Welcome to Sydney

We arrived in Sydney at 4:30pm and had to change our watches as Adelaide is 30mins behind which just confused me. We collected our bags and headed to the train station, by this time it was gone 5pm on a Monday and everyone in Sydney catches the train home. It was a bit of a struggle with our huge bags on a packed train. After 40 minutes on the train we arrived at the suburb of Rhodes where we would be staying.



We had arranged to stay in Frank and Marions’ apartment, the couple we had been house sharing with in Brisbane. The apartment was great, with fantastic views over the Olympic Village and the Parramatta river. We dropped our bags off and went to explore the local area; we found the local shopping centre which was only 5 minutes from the apartment.
A couple of days later Adam and I headed towards the CBD. It had been 4 years since we had last been there and it looked pretty much the same. We had spoken to our travelling friend Lisa and found that she was going to be in Sydney at the same time as us, we arranged to meet up at Circular Quay. Lisa had been in Melbourne for a few months and had met up with some other girls, Sally and Roisin, we all met up and spent the day wondering around the CBD and Darling harbour.



Adam had spoken with the people he had been worked for in Brisbane, they were trying to sort out a job for him in their Sydney office, but while we waited for an answer, we decided to visit some of the local attractions. We also met up with Anastasia who we had made friends with on the Alice to Adelaide trip, she was due to leave Sydney to go back home to Germany so before she left we invited her over for dinner and also went shopping with her around the CBD and Paddy’s Market.



We went to go and visit the Olympic Village on another day out. We decided to walk there as it was a nice day and most of the walk was next to the river, it took us about 40 minutes. When we arrived we picked up some leaflets from the information centre and were very tempted to hire Segways, but they were a little expensive and so just decided to have a wander round. It was a very large complex and the main ANZ stadium was huge.