gave up, went to trust STA travel
  • Had a pot noodle for dinner
  • Went to the YHA bar, which was pretty bad, so went to the irish pub again and had a few while watcing a live band
  • Went to Darling harbour, wasn't allowed in lots of places because of jandals
  • Found a rock bar, cool music and beer
  • Went to subway, and chatted with some girls for a while before heading to bed