It has been like visiting an old friend, our unexpected sojourn in Sydney. We've loved it, it has to be one of our favourite cities in the world. We have been so lucky with this lovely apartment, perfectly positioned to watch traffic across the bay, under the harbour bridge.
We've been busy, as usual. We've used the ferry to Circular Quay and on from there. On Wednesday we took a longer ferry trip to beautiful Manly, where we did our Christmas shopping in 2011. The weather was beautiful and we wandered round the Corso and walked around the bay.
On Thursday we walked around the bay from Circular Quay, past the Opera House and in to the beautiful park. It was about 12.30 pm and the paths were full of people running, presumably in their lunch hours. How fantastic is that, leaving work for an hour and having the time to go for a run before lunch and back to work. It's a different world! On the domain there was even a football match taking place in lunch time. We wandered through the old shopping arcades with their stunning architecture, just gorgeous.
It was quite windy and a bit nippy on Friday so we decided to walk around the bays which make up North Sydney and revisit Neutral Bay where we stayed last time we were here. It was all so familiar and made us even more homesick - for an apartment in Sydney!
Today dawned bright and hot so after a quick look round the market at The Rocks we took the bus to Coogee beach which is a lovely little resort on the south side of Sydney, we followed the shore path which took us past Bronte beach,
Clovelly beach
and Tamarama beach
on to Bondi.
Bondi is similar to Santa Monica in California, all old surfing dudes, vegetarian restaurants, yoga studios, beautiful people and, as in Muscle Beach, young bucks strutting their oiled torsos on the gym equipment!! The walk is about 7km and all the bays and beaches are gorgeous. Loads of runners running and walkers walking and big social events in every park. I love how the Aussies use public parks to celebrate birthdays and other celebrations, hanging balloons and bunting around the sun shelters and sharing the communal barbecues, it's all so sociable and friendly. We eventually caught the bus back into the city and wandered back down to the quay.
The sun was just setting as we returned across the harbour, I guess these will be the last photos I take of Sydney! I don't think we'll be back, but never say never!
Sydney - we love you!
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Location:Henry Lawson Avenue, Port Jackson, Sydney, Australia
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