Six days in Sydney

Sydney: a city of friendly and overly good-looking people (and by that I specifically mean men).

This short but concise impression may be due to the fact that I had just spent six months in Korea- but nevertheless, a fantastic place to see the sights.  Besides the unusually high cost of food and drinks, Sydney boasted a fabulous hostel- Wake Up! Sydney Central. The hostel came complete with a kitchen, bar and helpful staff. I highly recommend this hot-spot hostel if you're making you're way into Sydney.

We particularly enjoyed the sidebar  until the wee hours on our second night in the city, where a one man show played awesome sing-along style tunes for the crowd.  The devastating part was completely losing the following day of vacation due to severe levels of dehydration, fatigue and full fledged hung-overness.  Why is that we never see the consequences until it is far too late?

We strolled Darling Harbor, and had wine at the Opera house bar. We checked out China Town and Hopped on and Off  a Bus Tour.  We gawked at the abundance of gorgeous men- and even took a little time out to flirt a tad. We took a day trip to BlackTown where we stood beside Koalas and fed Kangaroos (please note if traveling to both New South Wales and Queensland- be sure to do the Koala thing in Queensland - you can't hold the Koalas in NSW).

We saw the ever famous Bondi Beach and sunbathed at Coogee Beach. Most Australians will tell you that there is something with Ozone that is overly open above Australia and that we should where 30 factor sunscreen at all times (still not convinced if this is 100% true) We did just that, and after a mere two hours slicked with our 30 factor sunscreen realized that we had literally burnt to crisp ( I'm talking sun blister style). These Australians weren't kidding around.... It was only later that we figured out we had purchased an expired bottle of cream.

We sauntered through the gardens, and ferried our way to Manly to meet up with some friends.   Sydney took us by surprise and despite our sunstroke and blisters we trekked on to the Gold Coast where the adventures really began.