Blogs from CBD, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 6

1. Sydney Harbor This should actually be the first stop on any kind of Australian itinerary. Any visit to the harbor can take in many of Sydney's preeminent points of interest just like the Sydney Opera House plus Sydney Harbor Bridge. Take a Sundown Dining trip on the harbour in order to appreciate the city from the sea. 2. The Sydney Opera House Investigate this famous construction from each and every possible angle! Have a tour to get a greater insight into the actual day-to-day workings of the Opera House after which you can experience a performance (it's not all Opera you realize!). 3. Sydney Harbor Bridge This amazing bridge towered over Sydney Harbor long before the Opera House was even a shimmer in the architects eye. You can take a look at the bridge on ... read more

Boarding my plane to Sydney I'm immediately greeted with a warm welcome by the team of all male air stewards, all over 50, all a little bit camp with a wink wink here and nudge nudge there, you could have made a comedy show out of them. "More wine madam?" they ask, almost encouraging you to get drunk as when you reply yes they give you not one bottle but two. The girl in the seat next to me is from Sydney and is really chatty. We hit it off immediately and spend 5 hours chatting, laughing & drinking wine before finally dropping off to sleep for just 2 hours before our flight lands. I proceed through to passport control, being shown what queue to stand in by a woman that calls me "Darl" which makes ... read more

We woke up by the door knock from the cleaners. It was a sunny day and the streets were packed full of people. It was 11:02am. The cleaners wanted to clean our room, but we said "No". :) We were still sleeping... -.- We got changed and headed off to have a look around Sydney. We went to the harbour where the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge was. We went for a walk around the Opera House. The Opera House was like a creamy white colour and the steps to get to the Opera House was browny. We weren't allowed inside the house, because we needed to buy a ticket for the tour. The Opera House was surrounded by water. The Opera House has several rooms to hold concerts. We stayed there for about 1hour. ... read more

Australia – Sydney – The Opera House, The Harbour Bridge, The Blue Mountains and all topped off with a little bit of wine tasting and not forgetting a random catch up with a friend from Norwich! After a fantastic time on the great Ocean Road it was time to embark on my first experience with the Greyhound Bus service. I guess it’s fair to say I’ve been spoilt with some brilliant buses in Asia where you could fully recline the seat and there would only be three seats across the bus, so when I got shoe horned into my small seat on the Greyhound bus I knew it was going to be an uncomfortable twelve hours. Thank fully it passed without any major drama’s and I arrived in Sydney a little tied through lack of sleep ... read more

Saturday 15th of February I was invited for lunch to Felipe Kovacic’s house in Chatswood. He’s a retired navy officer who I met briefly in the Chilean Naval School. He’s been living in Sydney for some time now, with his French wife Isa and their 11 month son, Bruno. Turns out, both our fathers were classmates at the Mackay British School in Chile, small world again. Besides me, they invited an Armenian – Iranian couple and a French couple. It was a very pleasant afternoon and after the other guests left, I stayed several more ours chatting with Isa and Felipe; “lunch” ended up at about 8 pm. After that I went back to the house I was staying in Marrickville (the retirement house now turned into a flat) and when I got there, the Valentine’s ... read more