With it being our last day in Sydney we decided to take a ferry trip across the bay to see what all the fuss about Manley was. After stuffing ourselves with yet another Gelatissimo ice cream we headed out on the ferry in superb weather that allowed us to see across the bay for miles and miles and appreciate the opera house and harbour bridge all the more Manley was quite a quirky place with some British seaside characteristics about it, except for the large numbe...

Well - the last few days have been pretty busy, owing to a great turn in the weather and so finally we've been able to get out and about and sightsee in the sun! We had one last day of pretty average weather (day 3) in which we took ourselves off to the convict museum via the botanic gardens where we were inundated by Cockateils after deciding it would be a good idea to feed them on left over blueberry muffin! In the afternoon we took a tour of the inside of the ...

Day 2 in Sydney started with torrential rain - I could have cried! Instead we got on with things: Filled up on a monsterous breakfast at the hotel (Mark had at least 3 courses including full English, pancakes and cereal) and went to visit the aquarium in Darling Harbour. Got the old "cag in a bag" out (which by the way is great Cath - thanks so much!) and braved the long(ish) walk to the harbour from the hotel. The aquarium was really well put together,...

Arrived this morning at 8.00am and spent AGES going through quarantine ("aah you're from Britain - land of the mad cows and blue tongue" they chorused) the weather here is TERRIBLE at the mo and set to be so for the next few days so we are having to think of a wet weather plan :-( Today we just pottered around the opera house and the malls (to avoid the rain). The hotel is lovely, with great views over the harbour (our room included) - although a bit gr...