Geekmonkie.©: July 2007

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Sydney Trip Post

My long long overdue post. As most of you already know, me and Deedoo went on our "romantic getaway" to Sydney a week ago. It was a great trip, we did a few interesting tours, snapped some beautiful pictures and ate some great food over there. The horrible weather was a shame, but could be easily overlooked nonetheless. Anyways here's a quick summary of our trip, skipping all the mushy bits =)

Day 1: Arrival. Took a train from the airport to the station nearby our backpackers hotel (called Wake Up! ). This is my first time staying in one of these. It was an excellent choice, the place was very nice looking and clean, and the room provided us with minimum necessities. And to our surprise, we even had a TV!!! We stayed near Chinatown and was walking distance to the Darling Harbour. We had a good rest and then strolled to Darling Harbour to snap some quick pictures before the sunset and had a wonderful dinner at a place called the Black Bird. We ended the day with a night stroll through the Aquarium.

Day 2: Spent the day at Circulay Quays. The weather was wonderful, sunny and not too cold. We had a full English breakfast to fuel us for the day and quickly worked our way up the steps of the oh so famous Sydney Opera House. Then , we took a long walk to this park where we had a great view of the Opera House with the Harbour Bridge behind it. In the evening we went to Bondi Beach and treated ourselves to some awesome bbq pork ribs at The Hurricanes! Those of you who've been to Sydney would probably have been there and those of you who havent, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU TO DO SO!!!

Day 3: Long bus trip up to the Blue Mountains. Walking through the trails was pretty fun for the first hour or so was pretty fun, but it started to get tiring and the light rain didn't help either (it made the steps slippery). Nevertheless, it was an interesting experience and we had a good breath of fresh air. We also managed to catch a glimpse of the Three Sisters....

Day 4: Next up was Port Stephens for dolphins watching. Things looked gloomy at first as in it was pouring cats and dogs when we left. (Un)fortunately it take 2-3 hours to get there so by the time we reached there during lunch time, the storm was over. Going out to the sea and looking at the dolphins were probably the highlight of the trip, and we caught a good video of them jumping around too! Also included with the trip was a short detour to the sand dunes. They were pretty huge, and we were allowed to sandboard down the dunes. It was really fun going down, but climbing up in the sand isnt as fun.

Day 5: Nothing much here. Visited my aunt in the morning and we chatted and yamcha-ed till lunch time. It was pouring once again so we had to stay in. We did, however managed to go to Lowenbrau Keller for dinner. They are famous for German beers and pork knuckles (and of course, sausages). The beer was pretty good but the pork knuckle was so-so (disappointing since i was most looking forward to it)

Day 6: Check out time. Met up with Sue Ann and her friends for yamcha and to catch up a bit on old times. I think she is starting to develop some slang, cause she sounded 100% malaysian 2 years ago. After that we went to indulge ourselves at the Lindt cafe. Anyone familiar with chocolate will know what im talking about. Absolutely sinful, yummy chocolate. Anyways that kinda rounds up the trip. This is the first time I've travelled without anything planned beforehand (and without parents) and i must say its quite an experience and i think we managed to cover quite a lot of places in a short amount of time.