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Published: February 16th 2011
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We arrived in Sydney at 17:30 - only a three and a hald hour journey from Canberra so not too bad at all! We were dropped at Central station and then had to get the train to Penant Hills. Was quite impressed by the trains, they are double decker and air conditioned!! Robyn met us at the station and drove us back to her house. She has two children, Lucy 21 and Jack who I think was about 18 or 19 and then her husband Jack. They had a lovely big house in a really nice area and to top it all off they had a swimming pool! Han and I were very lucky that both of these families had been so kind as to have us stay with them!
Jack had cooked up a Thai Green curry which was lovely and then we had the nicest peaches that I have ever had in my life and I'm sure Han would agree with me. Robyn had collected a leaflet from the station about getting a week travel pass which covered the train, buses and the ferry! It was a really good deal, for $48 you got a weeks travel anywhere
in Sydney - seemed almost too good to be true as it had just cost Han and I $5 for one train journey!
We got up the following morning and headed out early. Jack had given us some suggestions so we wasted no time in getting on our way. Firstly we stop off at Milsons Point which is just by the Harbour Bridge. We walked across the Harbour Bridge and the view was amazing! I was really taken aback by it all and really excited to be in Sydney! We got to the Rocks which is meant to be the first place where the European Settlers arrived or something... don't quote me on that though. We then took a walk round to Circular Quay and jumped on the ferry to Manly Beach one of the two iconic beaches in Sydney. It was a really hot day and expected to get hotter in the next couple of days so we were grateful for the breeze on the ferry! Manly was a really big long beach, lots of people playing volleyball and surfing. They were some really nice apartements over looking the beach that maybe one day I'll live in!
From Manly we then got the ferry back over to circular quay and jumped on the train to Bondi junction so I could go and see Emily - the girl who did all my tattoos back at home - as she moved here a couple of years ago! We then headed back home as we were going to a noodle that night with Robyn and co, so needed to get a move on! We were really pleased we got our travel tickets as we had already used about half of the cost in that one day! Dinner at the noodle market was really nice, it was in a park in North Sydney and there were lots or families all with children and their dogs. I had a really nice tandoori chicken wrap! We headed to the pub and had one for the road then headed back home. Han and I went to meet Tom at the pub but unfortunately Hannah had forgotten her ID so we couldn't get in - they are very strict on it out here!
Woke up to very hot weather! It was only about 9 in the morning and I would say it was already
in the mid thirties. Today, we had been told, was set to reach forty! Jack and Robyn took us on a tour of the beaches in North Sydney. We went to about three different beaches, including Palm Beach where they film Home & Away. It reached 41 degrees that day so we were really glad we were in an air conditioned car other wise I don't think I could have coped. I was really surprised to see that people were actually sunbathing on the beach! I couldn't even walk on the sand let alone sunbathe! We went for a lunch in a really nice pub which over looked a lovely beach that dogs were allowed on so we saw lots of dogs swimming around in the sea. Had an absoloutley huge lunch and was really tired after! We kept driving but as usual Han & I were dropping off, it was impossible to stay awake in that heat, it really does take it out of you! We had plans to go out with Lucy and her friends to the city this night but we didn't end up going as the heat was too much. So Lucy, Hannah and I got
a take away and say around drinking wine and swimming to try and keep cool! Turns out it had been the hottest day in Sydney since 1927!!
The following day Han and I caught a lift to the shopping centre with Lucy where she works and strolled around the shops, the weather wasn't that great either so we decided that shopping was the only option! By this point we had seen everything that was in the shops and actually didn't buy anything! We went home around two o'clock then got all our stuff together ready to move on to the Blue Parrot Hostel in Kings Cross. We left the Gilchrist family at about four o'clock and made arrangements to meet Lucy at some point in the week to go out!
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