Sydney

Our Australian adventure has begun! An early flight took us directly to Sydney where we picked up a SIM card for our phone and learned how to use the transit as we would be staying for 5 days. We had booked a shared AIR B&B in Sydney in hopes that we might get to know some locals. The one big issue we have with AIR B&B is sometimes you are not able to drop off your bags on arrival and have to wait until the check-in time. This was one of those situations and we ended having to kill 3 hours in a nearby park waiting to check-in. Our luggage was just a bit too heavy to lug around. In the end, our host had just left us a key so we could have just dropped off our stuff which was annoying.

We were staying in a suburb call Bondi Beach (pronounced “Bon-die” by the locals) in a small 4 bedroom bungalow. Finally relieved of our bags, we were able to walk down to the beach and explore the area. We really loved the feel of Bondi. It has a hipster/surfer feel with lots of cute shops and bars. The beach is beautiful and there are always surfers in the water. This is a very sought after location to live. One of our plans for Sydney was to take some surf lessons. As we wandered the waterfront strip we found a surf school and signed up for some lessons. The weather was still kind of cool, in the high teens, so we would have to wear wetsuits. After strolling the waterfront we headed to Bondi Junction to find an Aldi grocery store to pick up food for the week. Some tasty hamburgers would be our first treat.

Our AIR B&B host was actually out of the country but we met one of the 3 roommates on return. He was a nice guy but I think we were getting in his way a first date he was having as we kept bothering him with questions about where things were in the house.もっと詳しく