att göra en resa...: Sydney!

Last Wednesday we flew over from New Zealand to Australia, Sydney. Gotta admit I was a tad nervous to go through the security check, mostly because people (like my mom and Erik’s grandmother) has given us some serious warnings after watching Border Security on TV haha. But of course it is waaay blown up on TV, the border control went super smooth and honestly the border control in Auckland was twice the size and much stricter.

It tooks us literally 30 minutes to collect our baggage, go through border control, take the train to the city center and to arrive on our hostel. We had a grand welcome, there was free drinks up at the rooftop. One hour later we got wasted on the famous goon wine (bag-in-box, extremely cheap wine that kind of tastes like vinegar). Brilliant welcome and an awesome hostel. Met some really nice guys (from England of all places, who would have guessed that) whom we spent the upcoming days with.

DAY 1

Erik and I went on a free city tour to get some orientation around the city. We have done this in almost every big city we visit, Auckland, Paris, Edinburgh etc. It’s always so good in order to get to know a city quick and get some interesting background story. In the evening we drank goon-wine again with our roomies and ate 2$ hot dogs at the rooftop.

DAY 2

Went to the Beach of all the beaches- famous Bondi beach! It was much smaller in real life, that was a bit surprising. But still a lot of amazingly hot surfer dudes and big waves so that made up for everything, thihih. We spent the evening at the rooftop again drinking more goon aaand…can’t remember the rest.

DAY 3

Took the ferry with the other guys to Manly beach. Unfortunately, it was sooo much smoke all over Sydney. Apparently there has been a controlled fire 110 km away by the Blue Mountains, and the smoke was everywhere. In the afternoon it got a bit better though. Manly was so nice, I think I might have preferred that place to Bondi beach. Very relaxed beach town vibe and SO much tasty sushi.

DAY 4

Took the train to the Blue Mountains, the weather was a bit grey and it was still a bit smokey after the fire so I didn’t know if it would be worth it or not, but for only 2,5 $ to get there and back it was SO worth it. So pretty, a very different place. Took a hike there. Interesting, considering the fact that we did 0 hikes in NZ which is the “land of the hikes”, seriously. In the evening we checked in to another hostel, literally across the street from the amazing one. It doesn’t have a rooftop, but I guess I can live with that for now ^^