Blogs from Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 9

03 05 2010 Today was an in transit day. We essentially kicked our heels around Sydney whilst waiting for time to elapse to go to the airport and fly to Thailand. The Crowne Plaza nice hotel and very comfortable. A warm day in Sydney and took a few pictures of the Government building and the Queen Victoria building. The chauffeur turned up and took us to the airport and into the luxury of Emirates business class. We had a great view of the jet as they got it ready for our flight. All went well and it was a 9 hour flight which went without incident. Great food and top service. A new day tomorrow. Got here and got a public taxi to the hotel. Taxi driver seemed happy the roads were quiet at this time ... read more

I could have slept for ages this morning, if the light hadn’t off woken me up. F and I had a constant battle about leaving the curtains open or shut. I get woken by the smallest amount of natural light, even if I wear an eye mask the sun finds away slipping in and waking me up, therefore like the curtains closed. F on the other hand likes to wake up and see what is going on outside. Well that is great, but seeing as I always get up first and am ready long before the kids wake up, that curtain should stay closed! But what sort of lesson would I have been teaching him if I said no, so we made a compromise; alternating every day between open and closed. As it turned out they ... read more

Servus, Am Samstag waren wir mit unseren französischen Mitbewohnern und den PH Mädels in der Stadt. Sind nach langem laufen in einer Bar am Darling Harbour gelandet, in der das Bier 5€ kostet und die Karte aufgeweicht vom Alkohol war. Aber dafür war das Unterhaltungsprogramm sehr gut. Live Band die Gitarre mit Elektro-Musik gemischt hat. Nach dem langen Nukeln am Bier ging es weiter am Hafen entlang. Wirklich beeindruckende Skyline. Am Sonntag gabs das Chinese New Year Festival. Mit großer Parade und abschließendem Feuerwerk, auf das wir fast 2h gewartet haben. Australier halt, no worries gelle :D Aber dennoch wirklich sehr schön. ... read more

1 full day in Bangkok and two nights staying at the New Siam riverside -about 50yards from New Siam 2.It was actually on the riverside, at least the restaurant bar and swimming pool was. Our room on 6th floor overlooked the city. Bangkok was even busier than I remembered and the taxi driver told us there are 12million people in the City. We ate Pad Thai in the wild Orchid, shopped in the Koh Saon Road, walked from our hostel to visit the Royal barges,went down the river to a beautiful shopping mall selling the most gorgeous Thai silk clothes and cloth of every colour-Once again I wished I had more luggage space!! We ahd a quiet time in Bangkok and did not manage to visit the Blues Bar- We will leave that for the ... read more

We awoke early in Hong Kong and headed to the airport to catch our flight to Sydney. We opted to take the Hong Kong bus since it was a third of the price of the hotel shuttle. We walked the ten minutes to Nathan Road in Kowloon where we got the express bus to the airport. Check in was fast and we waited in the terminal to board the plane. Elyse watched five movies while I only watched three on the nine hour flight. I spent a few hours perfecting my Tetris skills on the in flight entertainment system. We landed and walked thru customs in what I thought was record time, less than 30 minutes. There was no cool visa that we received just a little stamp. Before coming to Australia we had to go ... read more