Apologies for not updating this sooner! Sydney was really good. Very city-ish though, and kind of similar to a lot of other big cities! (Aside from the fact it's got beaches and is much hotter!) It's a great place to start though, as you meet plenty of people.
Our first night in Sydney we headed to Sidebar - a really popular bar attached to our hostel! Had a great time, and it was a good way of introducing us to the Sydney lifestyle!
Had a wander round Sydney on the Saturday and visited Bronte beach - only for an hour or so, as it went from about 25oc to 15oc in the space of 3 seconds! Ended up falling asleep at about 6pm, very hardcore of us!
We met Gary (a friend of Kim's family from home) and his wife Trish for lunch at a seafood restaurant. And we both tried oysters!! It was a great treat for us, and Gary and Trish are kindly letting us stay with them over xmas!
The following couple of nights we went out in town. One of nights was spent sampling the delights of Kings Cross. Safe to say, never again! The main strip was full of strip clubs, hookers, pimps, tramps, druggies and general skanky people! Not the kind of place any parent would want their child going to! Ended up being a good night out though! We met some students from one of the Sydney uni's and ended up going to Bondi beach at 2am!!
We spent the last couple of days being generally lazy and wandering around Sydney a bit. (Also trying to get over jet lag!!) Visited Taronga zoo on our last day, and took lots and lots of animal pictures (which we won't bore you with!) We went for a meal in the evening with Jim and Craig. Jim works at the hostel and Craig was one of our room mates!
All in all, a good stay in Sydney - and we've got plenty of things to do there when we head back for xmas and new year!
