We were picked up from our hotel at 09:00 for our flight to Sydney and were very quickly at the airport which is only 7km from central Adelaide. A slightly delay to the plane arriving meant that we were around 40 minutes late in taking off. We spend the time in the VA Australia business class lounge which was the scruffiest I have encountered.
The flight was uneventful; we landed in Sydney only about 30 mins late and quickly located our driver who was taking us to the Sir Stamford Hotel which is very close to Circular Quay the centre of Sydney life. The hotel is slightly old fashioned but really very nice and our room is great and absolutely huge with a Juliette balcony overlooking the Botanic Gardens.
Off we went for a walk along Circular Quay, round by the Opera House and then through the Botanic Gardens. As you can see there was monstrous cruise ship berthed at Circular Quay dwarfing all of Sydney's famous sites.
The Botanic Gardens are not in the LLW's good books as they are redoing her favourite Lotus Flower garden and currently it is a shadow of its former self. We exited the gardens at Woolloomooloo Gate and descended to the jetty where there are numerous restaurants, all of which were buzzing with Christmas party goers. Legs were becoming tired now and we decided to catch a bus to Elizabeth Bay where we remember there being a very nice cafe on the jetty. At the bus stop to we talked to a very pleasant lady, probably of aboriginal heritage, who clearly loved living in Sydney and was happy to share her thoughts about the city and her family that live there.
Sadly the eagerly anticipated cafe no longer seemed to exist at Elizabeth Bay so we decided to catch the bus back to Circular Quay. Firstly we needed to buy an Opal card which is used by all the transport systems in Sydney and using Mr Google, Ray quickly located a Deli which sold these cards.
Soon we were back in Circular Quay and located a nice restaurant to have dinner.
The flight was uneventful; we landed in Sydney only about 30 mins late and quickly located our driver who was taking us to the Sir Stamford Hotel which is very close to Circular Quay the centre of Sydney life. The hotel is slightly old fashioned but really very nice and our room is great and absolutely huge with a Juliette balcony overlooking the Botanic Gardens.
Off we went for a walk along Circular Quay, round by the Opera House and then through the Botanic Gardens. As you can see there was monstrous cruise ship berthed at Circular Quay dwarfing all of Sydney's famous sites.
The Botanic Gardens are not in the LLW's good books as they are redoing her favourite Lotus Flower garden and currently it is a shadow of its former self. We exited the gardens at Woolloomooloo Gate and descended to the jetty where there are numerous restaurants, all of which were buzzing with Christmas party goers. Legs were becoming tired now and we decided to catch a bus to Elizabeth Bay where we remember there being a very nice cafe on the jetty. At the bus stop to we talked to a very pleasant lady, probably of aboriginal heritage, who clearly loved living in Sydney and was happy to share her thoughts about the city and her family that live there.
Sadly the eagerly anticipated cafe no longer seemed to exist at Elizabeth Bay so we decided to catch the bus back to Circular Quay. Firstly we needed to buy an Opal card which is used by all the transport systems in Sydney and using Mr Google, Ray quickly located a Deli which sold these cards.
Soon we were back in Circular Quay and located a nice restaurant to have dinner.
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