Our hotel in Sydney didn't have Wi-Fi so have been unable to blog and keep you up to date. So, here's a summary of our four days in Sydney.
30th December - after the night flight to Sydney and no sleep, we arrived at our hotel to be told that we had 6 hours to spare before getting to our room. So, we dumped our bags and spent the next few hours getting to know a bit of the city. The weather wasn't so good and it rained. When we finally got to our room we slept solid until the next day.
New Year's Eve - We made our way down to the harbour hoping to get a good view. We had only been there for about 30 minutes when they closed off the area due to it being full to capacity. That left us with hours without shade, to wait until midnight. It was awful. Full sun in 28 degrees. We did our best with water, sunscreen, sunhat and even an umbrella but it was unbearable and I was feeling a bit ill. An Australian couple, Lawrence and Angela came to my rescue and generously offered to share their sun tent with us. They were wonderful and transformed our day. The atmosphere and fireworks were awesome and even with the heat, well worth the wait.
Today, we went to Darling Harbour. An amazing place. The sun was out and everything is so bright and 'blue'. We had a really nice lunch here and took our time walking back to the hotel to get ready before going out for the evening. We had a 'little rest' and woke up at about 10:30pm! Needless to say, we went back to sleep until the next morning.
Today we bought an all day ticket so we could go on the ferries. First stop was manly, a seaside resort with golden sand. Then we went to Watson Bay to have some fish and chips from Doyles. They were very expensive and not a patch on Murgy's, Wetherby Whaler or even The Empire's. But then again, we are partial to Yorkshire fish'n'chips! The weather wasn't good today and it was really cloudy and verging on cold!
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