Settling in Sydney
Well, here we are still in Sydney's Kings Cross district. It's a bit grubby here but will do for us for now. We're slowly getting into this whole new lifestyle which is a bit of a shock after the comfortable and easy life back home. Cooking in a small kitchen with 15 other people can be a bit tricky, especially when many of them are German. We haven't really made many friends in the hostel yet because we don't spend too much time there, but we're becoming familiar with a few of the faces and everyone seems quite pleasant. There's one strange lad who controls the TV in the evenings, a load of Germans, some Swedes, Japanese, Irish, Brits and there seems to be a French family living there, as if it's their house, oblivious to the rest of us. Odd.
We're trying to hold back on spending too much at the moment so things have settled down since the trip, but we've had a good walk round the landmarks, trying to find ways of taking photographs that look different to the 6 billion other pictures of the Opera House that everyone's seen already.
On Wednesday we jumped on a ferry and headed over to Taronga zoo. The ferry over there is great, passing the opera house and giving superb views of the whole harbour. We might have seen it on telly countless times but it's still an impressive sight.
The zoo was great. It's built on a hill so we got a cable car up to the top and then worked our way back down to the ferry home. We caught a few shows and demonstrations, feeding the apes and the gorillas including one massive and grumpy arsed silverback. Charlotte got to fulfill a childhood dream by seeing the Koalas, although you couldn't hold them so we'll probably head to one of the sanctuaries to complete that picture.
We spent about 5 hours there so I think we got our money's worth.
Yesterday, we had a slow day to recharge and do some sums and plans for the next few weeks. We've got several options on what kind of transport we'll buy but we've been well equipped with some good advice from various people, so thanks for that! We might buy a local car rather than a 'travellers car' now, as they're quite a bit cheaper and probably haven't been round the country 800 times already.
So we could well end up with a ute. Best find out how to spell it then...
We're trying to hold back on spending too much at the moment so things have settled down since the trip, but we've had a good walk round the landmarks, trying to find ways of taking photographs that look different to the 6 billion other pictures of the Opera House that everyone's seen already.
On Wednesday we jumped on a ferry and headed over to Taronga zoo. The ferry over there is great, passing the opera house and giving superb views of the whole harbour. We might have seen it on telly countless times but it's still an impressive sight.
The zoo was great. It's built on a hill so we got a cable car up to the top and then worked our way back down to the ferry home. We caught a few shows and demonstrations, feeding the apes and the gorillas including one massive and grumpy arsed silverback. Charlotte got to fulfill a childhood dream by seeing the Koalas, although you couldn't hold them so we'll probably head to one of the sanctuaries to complete that picture.
We spent about 5 hours there so I think we got our money's worth.
Yesterday, we had a slow day to recharge and do some sums and plans for the next few weeks. We've got several options on what kind of transport we'll buy but we've been well equipped with some good advice from various people, so thanks for that! We might buy a local car rather than a 'travellers car' now, as they're quite a bit cheaper and probably haven't been round the country 800 times already.
So we could well end up with a ute. Best find out how to spell it then...
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