This week, I have been mostly eating.....Steak

After mondays cloudy weather, myself and beth were looking for some sun, and Sydney did not dissapoint. The very next day the sun was shining so after a long lie in we went to the Tongola zoo which is accross the bay so we had to get a ferry, this provided some good photo spots though. (see atatched)

On wednesday we decided to hit the beach, and headed off to Bondi Beach.

As you see the weather was great. This beach was great but the water is definatly for surfers as i was getting hit by 2m waves (see below pic)

After the beach we went back, showered and got out for a bite to eat, this is the view from the place we had a bite at.

After this we went to the bar called 'Minus 5' little bit decieving as inside its a constant -15 C and so the whole bar is made out of ice, including your glass. You get a coat and gloves when you go in but this only works for about 20 minutes, then your freezing.

Today we went on the tour to the Blue mountains, this had some great views (see below) and after this we went to an old winery for a private wine tasting. this was great and we bought 2 bottles as they dont sell it anywhere else except thier winery.

We went up the steepest railway in the world as well, here is a pic, remember that this pic is taken with the camera actually pointing up about 10-15 degrees above horizontal.

Off shopping tomorrow as it is our last day in sydney, looking forward to the tour as sydney is pretty hectic (same as all cities). Bring on the beaches.

Pics

Here are the pics

Arrived!

We have finally arrived, after the longest flight anyone could imagine. When we got to Heathrow the kind woman decided to drop a bomb on the whole holiday and let us know that STA Travel had not confirmed barry's visa and so would get turned back at customs in Sydney. Thanks STA Travel! She fixed it at heathrow though and so all was well.

What made the flight bad was the most grumpiest woman (machine cos she diddnt go the toilet once in 20 hrs) in the world, we have decided to name her Grumps! She would not let Beth even get out to go the toilet without moaning but all was well becuase the flight staff must have noticed the grumps as they wheeled a trolly into her foot, which at first was good, but then she moaned about it for about 4 hrs.

Sunday night was all about trying to get over the jet lag, but this was hard as we couldnt get to sleep until 2am. We had to go for a swim in the 24 hr Roof top pool to tire us.

Sydney is a lovely city but today was quite cloudy, forcast says to be sunny for rest of week though. Today we went to the aquarium, saw MASSIVE sharks, they better not be up the coast where we are going. Walked round the opera house, its nice.

Beth is missing her home comforts (especially her bed) and its only day one!

Map of trip

My girlfriend (beth) and I thought it would be a good idea to include a map of where we are going, with dates. so here it is.

2 Weeks 2 days

So there is 2 weeks and 2 days to go untill I leave the shores of england and jet off to the land of Oz. Everything is paid for and managed to rent a Mazda Mx-5 for when we are in Cairns.

I thought I'd include a detailed list of my trip.

April 28th - jet out
April 29th - Arrive and get to hotel, sleep
April 30th - May 5th
Sydney
May 5th - Tour starts

Tour =

may 5th - go to mythall lakes
may 6th & 7th goto Bryron Bay
may 8th & 9th - Gold coast
may 9th, 10th & 11th - Fraser Island
may 12th - rockhampton
may 13th, 14th & 15th - Whitsunday islands
may 16th, 17th & 18th - Cairns

Then we are staying in Cairns until 23rd when we fly back, arriving back home about dinner time Thurs 24th May.

Heres the car I am renting from 18th May - 21st May

7 weeks to go!

Only 7 weeks to go, so i will post some pics i have found on the net which were taken on the tour that we are going to take.

Started booking

Flights are booked,,,, Deposit paid on tour,,,, money set aside for hotels. things are looking good!

11 weeks and counting.

I have bought a camera and expect it to be delivered v soon. All thats left is to become a good photographer