Australia Day 3 – Sydney City Tour

Today we got up relatively early as we planned to go on a City bus tour. We started from the main train station. It was good in that it gave us some of the history of the various areas and places that was really good. Queen Victoria Building

One of our main aims was to go to Bondi to have a look at the famous Bondi Beach. Unfortunately it was really windy which made going to the beach a little uncomfortable and we didn’t go for a swim. We walked around and Carla bought a dress from one of the shops along the waterfront.

After Bondi we got back on the bus and as we went round a corner the wind suddenly came up and I donated a cap to someone in Bondi.

W caught the bus back to the Opera house and then went for lunch overlooking the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge.
Carla and Mom at lunch at Circular Quay
My mother was leaving and flying back to Noosa, so we went back to the hotel, collected the bags and said our goodbyes.

I had been having a great deal of problems trying to access the internet and my e-mail, but finally managed to from the hotel across the road.

Carla and I then went out again for dinner at Darling Harbour. After walking around and checking out all the restaurants we finally decided on one and settled down with some nice wine and a good meal looking over the harbour.

We crashed fairly early after dinner and thought that our evening was over, but at 00:30 the fire alarm went off in the hotel. I thought “what did I do…” as I had woken up a few second before and just turned over in the bed when the alarm suddenly went off. Carla also thought “what has he done now…”

We had the pleasure of evacuating the hotel and meeting the Sydney Fire department. After determining that it was a false alarm we were allowed to go back in and to bed. At 03.30 it went off again, this time we took our time and ended up ignoring the alarm, except for just checking the corridors and having someone tell us that it was another false alarm.
The Sydney Fire Brigade