Blogs from Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Next morning, we walked through the very convenient hole in the fence to the station and bought our all day tickets for $23 each. This would allow us to access trains, most buses and some of the ferries across the bay. Just one problem – they were working on the train tracks over the weekend so we had to catch a replacement bus instead, which was nowhere near as comfortable and I couldn’t get up and walk around if I needed to, when my back got stiff. By the time we arrived at Central Station in Sydney I could barely straighten up. We had stopped next to Albert Park so I did some stretches and walked a little to get it mobile again. We wanted to see Chinatown first so we caught another bus, fortunately only ... read more

Monday 3rd February, 2014. Wildlife Sydney, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW, Australia As the weather forecast was a bit iffy we decided to go into the city to Darling Harbour to visit the Wildlife Sydney Zoo located in Darling Harbour. This small zoo concentrates entirely on native Australian wildlife which is one of the many things that make Australia a unique environment on our planet. There are some species found here that are not found anywhere else on earth. After alighting from the bus we made our way to Darling Harbour where we queued for our tickets. While we waited D took some photos of a cute Koala Bear who was sitting in a tree next to the queue barriers. Thanks to Rach we got a two for one deal with her tokens from the Hays Book. ... read more

Nun war es also soweit. Nach mehr als 4140 gefahrenen Kilometern mussten wir am 18.1. unser geliebtes Wohnmobil in Sydney abgeben. Ich habe es fast nicht übers Herz gebracht. Das einzig Positive an diesem Tag war, dass wir nicht gleich zurückreisen mussten, sondern noch eine Woche in Sydney verbringen können. Quasi zum Ausklang haben wir uns ein Appartment mitten in der Stadt (China Town) gemietet, worin beide Familien Platz fanden. Das Gebäude heisst World Tower und ist auch gleich das grösste Gebäude Sydneys ohne Speer resp. Antenne. Diese Rechnungsweise zeigt dass auch hier der Grössenwahn um sich greift. Unsere Wohnung ist im 77. Stock (von ca. 85) und was für einen sensationellen Ausblick sie bietet, sieht man anhand der Bilder. Liste der grössten Gebäude Sydneys Ich persönlich empfinde Sydney als M... read more

Finally starting to get used to the time zone here so just chilled in the morning yesterday. We are a bit fed up of all the walking so decided upon more of a chilled day. There was a bit of cloud in the morning but it started to clear so we went to Darling harbour to sit in the sun. The sun was really hot so I had a two scoop ice cream in a cone it was massive! We were really hot walking back so decided to dip our legs in the pool at the hostel. Ashley went to a boxing class in the evening but I stayed at the hostel. We had been invited to this food thing by some Danish guys in his room in the dining room, so I headed that way ... read more

MONDAY 20.5.2013 Had a lovely leisurely drive up from Shell Harbour with Kaz and Reg, it was wonderful of them to drive us up to the White Bay Cruise Terminal in Sydney, boarded the Sea Princess by about 12.00 and had lunch whilst awaiting our departure at 4.00p.m. The boat was a bit late leaving heading out at about 4.40p.m., we thought it would be dark before we got outside the heads in Sydney but were very lucky to see everything as we cruised out under the Sydney Harbour Bridge and past the Opera House at about 5.30p.m. Absolutely SENSATIONAL!! views, we don't go much on Sydney as a city but it is very, very pretty. Many smaller boats, ferries etc on the harbour also people walking up the harbour bridge stopped to view the huge ... read more