I keep waking up way too early.
I guess its because i sleep too early too…
Anyways. Today we bought a day-pass, a ‘MyMulti’ which gave us access to trains, buses, and ferries! Headed to the Central Station in Sydney that connected most of the train lines. The train is a bit like the GO Train but like a subway car? Not as nice. We got off here and walked towards the harbour bridge, instead of taking the train all the way over there. It doesn’t really feel like i’m in a foreign country besides the hills, mountains, accents, cars on the other sides, and the abundance of greenery around the city. We found a 3-storey Apple store too!
Since today was the public holiday for Anzac Day, there were a lot of people walking around too. When we finally made it to the harbour bridge, it was actually very crowded. Walked towards the bridge a bit and headed back around towards the Opera House. The different ferries headed off from this Circular Quay area, all included in the day-pass! The Opera House wasn’t as impressive as it is from farther away, but it is still pretty cool. After taking a look around and pictures of details etc, we went to look for food!
Uncle Ron and his wife recommended that we go to the Belgian Beer Cafe to try the beer and get our own pot of oysters! Unfortunately, it was closed. We weren’t sure if it was closed because of Anzac day or because it was lunch time… i guess we’ll never find out. We decided to head to our next destination to find food, Manly Beach via ferry which gave us a couple of nice angles of the Opera House and all of the beach houses.
Again, the Manly Wharf and Beach area was very busy. We found a small Japanese place with a revolving trail for lunch. Where we tried tempura oysters. nothing really… exotic though. hah.
Continued to head to the beach after that. Since it was crowded we just took a walk around to take in the scenery. There were a lot of people trying to surf on the small waves, looks fun!
We headed back into the streets before the beach and visited a couple stores. Quiksilver, Billabong, Element, RipCurl, it was actually pretty hard to buy stuff because of the currency difference. In Asia the prices are skewed a little because of the decimal point but here it looks the same, so the price seems a bit too much if you think about it in CDN… i’ll get over that soon cause i need to buy some surf shorts. I’ll bring a currency converter too – -;…
Anyways, we decided to take the ‘scenic’ route back, which took about an hour to Chatswood Station, and brought us up and around a suburban city view. That bus drivers were actually very nice, which doesn’t happen often enough with TTC drivers.
tomorrow. i fell asleep before we could decide where to go…. bondi or blue. we leave for cairns on thursday morning!
Harbour Bridge, behind all of these people
Opera House from up-close
Opera House, detail
Manly Beach
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