Sydney the journey continues
From Around the world with Tony and Jill in Sydney, Australia on Feb 18 '07
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Arrived in Sydney at 11.00am and bought a 3 day pass the trains, buses, underground, trams and ferries. Took the underground to St James and booked in at the Swissotel. We arrived and checked in we were handed a letter to say that Geoff and Renee friends from Esporta had arrived. We went for a walk to Darling Harbour and took the ferry to Circular Quay for our first sight of The Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and the skyline. One the way back we stopped at Luna Park and rode the Ferris Wheel to take great pictures of Opera house, bridge and harbour. In the evening we met Steve Arthur seeing him for the first time in 3 years, since he emigrated.
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Monday we went on a two and a half hour harbour cruise viewing the sights from the water. We also took in some sights from the Sydney Explorer bus with commentary from the driver, at 6.00pm we met Steve at the Domestic Air Terminal who took us to his house in Woolongong, via the beach where we met Hazel, Steves mum, Rob Arthur, wife Linda and their three daughters. We enjoyed drinks and nibbles with them before having a barbecue at Steves with his children Meg and Dan.
Tuesday we took the train into Sydney Central, then the bus to Circular Quay and took the ferry to Manly Beach spent time on the beach watching surfers.
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On the ferry ride back to Sydney we saw QM2 which had arrived from Auckland, met Steve and family at Quay and went for a meal in the Rocks the oldest part of Sydney. After the meal we watched thr fireworks to celebrate the arrival of both QM2 and QE2.
Wednesday train into Sydney, and then took Bondi Explorer bus to Bondi Beach, a much better place and beach than we expected, clean beach many restaurants and loads of surfers. Met Steve at airport again and ate after swimming in the local seawater open air pool.
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Thursday Steve took us to airport and we said farewell to a beautiful city.
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