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Hello from Sydney, I think its safe to say that New South Wales ain't much like South Wales although at the moment it seems it rains almost as much.
Sydney is a fantastic city, a proper city unlike Camberra. Although one word of advice to anyone about to visit Sydney is that if you're going to see the Opera House make sure you see it on a nice day. On a miserable day its really nothing special but if you see it on a nice day it'll blow you away.
So we did all the touristy things, saw the Opera House, Harbour Bridge, wandered around the rocks (the first settlement in Sydney), went to the oldest pub in Sydney although apparently there are 2 pubs who think they're the oldest so it might have been the second oldest pub in Sydney. Wandered around the Botanical gardens admiring all the wierd, wacky and loud birds. Caught a ferry to Manly and admired the beach and lovley National park headlands. Had a wander around Bondi Beach although we both prefered Manly Beach to Bondi beach.
Oh and by the way we also blew the budget a bit and climbed Sydney Harbour Bridge which was pretty surreal and surprising not a difficult as we (especially Kate who's afraid of heights) anticipated the only hard bit was the mesh (therefore see-through)walkways on the way to the main arches once we were up the arches it was just fantastic admiring the views.
We also went on a day trip to the Blue Mountains which were really beautiful luckily for us it was a beautiful day so we could enjoy all the spectacular views of the mountains, really great day just walking about in the bush.
Also met some more interesting people the guy in the pics on the website is called Jamal an immigrant just arrived fresh from Iran, a really lovley guy who was kind to us, and we went out for 1 drink with him to celebrate his birthday, he got drunk on 1 scooner of beer (less than a pint).
Thats about it really went to China town and bought some cheap clothes, had to run for the bus to our next destination because was so distracted writing the blog that lost tracck of the time. Bye
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