Today was my Mum's birthday, so I was feeling a little homesick as it dawned on me just how far away I was. I had arranged some flowers to arrive at the house and Dad was due to deliver the birthday card. For us in Sydney it was a rather leisurely day, we went to the market to buy some cheap veg and had a walk round Sydney dropping in to some tour offices. We mainly used the day to book trips for Brisbane and Cairns. After listening to the tour sales pitches we f...

Today started with us needing to move rooms as we had increased our time in Sydney YHA but had needed to change to a double ensuite (yay our own bathroom) as all the cheaper rooms were taken. We stored our luggage until check in opened and headed off to the weekend market in The Rocks. The Rocks was the area of Sydney where the convicts use to live as it was an area covered in...you guessed it rocks! The convicts cleared the rock in order to build there and over ...

Being close to Laura's birthday and with little free time, I arranged to spend a portion of the day securing her presents.Despite some mild protests about not needing a present and knowing I would be in trouble if I actually did this I went to paddy's market. It may seem a bit low brow to purchase a gift from the market but I'm a backpacker and poor, as the saying goes when in Rome...... Despite being off my lead for the day I was unable to find a present, it ap...

The day started with us searching the market again. We have become fond of there tacky ways since Hong Kong. A 20 minute walk later and we were at the habour. The great thing about Sydney center. It's so compact and everything is so easy to walk to! The Sydney Opera house was designed by a danish man named Jorn Utzon, unfortunatley Mr Utzon was more of an artist than a designer. In 1957 he submitted a design in to a competition for the Sydney opera house. The d...

Waking up in Sydney having survived the storm, we discovered something terrible. Laura and I had not been to a market in a few days and we were reaching critical. The urge had crept upon us and we needed to find one! Thankfully one of the largest markets in Sydney was a brief stroll from our accommodation. Paddy's Market hosts one of the largest collections of knock off gear and copywrite infringement I have ever seen. The market was also home to ALOT of touris...