The day I arrived in sydney I checked into a pretty decent hostel called Sydney Central YHA! (after having tried a few to no avail) It has some decent facilities which are quite impressive such as Cinema, Sauna room and roof top swimming pool! The weather so far has been mildly warm to hot esp at midday with intervels of rain. So far I have met some pretty decent people in this hostel to name two there was Peter from England and Oscar from the Netherlands. Today the three of us trekked to some real major parts of sydney going briefly to the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Opera house, Sydney Cove (AKA Port Jackson), The Rocks and a brief visit to Darling harbour. We covered all this today on foot and my feet are killing me! -=[I will upload some photos that I took I just need to write this while it's all still fresh in my head!]=- This was a truly nice experience the views and places look amazing. The Opera house being a very impressive piece architecture and Sydney Cove was also very impressive. The Rocks is a place which holds some of the most oldest buildings in Australia dating back to the periods of first settlement, it gets it's name mainly from the fact the buildings are buit from sandstone rock! We managed to find the oldest pub in Sydney and of course could not resist a well earned pint in there after all this trekking. It was in Port Jackson I saw the first Aboriginal, they were playing the didgeridoo and I was able to join in with them surrounded by tourists taking photos of us! My impressions so far of Sydney as a city it is very clean, vibrant has some great architectures and it is especially laid back and nothing like the fast pace of London! We then had to bid farewell to Oscar and me and Peter proceeded to a bar. It was here where I spent the rest of the afternoon. We met a couple of vagrants in here, two brothers from Belgium who have been travelling for 10 years! Needless to say I got pretty hammered and after loads of walking and mild heat not a great combination and so what happened when I got back? yep I fell asleep and woke up at 11PM! this is the second time I have crashed at a stupid time now and my body clock is crazy, I was up and about from 5AM today! Jet lag still seems to be taking it's toll.
I hope to come back to the Darling Harbour and Botanic Gardens tomorrow to get a more detailed experience of the two places.
Au revoir for now!
