Week 8 Sydney Harbour Today we awoke to start our day of sightseeing and exploring. We headed off to the Sydney Opera House and had a good walk around several times, admiring the spectacular architect of it and taking many photos. It took 14 years and cost $102 million to complete but was worth every penny as it’s one of the must-see sights in the world. In Australia they have a few nicknames for things, the Bridge being called the coat hanger an...

Week 7 Bridge Climb So the time had come for us to do what I think I can safely say has been the best experience since we’ve been away – the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb. I must say that I would recommend anyone who ever visits Sydney to definitely do this.We made sure we limited the alcohol intake the night before as you had to do a breathalyser test before you were allowed to get ready for the climb. We all got kitted up in our suits and went through...

Week 6 Kiwi Army As we had booked a trip to go up to the Blue Mountains the next day we thought we’d relax a bit today and not go too mad. Sydney FC were playing the New Zealand Knights so we thought we’d go and watch that in the evening. Plus it was another chance to tick a ground off of the list. We weren’t expecting too much after the last Aussie football match we saw but at least we thought there would be goals as Sydney were current Champio...

Week 5 New Years Eve Another early start as we had to make our way to the Airport to catch our flight to Sydney. Probably didn’t help that we had a long night in the Casino (well financially it did) but we were all pretty excited at the night ahead. We arrived at the airport nice and early, well very early in fact as our flight time had been put back an hour. The flight was ok, it only took just over an hour so it wasn’t long before we saw Hemmings an...

Week 4 Christmas Eve First we had the job of moving hostel away from and into the city. The first people that Jacko bumped into when we arrived there were two girls that he and Johno had met on holiday in Kos a few years back. Once we could get checked into our rooms we threw our bags in and made our way to the shops to buy our secret Santa presents (we had a $25 limit). We had to rush around a bit as the shops shut at 5pm and we didn’t leave until 3pm. We ...