Sydney Travel Blogs - Page 6

This morning I woke up in my icebox. We had the opportunity to visit a primary school down the road. The first thing I noticed was the all the students wore uniforms. The next thing I noticed is that 90% of them were Asian. At first I went to a year 5 class. There were 30 students squished int…

new year eve in sydney is all about fireworks display...if you want to watch the fireworks in the city, you have to come in and reserve your spot early in the morning. that is not eve a guarantee as some folks stay and reserve the spots a day or 2 before. they literally camp out and save the space.…

Lisa lives in Sydney and I hadn't heard from her since we were "going around together" at high school back around 1983.  It was funny timing as far as us reconnecting because I'd just moved from Tokoroa to Te Puke and she'd gone through a bit of an upheaval at home too.  Now about a year …

Haven't done much touristing about since I've been here.  First night got in around half five and got a free easy bus ride to central station, where I putsed around waiting for Bianca to get off of work.   4 hours later, 2 cups of coffee, 3 cigs, and one date request later I'm crashi…

Well, of course I left everything until the last minute and got no sleep before rushing off to the airport, speeding the whole way (I don't think I'd have it any other way). I checked in with few hassles, and my dad walked me to the security gate before waving goodbye like a normal person (no …

SEPTEMBER 8TH 2007 TO SEPTEMBER 14TH 2007 We took a night flight from San Francisco in the USA to Sydney which took nearly 14 hours! We departed the USA on the 6th September and arrived Sydney on the 8th September! We lost a day because of heading backwards over the date line! Sydney when we arri…

This morning a had to say goodbye to Dean, then sat around all morning in the hostel as our flight was in the afternoon.  Kerry and I were both really bummed out about leaving and it was fitting that it started to rain as our taxi drove out of Airlie Beach towards the airport.  On the way…

what i get up to from day to day.well pretty much just surf photos :P yeowww!

We haven't updated in a while, so let explain what we've been doing!We arrived at Sydney on Feb. 21st. We stayed there with Alice and Max (Siobhan's aunt and her husband). It was sooo nice having our own room, a nice and comfy bed, we knew it'd be hard to get used to the backpacker life after that!…

After months of preparation, painting walls, training the staff and conducting marketing campaigns, the champaigne flowed at the official launch of Sea English Academy Sydney.  It was a wonderful weekend with the new Sydney directors, staff, family and friends.  My role is overseing all o…

Was having a look on gapyear.com another good site to try and find travel buddies (well so I've heard). One of the members had this link as her fav website so I took a peek. I think it looks fantastic - an excellent way to see loads of countries in an organised way!!! Definitely for me anyways…

After a 9 hour flight, I land in Sydney on the most gorgeous Friday morning. Since its still Summer, I land on a really stinking hot day. Having spent the last month going through the coldest days I've ever experienced in my life, my body doesn't know how to react. Okay I knew before I touched down…

Ok, so left Thailand and much as I have enjoyed the food I announced to the people next to me on the plane that I was very much looking forward to eating something other than rice. 2 minutes later over the tanoy comes the captains announcement that the dinner options will be stir fried rice with se…

@ 32,000 feet, ex-Sydney, now in international airspace.  I'm in that strange place where fatigue and oblivion meet, more like stasis than sleep.  I am aboard a plane that is bound for Los Angeles via Bangkok, and its dateline time.  The cabin is silent and dark.  Just an…

Day 6 was one of the most tiring days for us because it involved a lot of walking, walking & walking. You'll know why so okay, we woke up much earlier as usual because our tour bus will be waiting for us at about 7.45am. We woke up around 6am (the same time i wake up to go to work) on this day.…