Blogs from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 662

Well hello again, its 9.15pm Aus time. Today I have been mostly walking around the Olympic Park which is absolutely superb, if London's park looks half as good as this after the games then they would have done themselves proud. I didnt get to go round Stadium Australia/Telstra stadium as the Broncos and Bullgdogs were playing a rugby game. So I went off an did the $3.10 tour! For $3 you can go into the acquatic centre and have a look around instead of paying the $20 guided tour. the area it takes up is huge and the main road is 1.5km which goes from one end to the other, which I walked down. It wasnt very busy as I went during the day and it's not the school holidays here. All the facilities are still ... read more

The Clarks were nice enough to take me to the Blue mountains for 2 days; which are these beautiful small mountains with sandstone cliffs. We saw the three sisters (three sort of cylindrical erroded cliffs sticking up from the side of the mountain) and the Wall, which is this massive grand canyon-esque sandstone cliff area, except grown everywhere are gum trees. It's absolutely gorgeous, yet we had pretty much the whole place to ourselves. Narelle said that it gets crowded on weekends with people escaping to their country retreats, but still, it's devoid of 'touristy' infrastructure, which I loved. We went to a huge cave, and stayed at this place called "The Cave House" which is an old country retreat big inn with a large dining hall and reading rooms and the like. It was cold ... read more

Last day in Sydney Pack up, hang out, wait for bus. Easy going day. Not much to do when I have to leave for the airport by 1:30 this afternoon. The only thing I really had to get done before checking out this morning was to finish packing up the box I wanted to send home and walk over to the post office...8.2kg later! Amazingly that only cost me $74 to send...less than $10/kg and I must say there is less chance of injury to my back, that's for sure! Once I had that done and checked out, I put most of my stuff into a locker so that I wouldn't have to lug it around with me everywhere especially since I had plans to make a quick trip over to one of the chemists to ... read more

Today we went to the Powerhouse museum, which is like the Franklin Institute, only not as cool..Except they had a fabulous greek exhibit. I'm very impressed with all the archeology museums/exhibits we've seen; Sydney uni has an amazing little free archaeology museum that we took a tour of. I think I'll add an archeology class. Then we went on a walking tour with other international students and met some really nice ones and had a good time. We went out for dinner and had some...KANGAROO!! and CROCODILE!!! Finally! Kangaroo is AMAZING. Really tender and juicy and fantastic. My next business venture is to raise kangaroos (in the place of cattle).. they're also better for the environment. Crocodile tastes like chicken-really. We went to a small party tonight which was reminiscent of freshman year, but we met ... read more

Finances = Green Fitness = Amber Relationship = Green Arguments = One (Mark and Tweety Pie) Hi guys. Its our last day in Sydney and also our last full day in Australia. Neither of us can believe we're moving on or how quickly time is going. We passed our halfway point last Saturday and have just six weeks left before we come home. But there is still lots to do so enough of the grumbling and on to the recent highlights. We arrived back in Perth for the third time last Thursday and checked into our airport hotel. We must have looked very grubby and travel weary as they upgraded us to a spa suite! It was just a shame we only had one night to enjoy it as we had to fly out the next ... read more