Blogs from New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 1141

Hi all, Decided to get a Travelblog. I know...it's a bit early...but you all know how I am! Just going to try and figure it out before we actually go! When are we going? We are leaving Sydney on Sat, May 13 2006 on Singapore Airlines. Here's a rough guide of what is planned so far: - Sydney to Singapore, 3 nights stay (including day visit to Sentosa Island) - Singapore to London, 3 nights stay - 21 day Cosmos Grand European tour - 2 nights in London (watching Opening WC game in a pub somewhere) - 1 night in Amsterdam (watching the Netherlands WC game in a pub somewhere) - 2 nights in Frankfurt (including the AUS vs Japan game in Kaiserslautern) - 1 night in Bern (watching the Switzerland WC game in a pub ... read more

Up early to go to church, had a nice lunch afterwards then we shot off to the Marrickville centre as they were advertising for staff at the Aldi. We applied for the lofty heights of a shelf stacker and a cashiers job. That evening we went into the city to go to Tumbalong park as part of the Sydney festival they had a free concert of fire. When we got there people had obviously been there all day set out with their blankets and food and brollies. Unfortunately we had none of these and it had started to drizzle (the fine rain that wets you through). So we got a couple of free magazines to sit on, found a nice spot and sat for 2 hours waiting for it to start. Just as it started a ... read more

All up quite early to prepare our picnic, which was quite impressive, for the day out. We drove over the Harbour bridge which made a nice change to see a different view of Sydney and the opera house. We arrived at our destination, Ku-ring-gai chase national park, to find that the visitors centre was closed so we drove on into the park to Bobbin head by scenic riverside where we had our picnic. As we set off in the scorching sun to do the board walk through the mangrove trees we saw a monitor (not a tv screen!) but a very big lizard. It was a nice pleasant walk. As the tide had gone out there were loads of crabs on the mud. Along the way we saw various lizards and skinks (lizard). We started another ... read more

Contrary to a statement made in a previous blog, we’ve not actually organized the big hike over the Harbour Bridge yet. The starting cost is about a hundred pounds per person for a night time walk at 3am, and increases rapidly from there, so we reckoned it would be a good idea to take a stroll across the pedestrian footpath first to get an idea of what we’d be paying out for. So after brekker one morning, we headed out to the Rocks area, which is right next to Circular Quay where we catch the ferry (and where we spent New Years Eve) to start the climb up the stairs to the walkway on the bridge. The bridge is actually quite wide, and there are designated areas for cars, trains, bikes, lorries, and pedestrians. You can’t ... read more

We’ve mentioned before that one of the things we were desperate to get to Sydney for was to do some shopping. We’re glad we waited as this city has a brilliant array of high street stores, malls, stalls & boutiques. We’ve spent some cash on new jeans for us both, new trainers for Alan, new tops for Shaz and some bath bombs for relaxation purposes (its so exciting that Paula’s apartment has a bath - such luxury!). There are some gorgeous shopping centres here - one in particular is called the Queen Victoria Building or QVB for short, which is located on George Street in the heart of the city. It’s a fabulous late 19th century affair which takes up an entire block, and also has some underground cavernous passageways beneath the roads outside. Décor wise ... read more