So here i am, Australia at last. The hostel I'm in is pretty cool to be honest, the place is clean and the people seem like a laugh. In my room I have 2 Irish lads Al and Hogy, Christina and Chris who are from Canada, not together and of course a German by the name of Julius.
Kings Cross is the area of Sydney I'm staying in and to be honest it's so like London. Bars, clubs, strip clubs, sluts, homeless people and all the other shit that comes along with it. But on the other hand it's close to everything I need.
On my first day I thought I'd go for a walk on my own down to the opera house and botanic gardens.
The gardens, well they were ok I suppose but to me it was just plants and tress. As for the opera house I was rather disappointed. There was building going on and timber fences up all at the front at the bottom of the stairs. I could still see the whole house but just ruined it a bit is all. Also its not as big as it looks, I'm not saying it's house size but I was just expecting it to be bloody huge.
Back to the hostel I go. It's like a 20 min walk away so not bad at all. That night of course first night in Aus meant party time. Went out for a meal with a few people from the hostel and then hit a pub and a club. Julius was there and a few more germans also met a girl called Nicole, she's from London. Anyway we all had a good night got to bed at like 4 or 5. Well I fell asleep in the tv room. Just what I needed after a 24 hour flight.
So the next day I arranged to meet Nicole and we were gonna go for a wander. I thought we said 11 but turns out we changed it to 12. I couldn't find her in the morning so thought fuck this I'm off. I went for a walk in to main town Sydney, well that was the plan. I got lost and saw a sign for the botanic gardens so i headed back there. While walking through I bumped in to Nicole so off we went. This girl is a proper tourist, the book the map the lot. I just followed along with my hangover, done the opera house again and then walked to Sydney harbor bridge. The whole time we were walking I was thinking "this is hot out here" turns out it was. I was sun burnt to fuck. Anyway the tourist had more places for us to go. We went to china town, hyde park and darling harbor before walking home. Got back about 8ish I think. Then it was out again, not a late one this time I was home by 12 I think.
The next day me Nicole and Chris the Canadian from my room went over to Manly for the day. It's like 30 mins by ferry. Still in Sydney just the other side of the harbour and ferry is the best way to get there. So we got there and we decide to go for a walk. We get lost. Nicole has her map out and me and Chris are just walking and laughing as Manly is not that big and had the ocean at 3 sides. We do find an awesome beach on our travels called Collins beach.
We got back to the main strip in the end and Nicole went to the beach for a little tanning session, me and Chris went for a few beers. Found a cool little Spanish bar over looking the beach so we set up camp there. Dude behind the bar was Kieran and was English so we had a laugh in there. Nicole came and met us after a while and said we needed to get back for the hostel bbq. I decided I loved Manly and wanted to spend the weekend there so I found a hostel on the way back and booked in.
Ferry back and to the bbq with everyone, few beers and many laughs. Can't remember clubbing, though that doesn't mean we didn't go.