Sydney
Well I made it here. Although the “for your convenience” flight renumbering did leave me slightly confused as my flight out of Bangkok had been both renumbered and retimed! The flights as ever were excellent: films and music that you watch and play as and when you want to, and meals on proper crockery with metal cutlery and a real glass to drink out of. Unfortunately no more flights on Singapore Airlines.
I was woken around 8am for breakfast and my little TV said we were over Uluru (Ayers Rock). It’s down there somewhere under the clouds. With two and a half hours to go to Sydney it dawned on me really how big Australia is- and I’m going to do half of it on a bus… in just over six weeks….!
First “G’day mate” came from the immigration officer who let me in, I resisted answering the question “do you have any criminal convictions?” with “no sorry, I didn’t realise that was still an entry requirement”.
So sometime later I arrive in Kings Cross, where I’ll be for a couple of nights. All I managed to do that day was sleep quite a lot, go and book a Greyhound bus pass (my route is about 10,700km- in 6 weeks!) and have my first Aussie BBQ.
The weather is quite cool, very cloudy and rainy, but I still defiantly wandered around town in my shorts and flip flops. As I’ll be back for New Year, I just wandered around the parks, down to the Harbour, looked round the Opera House, went to the bridge via Circle Quay and the Rocks, and walked back home through the botanical gardens. Not bad for one afternoon!
Within 24 hours of arriving, I’d already started saying “no worries, mate”, had 2 barbeques, seen the bridge and opera house and seen someone playing the didgeridoo. The stereotypes are coming thick and fast!
Tomorrow off to Canberra.
Tags: Travel
Nick