SYDNEY=KINDA WIN.
Sydney, for all practical purposes does not rock. However, it does cut the mustard.
So here we are, in a rather nice city. Nothing is more than 200 years old. So when they say 'our history' you can practically see Europeans going "Awww, they think they have history. That's so cute!"
So anyway, I have seen the major sites- The Sydney Fish Market (its hilarious that their speciality is chocolate coated strawberries), the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House, Darling Harbour, Kings Cross (grossly overrated, by the way) and a Burger King rip off known as Hungry Jacks. Also Pie Face. Do not miss out on Pie Face in Sydney. Not that you can, its everywhere.
I'm at Glebe- often pegged as an intellectual centre and glamorous suburb. Well, sure I guess. A bit of an exaggeration but there is a lot of good food, cheap at that. I also found an unpublished first draft lying about. So yeah, Glebe is one of my favourite places in Sydney. If I come back, I'd stay at Glebe again. Even if it is a fucking 20 minute walk from everything fun.
I also heard about the letter that Queen Elizabeth wrote to the Australian Public which will be opened and read out in 2085. Makes you wonder what she wanted to tell them that had to wait till she was dead and gone.
'Dear Australia,
Just FYI - you're sitting on a mine field. Oh and we sold you off to Canada.
Hope that's okay.
Sincerely
The Queen'.
Oh, and there's also the fireworks show and the Mardi Gras parade...all happening this weekend and the next. I am still dying to see a platypus. That's right. Not a koala or a kangaroo. I want to see a platypus. I'm crazy like that, bitches.
The most hilarious part for me is a little piece of land somewhere in the area of the Rocks which is technically still pasture land. So you're allowed to graze cattle and sheep there. Well, that's supremely helpful. I should get some classmates shit faced, find them a couple of sheep and set them on pasture land just for fun. I'd love to see the police handle that...
Oh and the beaches are nice. Crazy waves aside, Manly is a fine place to spend a day. Bondi, still have to go. I'm sure it's all good though. Also a must see, Darling Harbour every Saturday night- fireworks and street artists. Good looking street artists. Plus you always have fun drunks about. Not the crazy ones who haunt Kings Cross. The good natured, I love the universe types. I saw a guy dressed up as Green Lantern being spanked out on the Harbour front.
Ok, so maybe some crazy ones...
The markets are all right. Paddington is overrated and exorbitant. Glebe market is a good place to spend a few hours. And a few hundreds. But that's Sydney.
All in all, its a really nice place. If it wasn't so expensive, it would be amazing.
Ah well, can't have it all I suppose.
So here we are, in a rather nice city. Nothing is more than 200 years old. So when they say 'our history' you can practically see Europeans going "Awww, they think they have history. That's so cute!"
So anyway, I have seen the major sites- The Sydney Fish Market (its hilarious that their speciality is chocolate coated strawberries), the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House, Darling Harbour, Kings Cross (grossly overrated, by the way) and a Burger King rip off known as Hungry Jacks. Also Pie Face. Do not miss out on Pie Face in Sydney. Not that you can, its everywhere.
I'm at Glebe- often pegged as an intellectual centre and glamorous suburb. Well, sure I guess. A bit of an exaggeration but there is a lot of good food, cheap at that. I also found an unpublished first draft lying about. So yeah, Glebe is one of my favourite places in Sydney. If I come back, I'd stay at Glebe again. Even if it is a fucking 20 minute walk from everything fun.
I also heard about the letter that Queen Elizabeth wrote to the Australian Public which will be opened and read out in 2085. Makes you wonder what she wanted to tell them that had to wait till she was dead and gone.
'Dear Australia,
Just FYI - you're sitting on a mine field. Oh and we sold you off to Canada.
Hope that's okay.
Sincerely
The Queen'.
Oh, and there's also the fireworks show and the Mardi Gras parade...all happening this weekend and the next. I am still dying to see a platypus. That's right. Not a koala or a kangaroo. I want to see a platypus. I'm crazy like that, bitches.
The most hilarious part for me is a little piece of land somewhere in the area of the Rocks which is technically still pasture land. So you're allowed to graze cattle and sheep there. Well, that's supremely helpful. I should get some classmates shit faced, find them a couple of sheep and set them on pasture land just for fun. I'd love to see the police handle that...
Oh and the beaches are nice. Crazy waves aside, Manly is a fine place to spend a day. Bondi, still have to go. I'm sure it's all good though. Also a must see, Darling Harbour every Saturday night- fireworks and street artists. Good looking street artists. Plus you always have fun drunks about. Not the crazy ones who haunt Kings Cross. The good natured, I love the universe types. I saw a guy dressed up as Green Lantern being spanked out on the Harbour front.
Ok, so maybe some crazy ones...
The markets are all right. Paddington is overrated and exorbitant. Glebe market is a good place to spend a few hours. And a few hundreds. But that's Sydney.
All in all, its a really nice place. If it wasn't so expensive, it would be amazing.
Ah well, can't have it all I suppose.