Sydney
Well, we made it! The end of a very long journey - we clocked up over 5000k's and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves along the way. Would recommend this to everybody.
Dropped Cookie off in the morning and then checked into our hostel. It's fine, it's called Big Hostel and it's quite nice and roomy. There's eight of us in the doorm and again, all guys! I think the entire floor is just guys, I haven't seen a single girl in the shared bathroom for the four days we were there... Of course every time I'm changing, someone walks in - haven't been this jumpy in a while now!
The hostel is really close to Chinatown, so we went and had a little look around and went for some Vietnamese noodle soup, which was delicious. The service wasn't. It felt like we were back in Vietnam. It was good, I don't think it would have felt right if the service had been good.
Met some nice people, too, might meet up with a couple of them in NZ and then got ready for the rugby match. Yeah! Waratahs vs Chiefs in the Super 14. We walked to the stadium and it's great - it's so big and there's loads of people about handing out free gifts and flag things and other bits, which was great.
The match was really good too with the Waratahs loosing by only a few points - so sad - but it was exciting seeing the game. We were both shouting and cheering throughout, so I got a sore throat. Had a hot dog, too. Can't go to a match without eating a hot dog, right? It tasted a bit weird though...
After the match, Phil managed to get one of the players - the full back Peter Hewitt - to autograph his programme for him and it was the guy who was actually featured on the cover page, so that was a really nice touch!
The next day, we had a wander around Sydney, down to the Opera House and the markets, where we bought a certain someone a certain little something that will get to this certain person in about three months. Well, we could only afford sea mail... Sydney is alright and I like the harbour area with its ferries and markets. Lots of things remind you of London, like the street names and the buildings, which are Victorian in style. It's nice all around.
At the end of it all, it's a big city though with lots of traffic and lots of people, like any other major city. I'll see if it grows on me.
On our walks, we also came across a German Bierkeller! We had to have a beer then of course. Then we decided we liked it so much, so we had another. Then we decided to have some more, because there were quite a few different ones to try. And then we moved to the bar and discovered it was Happy Hour! So we had another couple. We were all set to go, but then the Oompah band started to play. So we stayed. And before you could say "Zwei Maß Bier, bitte", we were up on the stage, ringing cow bells...
We had planned at some stage to have dinner, but didn't want to eat dinner there (it was pricey but looked and smelled delicious!), so we had a pretzel. In the end, that turned out to be dinner. I blame Phil of course for leading me astray. Heheheheh... at some point, we left and went back.
The next morning saw us greeting the day very early and sprightly - who are we kidding? We spent most of it in bed and then we had a pizza and packed our bags, as we're getting up at 4.30am to fly to Christchurch, NZ. Yeah, baby!
Dropped Cookie off in the morning and then checked into our hostel. It's fine, it's called Big Hostel and it's quite nice and roomy. There's eight of us in the doorm and again, all guys! I think the entire floor is just guys, I haven't seen a single girl in the shared bathroom for the four days we were there... Of course every time I'm changing, someone walks in - haven't been this jumpy in a while now!
The hostel is really close to Chinatown, so we went and had a little look around and went for some Vietnamese noodle soup, which was delicious. The service wasn't. It felt like we were back in Vietnam. It was good, I don't think it would have felt right if the service had been good.
Met some nice people, too, might meet up with a couple of them in NZ and then got ready for the rugby match. Yeah! Waratahs vs Chiefs in the Super 14. We walked to the stadium and it's great - it's so big and there's loads of people about handing out free gifts and flag things and other bits, which was great.
The match was really good too with the Waratahs loosing by only a few points - so sad - but it was exciting seeing the game. We were both shouting and cheering throughout, so I got a sore throat. Had a hot dog, too. Can't go to a match without eating a hot dog, right? It tasted a bit weird though...
After the match, Phil managed to get one of the players - the full back Peter Hewitt - to autograph his programme for him and it was the guy who was actually featured on the cover page, so that was a really nice touch!
The next day, we had a wander around Sydney, down to the Opera House and the markets, where we bought a certain someone a certain little something that will get to this certain person in about three months. Well, we could only afford sea mail... Sydney is alright and I like the harbour area with its ferries and markets. Lots of things remind you of London, like the street names and the buildings, which are Victorian in style. It's nice all around.
At the end of it all, it's a big city though with lots of traffic and lots of people, like any other major city. I'll see if it grows on me.
On our walks, we also came across a German Bierkeller! We had to have a beer then of course. Then we decided we liked it so much, so we had another. Then we decided to have some more, because there were quite a few different ones to try. And then we moved to the bar and discovered it was Happy Hour! So we had another couple. We were all set to go, but then the Oompah band started to play. So we stayed. And before you could say "Zwei Maß Bier, bitte", we were up on the stage, ringing cow bells...
We had planned at some stage to have dinner, but didn't want to eat dinner there (it was pricey but looked and smelled delicious!), so we had a pretzel. In the end, that turned out to be dinner. I blame Phil of course for leading me astray. Heheheheh... at some point, we left and went back.
The next morning saw us greeting the day very early and sprightly - who are we kidding? We spent most of it in bed and then we had a pizza and packed our bags, as we're getting up at 4.30am to fly to Christchurch, NZ. Yeah, baby!
posted by Phil and Tanja @ 2:52 AM
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