My last trip on the Oz Experience heralded an early start - I definitely wasn't cut out for this! The journey was fairly boring, one highlight being a giant replica of Ayres Rock housing a service station!? Eight hours down the road and the bus was trundling through Sydney's northern suburbs and over the famous harbour bridge. For some reason I agreed to a drop off miles from my hostel, with backpack in tow this was less than appealing. Finally guided to my hostel thanks to the help of numerous locals, I checked into my room and got chatting to some people in there. It turns out the hostel is popular with long term guests who are working in Oz, this wasn't good for me as they seemed less than bothered getting to know any new faces! Once I was settled, I ventured out to see a bit of the city and get some groceries. Stocked up, I head back to the hostel, had an uneventful dinner and went to bed.

Day two in Sydney was a day I had been looking forward to for weeks! I pottered around the hostel until the early afternoon when I got a text from my beloved Norwegians! They had come into the city for the evening to see me, I was stoked! We wandered round the city and regaled each other with stories, grabbed some food and it was back to the hostel to get ready for the nights festivities! We head to a gay club called "Arq" which was a total fiasco. Camilla only had flip flops on so she wasn't allowed in, she urged Caroline in whilst she ventured out to get shoes...lord knows where she thought she'd find any! Caroline and I literally danced the night away, despite the club being passably mediocre, we had a blast.



It's an Arq party!

Considering the night was ridiculously late, we were up crazy early. From the hostel, we wandered through the Royal Botanic Gardens to Circular Quay, home to the Opera House and Harbour Bridge.




I want to be a Chinese tourist!




The Opera House was surprisingly small, although I'm not really sure how big I was expecting it to be! We sat at a restaurant and had a lovely lunch in the sun. A quick wander round the quay found us outside the Museum of Contemporary Art, we made it as far as the gift shop! The time arrived for the girls to head back to Manly Beach, just across the bay and I was on my own again.

The following day I made a massive error and attempted to walk...and walk....and walk, to Bondi Beach. Despite everyone telling me how over hyped it was I thought I'd give it a look, low and behold it was a total let down. I marvelled at the surfing for a while and caught a bus (ingenious!) back to town.



Bondi!

For the evening, I met up with Dara and Katie from Airlie Beach ad we had some quiet drinks in King's Cross.

Sydney is a beautiful city and the people are super friendly, I'll definitely be making a return visit - maybe permanently...