Beach day today! We caught a ferry from Circular Quay to visit Manly Beach. It took 30 minutes and cost $13.50 (£8.50) each return...not cheap. It's clear blue skies today and warm, so we got good sunny views of Sydney as we went across Manly has a nice beach with good surf. I went in and it was freezing! I soon warmed up though, battling through the waves and trying to swim with the waves. I'm looking forward to learning to surf next week. I prefer a beach wit...

Up early to get our washing sorted this morning. We're jam packed for the next couple of days and need to get our backsides in to gear. Today we did....the Harbour Bridge Climb! We took a long walk up George Street and saw the Harbour Bridge for the first time since we got here. It's huge! We'd already pre-booked it for today at 1pm - booked it the other day and that's all they had left for the week! Before we got started though, we had to have our lunch...that...

Finally used some bacon this morning! Bacon and scrambled egg butty I had. Bloody lovely. The weather is pretty poor today. Quite cold really and windy with fine rain. We had a few things to sort out anyway so didn't really have time for sightseeing, so it's a good thing it's not cracking the flags! Ben, the guy I used to work with who we tried to see the other day, was back in work today so we decided to go see him up in The Cross. We were going to get the tub...

Didn't get up until 2.30pm. Woke up a few times, and even set my alarm for 10am, but was just too tired to get up. I thought it was alcohol-free wine. We went for a walk down on Darling Harbour and around a sort of water fountain play area. There was quite a few water features and people we're playing in them. Too cold for anything like that back home! We NEEDED some sort of fast food, so shared a KFC (hangover cure). It was one of those box meals with a chicke...

Happy Christmas everybody!! We had to drag ourselves out of bed this morning at 10.15am - snoozed for an hour as well! We quickly got ourselves ready, then went down to the kitchen to prepare our Christmas dinner... We made our turkey, stuffing and cranberry sandwiches and our cous cous salad. Took a while in the busy kitchen with limited utensils and pans! Some people are so scruffy too and just leave pans in the sink and food in the plug hole. Yesterday, we...