Blogs from The Rocks, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Final leg of the Oz. trip Following the Murray River from Echuca we went to Tallangatta and camped at their showground next to the lake which replaced the submerged original Tallangatta in the 1950’s. The showground was not a campground as such but is available when not in use. It was another small town with excellent outdoor facilities. The showground had a cricket oval (decided not to park on that), a Ménage where a chap turned up with two horses and rode western style (Liz said so) and was complete with a decent toilet block and showers. Not the horseman the showground. We had to share all this with 4 other fellow travellers all for the princely sum of 10 Aussie dollars, not bad value. From Tallangatta we took the Alpine road to Bright, overMountBeautyand stayed ... read more

Hi Guys! We spent 5 days with Anton's cousin, Tracy, in Coogee, which is just down from Bondi. We saw Andrew, Tracy's partner, for a few hours on the Saturday as he was flying out to work on the oil rigs for 6 weeks that evening. On Sunday, Tracy got called into work (she's an air hostess for Qantas) so Anton and I went to explore Coogee. As we were walking along the main street, a girl was giving away free greek yoghurts; so we accepted the offer and ate the delicious yoghurt as we were walking along! On the way back to the apartment, the girl was still giving away the yoghurts and told us to take as many as we liked - result! I picked up 2 and Anton picked up 6!!! At $2 ... read more

The plan for this morning was to find the best way to walk to the departure for the cruise ship on Hickson Rd and also to have an explore so we had a great wander through the alleyways and in and out of all the little nooks and shops. Breakfast was at the Gidday cafe $10 big brekky, a beer at Lowenbrau and then a not so short walk the long way to wharf 5 and the P&OPrincess Jewel, via the Irish Shop On George St. Cruise departure is via a temporary terminal, so a huge tent with plenty of staff directing you along each point. First stop is to hand over your luggage which is then delivered to your cabin. 2ndstop is to book in and get your on board credit card,get your picture ... read more

We went to check out the Rocks Night Markets again tonight as Will and Andy hadn’t seen it and Jo was happy to return to the stalls to do some more shopping! We headed down around 7pm and took a walk through the stalls before catching up with Andy and Jess at the bar in the Rocks square where they had a live band as well. We were kept entertained by an enthusiastic (drunk) host who slurred her way through the introductions of the band and a selection of other entertainers from some street dancers to a magician and a belly dancer! From here we walked around the remaining stalls before heading to the Lowenbrau beer house in The Rocks where Will and Andy took on the challenge of a Stein and the biggest meat ... read more