Melbourne to Sydney - 30th December 25

It was a very early start today with the alarm going off at 3:45! (It felt especially early after our late night!)

Once ready we checked out and walked the short distance to the airport where we checked our bags in and waited for the flight.

After a slight delay we arrived in Sydney at around 8:00 a.m. And caught the metro and then a tram to where our hotel is in North Sydney. My first experience of going over the harbour bridge, this time on a train.

Our room wasn't ready to check into and so we left our bags and went for a walk. The plan was to walk across the harbour bridge and to Circular Quay. The views from the bridge were fantastic, overlooking the Sydney Opera House. Once we arrived at Circular Quay we stopped for a quick snack and then walked onto the opera house. All around there were preparations being made ready for the New Year's Eve celebrations the following day.

We walked on to the Opera House and took plenty of pics and then back to Circular Quay to meet Beth. Once we'd met we didn't the next couple of hours walking along the front, passed the Opera House again and into the botanic gardens. Again preparations were in full swing as it's one of the places that you can watch the NYE fireworks.

We carried on to the area around Mrs Macquarie's Chair to reccy where we might want to be the following day. Having decided on a general area we walked back to Circular Quay, stopping off for a drink to wait for our 2pm boat ride around the harbour.

At just after 2, we boarded the boat and settled in for an hour or so's tour of the harbour area, with a drink and snacks included. Once we'd finished the trip we said goodbye to Beth and we walked back over the bridge to check in to our hotel.

After a shower and change we picked up some snacks for the following day and then headed back to the CBD for a meal that we had booked in the Westfield tower, an iconic tower that gives the highest views in Sydney at over 1,000 feet. The restaurant we went to, Infinity, is one of a number in the tower and had a revolving restaurant that does a complete rotation in about 70 minutes.
We ate our delicious meal overlooking the city as the sun set. The food was lovely and the service attentive, even if we weren't quite sure about the description of the food. We finished and by now it was just after 9pm and having had a long day we caught an Uber back to the hotel for an early night.Leggi altro