I don't know how, or indeed why, but the Beave' was up and bouncing around the room when the alarm went off to wake us up this morning... I think he was excited about going back to Sydney (which is where he's going to be living for the next year or so). With it quite obvious we weren't going to be getting any more sleep this morning, we got up. Me and Nikki packed our bags, had some breakfast in the café downstairs, which was free, and then went back to see what we'd missed yesterday at the War Memorial.
It didn't take long to walk there (I don't know which way we'd cycled yesterday, but it was definitely quicker on foot) and it was certainly worth the effort. It was more like a museum than a memorial - they had huge exhibits from all the wars that the Australians had been involved in, including actual planes and guns (some of which had been removed from tanks). We got to see the tomb of the unknown soldier and a huge wall covered in all the names of the servicemen who lost their lives. Afterwards we walked back to the hostel, collected our bags and walked on to the bus station.
The bus journey to Sydney was quite quick - well compared to all the other journeys since we left Darwin - and we were there in about 3 hours. At just after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Sydney looked just like it did when we left it nearly 19 weeks ago... overcast! We got off the bus and walked the short distance to our new hostel, Big Hostel, where we checked in for two nights. The hostel is really quite cool - they offer free breakfast, free internet and we're in a family room - although today they'd oversold it, so Steve has to sleep on a fold-out bed on the floor.
When we were all settled, Steve went out on his own and me and Nikki went for a walk around the city to try and get our bearings. Something must have come flooding back to Nikki because, as we were walking around, she suddenly remembered the food court we'd ate in on our last visit and insisted we went back. It was worth it though - we were just in time to catch them selling the last of the food off - so we got 3 tubs of chinese food for $7 (that's less than £3). After our tea we took a walk down to Darling Harbour which, as it was Friday night, was buzzing with people who had left work for the weekend. We sat and did some people watching and then took a slow walk back to our hostel.
It's nice to be back in Sydney, but I think I like Melbourne more... so far anyway!
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