Blogs from Opera House, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

We were there when the Opera House was opened in 1973 and had walked around it, passed it on a ferry or two to Manly, or Watsons's bay, or Taronga Zoo or even on the Queen Mary (as seen in extra picture), but had never been inside. This is a bit of an insight as what is inside. I am sure we could have covered a lot more space, but a one hour tour hardly does the place justice.... read more

Took a train to Circular Quay and wandered around the Opera House and Royal Botanic Gardens. Then a tasty lunch in Woolloomooloo where the Australian Navy are stationed.... read more

Thursday 13th and Friday14th March, 2014. Return to Sydney and Sydney Opera House Show After breakfast we said our goodbyes to Geoff, Elizabeth and Bella. Then we set off in the car back towards Hobart. We arrived in good time for our flight and returned the car which passed inspection without any problems. This good luck was not to last however! When we entered the terminal we sorted ourselves out and went air-side after clearing security. Once on the other side it became clear that our flight was delayed. As a gesture of good will each passenger was given $8 voucher to spend in the cafe so we had two snacks and a beer.. As we ate our lunch the plane arrived and we got on it only some 45 minutes late. Once at the other ... read more

Arrived in Sydney yesterday on the train from Woy Woy. We checked into the hostel and left our stuff so that we could explore the city. We went to see the opera house and the harbour bridge and it was amazing! we sat and had a late lunch at this lovely cafe on the waters edge over looking both the bridge and the opera house. Then we continued walking round to the opera house to get a close up and have a peak inside the gift shop and foyer and to take more pictures. Then we had a beer at the bar on the edge of the opera house with the sunset almost behind the bridge. We walked back to the hostel watched movies and went to bed. Woke up this morning and had a hungry ... read more

Hey everybody so we are in our last few hours in Sydney and defiantly going to miss Australia...after spending an hour talking to Joanna we have finally booked our hostel for Thailand which was running a tad late but my head has been in some funny places recently so am organised-sort of for at least 2 days into Bangkok. So to fill you all in.... after we left Brisbane we headed to Surfers Paradise which we had been told is pretty similar to Benidorm...so we were ready and waiting for some wonderful sights ha! Our hostel was called backpackers in paradise and it was very paradise like should have been renamed Backpackers in Benidorm as we agreed it was quite similar! We met a very mad irish man called Willy who followed us around for a ... read more