Thursday 13th December 2007

We woke up this morning for our final day in Sydney and thought we'd spend it looking round the city - checking out things we liked or had not seen before. We had some breakfast and surfed the net for a bit, before getting ready and hitting the streets. We started by going to Paddy's Markets to have a look around and then we walked round the Glen and Jades apartment, because it's Jade's birthday and we wanted to drop off her card and a small present. We didn't stop, instead we headed for Kings Cross, which is where we stayed when we were in Sydney five months ago.

To get there we walked through Hyde Park and we stopped for a couple of minutes to watch a dance group who were performing - they were playing really cool rock 'n' roll music and strutting their stuff - it looked like good fun! Afterwards, we walked to a place which we'd seen the last time we were here called Harry's Café De Wheels. It's just a tiny little shack thing on the edge of the water and it has become quite famous, and has had loads of celebrity customers. As it was almost lunch time, we thought we'd get some food and it was packed - there was a huge queue, so we thought the reviews must be right! They specialise in hot dogs and pies, so Nikki had a 'Chilli Dog' and I had a 'Hot Dog de Wheels' (which was a hot dog, chilli, mushy peas, cheese sauce, onions and more chilli sauce). They were both massive and eating them proved to be a challenge (well, staying clean anyway) - but it was a challenge me and Nikki were up to!

When we'd finished our 'lunch', we took a walk around the wharf to a place called Mrs Macquarie's Chair, which has amazing views of the Opera House with the Harbour Bridge in the background. Next we took a walk through the Botanical Gardens, which were beautiful, and round to the Opera House. We sat around for a few minutes - people watching, and then looked in a couple of the shops around Circular Quay. By now, we'd arranged to go out with the Beave' tonight - so we thought we'd head back to the hostel to get some rest. On the way we had a look in more of the shops on Pitt Street and Nikki bought herself a really nice Bondi Beach hoody.

The Beave' had told us that he was viewing a flat tonight at about 7pm, and would come round to meet us straight after - so we were expecting him at about 9ish and were shocked when he turned up just after 7.15pm. Me and Nikki finished getting ready and then went out. We figured, seeing as it was our last night in Sydney we'd go for some food - and headed up Oxford Street in look of some swanky place to eat. We found a really cool looking Indian restaurant called Tandoori Palace and went in there. The meal was amazing! I had a madras which, even though it wasn't as hot as the ones at home, had more flavour and Nikki had a lamb biriyani. We spent a couple of hours chatting and having a laugh about our time together in Australia and then afterwards decided we'd go for one last drink somewhere. The Beave' said we could pick the place and we chose somewhere not far from our hostel called the Scary Canary - we'd not been in there before, but we had more of the free drinks vouchers (ha ha). It turned out to be a pretty good choice, because it was pretty busy and they had a live band - who were playing good music. When we'd finished our drinks we left and said our final goodbyes to the Beave' (for Australia anyway, we'll definitely meet up back home when he gets back) and then walked back.

Bye bye Beaver... Beaver bye bye!