We started the week in the heart of Central Sydney living the hostel lifestyle in place called 'Bounce' which boasts the top spot of all hostels in Sydney. Luckily for us after a long flight then a short train journey from the airport the hostel was right outside Central train station. However we arrived at 9am and check in wasn't until 2pm, which was all we needed after having no sleep on the flight, once we did finally check in our first impressions of the hostel, clean and tidy and our private room was spacious with a big tv and air con so all was good, but we did pay a little under $750 to stay so I woodnt have expected anything different. We unpacked our bags then soon realised how exhausted we were and went to sleep at 2:30pm and woke at 9pm to grab food then straight back to sleep again and didn't wake up until the following day.
The first full day arrived and the weather wasn't great so thought we would head into town and scope it out, we went and got some information from all the big banks to decide on which one we wanted to open and we also grabbed new SIM cards with Aussie numbers. The next few days weren't to different to this first day and due to jet lag and tiredness we spent a lot of time at the hostel. We cooked breakfast and dinner most days in the communal kitchen on the top floor of the hostel which also had an outside rooftop terrace looking into the city, which was a decent setting whilst eating your food. As we were in a private room we didn't really mingle with any other guests at the hostel which we weren't too concern about because most people annoyed us anyway haha, not sure why, and we weren't being snobby but we kind of felt people living in Sydney had abit of a chip on their shoulder. Ah well on the east coast we shall be dorming all our hostels so will give us a better chance to meet people.
The middle of the week came and we came across a travellers travel and tours agent in the city called 'wicked travel' there we planned our east coast trip and booked the important tours such as the 'The Whitsundays' and 'Fraser Island' as they were the most popular and we run the risk of them becoming fully booked, in total we spend around £650 each on our greyhound coach travel and all our tours, the rest of the destinations we want to visit we will fit around the two tours we've already booked.
The best day we had in Sydney was the Thursday, we walked down to the 'Circular Quay' and around the harbour and opera house, it was the hottest day so far and I was roasting wearing jeans (amateur) but we grabbed some lunch at the famous 'Opera Bar' and considering everything in oz is suppose to be expensive we had burger and chips for $21 each which at the currenct exchange rate is only £13 and one the biggest tourist attractions in Sydney. After food we took a walk around the 'Royal Botanical Gardens' and laid in the sun for roughly an hour or more then headed round to 'Macquaries Point' to take some scenic pictures of the city. We had been walking all day and it was so hot and we were beginning to get tired so headed back to the hostel.
Friday arrived and it was another nice day, but a little windy. It was our last day in the City and we had seen most of it so took a cheap ferry from the harbour over to 'Manly Beach' first impressions were good a cool little area known for having a good surfers beach and the town was lively we lots of bars, resturants and decent surfer shops, we had a little walk round and sat down the beach then got ripped off for 2 slices of pizza and a drink each started to sink in abit more how expensive it can be in Australia. After we treated ourselves to some frozen yogurt and had a little look around the shops before heading back to the city.
That evening we made a cheap dinner then went to our room to repack as the next day we were heading to 'Bondi' to stay with a friend from home, Claire. She has been living in oz for a little under 2 years and agreed to put us up for the weekend.
We checked out of the hostel Saturday morning and headed to Bondi junction train station from Central Sydney where we met Claire, we jumped into a taxi and headed to her apartment, after freshening up we headed out to her friends place for a few drinks as we was heading out to a pre-planned event in 'North Sydney' at the 'Greenwood Hotel' which was holding a Halloween Circo Loco special. Although it was called Greenwood Hotel it wasn't actually a hotel and Claire enlightened us that most bars have hotel in their names but are in no way a hotel. We've been to many Circo Loco events before so thought we may aswell have a go at an Australian one, plus Matthias Tanzmann was headlining which is always a certainty in blowing the roof off, most the Djs were pretty average and I was really disappointed with Francesco Lomabardo's set as she has such good releases out at the moment but her set was fucking boring, that was just my opinion but there were others there clearly enjoying it as I saw one girl really having it, she almost looked like she was enjoying way too much and that maybe she was listening to something else lol, to be honest I think it may have been the drugs she most probably had consumed as it really wasn't that good. But sure enough Tanzmann jumped on and first track was a banger.
As our east coast trip was approaching me and Lisa were being very careful with our money and didn't really want to spend too much on drinks, however we still managed to spend 50bucks on 5 drinks, (standard event inflation). We headed back to Bondi early and left everyone and Greenwood and headed down Bondi road for dinner and found a nice little Thai place.
The following day was a day dedicated to exploring Bondi more and Claire really wanted to show us around, to be honest me and Lisa fell in love with the place as soon as we arrived and didn't really need much more persuading but was super excited to get out and enjoy it more, we went to a nice resturant called 'Neighbourhood' where we had quesadilla's and fruit juice then grabbed an ice cream from a new shop that had just opened, it was a roasting hot day and bondi was busy, we headed down to the beach to meet up with Claire's housemate as it as her birthday. We sat in the sun for about and hour then head round the coastal walk and we were lucky enough to be in Bondi during the time that they have sculptures put in place around the coast to walk round, so me Lisa and Claire headed round, the walk was very busy and when we got to the top the wind really picked up, gail forced winds were blowing everyone about the place so we headed back into the town. It was getting later on into the afternoon and we jumped on a bus to meet her housemate who was having a dinner at 'Watson's bay' a boutique hotel, the place was decent and well posh, the resturant and hotel was set on a mini fishing harbour and the back drop was a view of the city, it's known for a good place to watch the fire works on NYE in Sydney's harbour.
As we were about to start our travels for 4 weeks money was tight and Watson Bay was slightly too pricey so we made our way back to Bondi where me and Lisa had dinner at a local rotisserie resturant called 'The Char' where we had previously had lunch the day before, food in there was so good. Would defo be a regular if we moved to Bondi, big homemade portions, right up my street.
As the weekend came to an end we chilled at Claire's before catching some Zzzz's as the next day was the start of East Coast...
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