Blogs from Bondi Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 42

The Bridge Climb Sydney’s Harbor Bridge is the equivalent to our Golden Gate Bridge in terms of fame and its symbolic value to the country. It is the world’s largest (but not longest) steel arch bridge built throughout the 1920s and opening in March of 1932. And of course keeping with the theme of all things dangerous and Australian, the city of Sydney allows people to climb the Harbor Bridge, which incidentally is held together by about six million little rivets that seem to have a propensity for falling into the Harbor. To be clear, they don’t simply allow people to walk across the bridge on a pedestrian sidewalk. But they actually let people hike up the steel girders that form the arch of the bridge, cross over the bridge at the top and walk down ... read more

Hello! Arrived in Sydney on the 17th at around 7.30ish after 28 hours of travelling!! As soon as we arrived we dumped our stuff at the hostel where the other 7 or so were staying and headed straight out to the bar were everyone was! We were greeted at the bar which overlooks bondi beach im hasent to add, by one of nicks mates who had a bottle of bubbly on ice for us! The weather is pretty bad out here at the moment and has been raining today. However we still managed to get down to the beach for a swim in true brit fashion! I havnt seen much of the town so far so i havnt really got loads to report but i can tell its gonna be alot of fun!! I will add ... read more

Whilst in Sydney some of our friends from home came out to visit us. Mark's friends Aussie and Neil joined him and Rach came out to see Lorna. Although some sightseeing was done, the main objective of their visit seemed to be to party and much alcohol was consumed by all. We did manage to take them to Bondi Beach and Manly although the weather wasn't as hot and sunny as it should have been. At one point Rach and Lorna were sat on Manly beach in jumpers! Mark and the boys also made it to Canberra for a few days where they soaked up some culture as well as some beers. On the 26th January Australia Day was celebrated to the full. After drinking lots of Tooheys lager we all got a free Australian Flag ... read more

The guesthouse in Phuket wasn't the best. The room was massive though and full of little guests! I was exploring around the door and Hannah said "Get out, just get out!!" so I legged it and went back to see why as she was still speechless and there was a massive spider on the door! It was about the size of my hand and so big I couldn’t fit it into the glass to put it outside!! So we had to call the Thai man who found it very funny, “Oh spider” until he saw the size of it and had to eventually kill it to get it outside! This made me sad but it think it might have been one that bit you so hey ho! Had an awful nights sleep as me and Hannah ... read more

Back and Baking Happy 2006! We just got back from our fabulous South Australia trip this afternoon. We had a crazy, adventurous and fun time blazing trails all over the southern bit of Australia. My plan is to post three post-event blogs over the course of this week - - one for each location we visited. However, I have a personal rule of not typing, or being near anything that emits even the slightest bit of heat, when the temperature is over 100. And since it was 112 today here in Sydney, and hit 117 yesterday back in Adelaide, AND as I sit here at 9pm typing on my furnace/laptop it is 104, I’m well beyond my tolerance. Just to be clear (based on personal experience) that is hot enough to make your flip-flops begin to ... read more