Blogs from Manly, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 10

Last day of the trip. tear drop. Its over. It seems like only yesterday I was handing my shoes to my dad in exchange for flip flops at the airport... Here is a little taste of how the last 3 weeks has gone down. Arrived in Airlie Beach at 6 am off of the night bus to do an amazing 2 night sailing trip in the whitsunday islands and nothing was open yet so I found a desirable picnic table to sleep on until the shop was open at 830. I re discovered how much I hate shit hawks aka seagulls, probably the most loud obnoxious bird on the planet. When I got to the shop I discovered that the boat I was supposed to go on had broken down so i got upgraded to a ... read more

Hi All, Some people have been having difficulty accessing the blog since Stu listed them as private. They are now open as public so hopefully you can all view them OK. Lots of love, Stu & Lizzie.... read more

We vliegen maandag 24 maart om 17.25 uur vanuit Bangkok naar Sydney. We komen dinsdag de 25e maart in Sydney aan om 6.25 uur plaatselijke tijd. We verblijven op Manly Beach in : http://www.manlybungalow.com/facilities.asp Donderdag 27 maart halen we de auto op bij Alamo op het Sydney Kingsford Smith airport in Sydney. Deze dag vertrekken we naar de Blue Mountains ! Het backpacker bungalow complex was lachen, eenvoudig maar prima lokatie en een goed bed, ontbijtje bij de supermarkt wat wil je nog meer. Dezelfde dag zijn we naar OceanWorld gegaan op Manly Beach, Phie vond het cool en heeft de meest giftige slangen van Australie achter glas gezien (wel een beetje slecht van geslapen). 's avonds mocht hans kiezen: goede rode wijn bij Beaches Pizza, met een geweldige muur vol flessen (zie foto, gaan we ... read more

The weather was lovely today, perfect for walking. Ae Rhan and I walked to Circular Quay to meet Claudia before catching the ferry over to Manly. We were a little late because we both wanted to stop at Darling Harbour to buy sunglasses. We caught the 12pm ferry and planned to get the free bus to the end and do the walk backwards, but the bus didn't come and the lady in the information centre was very unhelpful. In the end, we decided to start the walk from where we were and get the bus back. It was about 1.30pm when we began the walk. At the beginning of the walk there were lots of spiders everywhere! The views along the way were beautiful and we took short breaks at the best lookout points. There are ... read more

So we made it down under, an 8 hour plane journey passed pretty quick by the both of us dozing off for 6 of it!! After feeling pretty dazed and confused we got off the train to a very sunny and warm Sydney. We travelled across to Manly on the ferry and set up camp in our hostel. We were thankful to even get on a hostel considering everywhere was booked up! When we googled, 'Sydney and February' it came up with the 'Madis Gras' which is one of the biggest festivals in Sydney where Gay and Lesbians parade about with wiggly bums and not much else on up and down the streets on Sydney, this resulted in nearly every hostel in Sydney being booked up. After feeling quite hung over we got out and about ... read more