Sydney

Sydney is by far the most expensive place I've ever been!!!!

Now I've got that out of the way... I stopped in Sydney for 6 days without any real plan for my stay.
My hand was forced slightly by the poor weather (cold and wet) so I spent my whole time in the city itself.

I spent most of the 6 days exploring on foot. Making use of a multi entry ticket valid in 10 of the city's museums and historic buildings. They were very interesting but I won't list them all here... That said I was surprised how historical and quite how pretty Sydney was.My highlights mainly came about just through strolling around the different districts.







I was staying in a typical city backpacker hostel, which seemed to be full of stag do's... So I didn't spend too much time hanging around there! In fact most of the bars I found in central Sydney were either typical after work pubs, backpacker pubs... Or bizarrely pub come bookies. All of them were ridiculously expensive.

I did find one great bar after a bit of research, that had live BA da on every night... I went there 4 of my nights in Sydney! Sadly it was closing down the week after I moved on. A real shame




I shouldn't forget to mention my surreal night watching the Royal Wedding in Circular Quay with another Brit and a couple of pro Monarchy Aussies. In what became an increasing drunken night, I was interviewed twice by Aussie TV before it all decended into shambolic singing of Jerusalem...

I also managed to increase my football match attendances to 3 continents by going to a match in the New South Wales league. The match APIA Tigers vs Sydney Olympic, was in fact a match between two historic clubs representing Sydney's Italian and Greek communities respectively. The clubs have long histories and a long local rivalry and as such the attendance was in the higher hundreds. The barman also brought me a beer, top afternoon!

After a brief spell of civilisation, back on the travels again. Next stop Buenos Aires...

See you there