We were up before the alarm again this morning and, after getting ready and having some breakfast, we sat in the common-room of the hostel watching The Simpsons - waiting to use the internet (the hostel had given us half-hour free). Afterwards we walked round the corner and checked into our new place - Chilli Blue Backpackers.
Once we were all checked into our new hostel we headed down towards the centre because we wanted to sort out our Greyhound Bus Passes. We've decided that we're going to leave the main attractions in Sydney until we return (in about November) and that we're going to start heading North, up the East coast this weekend. With that sorted, (we're booked on the bus to Newcastle on Saturday), we went to explore...
Our first stop was the St Andrews Cathedral, which stands out because it's really old looking and is surrounded by new buildings - it turns out it's actually the oldest Cathedral in the whole of Australia! We looked round the shops and then went for some lunch. We ended up in the same food-court as yesterday, (which Nikki says is the biggest she's ever seen), and both had some yummy Chinese.
This afternoon we walked down to the Sydney Harbour Bridge and then on a massive trek to Darling Harbour. We spent a few hours walking around in the sunshine (it was quite warm today - because there was no wind), before heading back. We walked home a different way - along Oxford Street and stopped in an Irish pub called O'Malley's, where we had a free-beer from staying in the Jolly Swagman.
Man, Sydney is BIG - all that walking's wore me out!
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