Blogs from Manly, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 16

Well it is now Sunday 21st Jan and our last day in Sydney - it is hot hot hot, although Manly Beach is closed because surf's up - but up too much - honestly these Aussies are such wimps! We arrived last Monday to find my friend Pippa and her youngest son Tom waiting at the airport to meet us - haven't seen her for 15 or so years so amazing she recognised me! She had arranged for us to use the house of a friend of hers - well what a house and what an area - we were so sad not to be staying in a hot, dusty caravan park! The next day we headed into Darling Harbour in the city to wildlife world with Pippa and her boys, Tom, Max and Joe. Kieran ... read more

Since Christmas we have been doing a lot of relaxing and chilling on the beach and watching the new 50 inch plasma TV. Johns aunt, Annemarie has kindly been letting us use her care which was great, unfortunately both John and I have had our licenses stolen so Cam was the only one able to drive. Lucky for us she could as we have been able to drive all over the place. Last week we drove over to Bondi beach!! Even though we have the northern beaches on our door step we thought it would be rude not to go there. The sun was shining so we packed our bags made some sandwiches and set off. To get there we had to drive over the Sydney harbour bridge which was pretty cool. We then had to ... read more

As a result of the night out on Tuesday, I bumped into two Scottish girls in the bar, who I made friends with. This has now doubled my previous best "friend total" which makes me happy. Came across to Manly yesterday morning, booked into hostel. Hostel wasn't lovely. Didnt help that I'd had to check out my chuffing hotel at 8am that morning with what can only be described as a hangover. Anyway, lounged on beach for a while (weather still a bit crap) and met my two new friends. We (I) was very excited to have people to play with, so on the grounds that the weather was still a bit crap, we went to a Bavarian Bierkellar place on the waterfront and did beer tasting. This started about 3pm and finished about 9, when ... read more

Hello, I am now in Sydney... yes they let me in!! woohoo!! so this will be my last blog about Asia... since I last emailed I left the Internet cafe and ended up going for a long wander along the beach and onto the road and round to the next beach. I also stopped at a travel and tour place and booked a tour to see a few of the islands around the place. I then wandered back to the area where we were staying and went to a restaurant and had some lunch. After lunch I made my way down to the beach and sat on the beach reading and people watching for a few hours. I then went for a wander along a different area behind the town before going tot he pub where ... read more

Dec 14th - Day 28 Headed back down to the Circular Quay again today on route to the ferry to Manly. It was a beautiful day and the ferry was full of youngsters on their way to the beach. So along with the crowds first stop was the beach itself. It was quite a long sweeping beach and by the time I got there, there wasn't a lot of free sand. Had a bit of a paddle, wasn't that warm, and a people watch. It's good to see that the bikini is as popular as ever, and for the ladies its speedos on tubby middle aged men. Not pleasant. After the beach started the Manly Scenic Walkway. My intention was to get halfway, have my picnic and come back. The walk was very pleasant, but it ... read more