We're in Oz!
Wow - We're in Sydney! It's a bit nice here. We arrived on our flight from Bangkok safe and sound and checked into our room at The Jollyswagman Hostel (we've been singing the song quite a lot, along with 'Tie me kangaroo down sport'!). We opted for a dorm room as accomodation here is a bit more expensive than in Asia. It's okay, fairly clean and not too noisey but it is a bit like being back in Waveney except without the luxury of having your own room. Seems like there's a few evening activities we can get involved in if we like though which is quite fun.
We spent our first morning here in a shopping mall where we discovered it's Christmas time. Hadn't really noticed until now. Having said that though, it is a lot more subtle here, not that many decorations up.
In the afternoon we did what had to be done and walked through the botanical gardens to Mrs. Macquarie's Point to look out at the Harbour Bridge and Opera house. We'd caught a glimpse of the Opera House from the aeroplane window which was pretty cool, but it was amazing to look at from the Point.
We were quite surprised by the colour of it, not really as white as it looks on the photos you generally see, more of a cream colour with quite a lot of the brown metal showing through.
We were really impressed as we walked round at how green a city Sydney is, with plenty of nice places that you can sit and absorb the view. After walking to the front of the Opera house we thought it was time for a beer and a look at the cricket score. Later on we carried on defeating our jet lag for a few hours longer before falling asleep for a long time!
Today we visited the fabulous Sydney Aquarium. By all accounts we saw quite a lot of lovely little fellas! It's a nicely done place, with a few big tunnels to walk through to admire the sharks & fish. It was great! The Aquarium is situated in Darling Harbour which seems like quite an upmarket part of Sydney. Figuring we were on for a draw in the cricket we thought we'd have a look at the score in a bar for a while, but it turned out to be a bit of a match so that's where we continued the rest of our day really. Apparently when they win a match the Australians shout 'Aussie Aussie Aussie!'. We left quite sharply.
Sydney is a beautiful city, and we have a couple more days here to explore.
posted by Chris and Jen Coleman @ 9:40 am
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Wow! Sydney sounds really exciting, and already you've explored and got the feel of the place... cricket, beer and all!
I had a very amusing image of you both beating a hasty retreat to the roars of Aussie, Aussie, Aussie,.. sounds like you're having a great time already.
Catch up again soon
Love Mum & Dad (Swaffham)
xx
Love the little fellas! Your little fellas are feeling better, have nice clean water a bit of medicine and some yummy ant eggs that apparantly need to be sucked in and spat out at least ten times before they're eaten!! No more scarey moments of finding Doris floating on the surface!! Hooray!! I'm sure Boris and Little Jen are growing!!
The new bunnies have become best friends after the nasty storms and now are cuddling constantly, it's all good.
Have a lovely time in Oz and watch out for flying houses, cowardly lions and yappy dogs called Toto.
Sisxxx
Glad to hear you're OK and the trip's still going well, I must admit I was a little concerned when I heard about Typhoon Durian being "down your way" earlier in the week!
Chris.
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