Happy New Year in Sydney - Big Holidays
Punctually for New Year's Eve we arrived in the afternoon of December 31 in Bass Hill, a suburb 22 km of Sydney, on a caravan park. With a train (and dressed in skirt with still more than 30°C) we proceeded to the city as a huge amount of people was expected for the New Year's celebrations. And indeed, arriving at Circular Quay we already saw all those who planned to follow one of the world's most spectacular fireworks.
We found our seats for the following 6 hours in the middle of the crowd of thousands of others in the Royal Botanic Gardens next to the Sydney Opera House. As you can see with great view of the Harbour Bridge :-)
The next day, Max and me, we wanted to see as much as possible from that big city, so we two alone started early after breakfast towards the city. Our problem: the temperatures (as a picture taken in the shadow shows)! We were "dying"!!!
The city was just empty, nearly noone in the streets (public holiday and then the temperatures)... Not even after 30 min. in the city, I urgently tried to find something to cover my head as I felt how the heat was making me a bit "dizzy" - and I found an open souvenir shop to buy one of those stupid tourist caps with a kangaroo on it...
It was so hot and to find something refreshing was much more difficult: open bars to get something cold to drink were quite rare, any other places to cool down for 2 seconds nearly impossible to find...
Desperate as we were, Max and me just jumped with our ticket on the next public transport ferry in whatever direction only in hope that it was air conditioned or that some airstream could refresh us a bit... in vain!!! We then simply turned around with the next ferry, went the whole way back to the city and took another ferry - to Manly Beach, one of Sydney's most famous ones next to Bondi Beach.
In the end, we had a nice swim in the sea but haven't done what we actually wanted: to explore the city.
That's what we then did the next day, January 2, with the city bus once around Sydney:
Sydney Aquarium (a nice shark & a huge ray)
We found our seats for the following 6 hours in the middle of the crowd of thousands of others in the Royal Botanic Gardens next to the Sydney Opera House. As you can see with great view of the Harbour Bridge :-)The heart in the middle got one outer ring more every hour that midnight approached.
And what we got to see exactly when the heart was full at 12 am was just amazing! Again, the pictures absolutely can't get that atmosphere across. But just two of them (though a bit unsharp) to try to get you an impression of it:
And what we got to see exactly when the heart was full at 12 am was just amazing! Again, the pictures absolutely can't get that atmosphere across. But just two of them (though a bit unsharp) to try to get you an impression of it: Well, so "HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!"
That was really a great evening!
The next day, Max and me, we wanted to see as much as possible from that big city, so we two alone started early after breakfast towards the city. Our problem: the temperatures (as a picture taken in the shadow shows)! We were "dying"!!!The city was just empty, nearly noone in the streets (public holiday and then the temperatures)... Not even after 30 min. in the city, I urgently tried to find something to cover my head as I felt how the heat was making me a bit "dizzy" - and I found an open souvenir shop to buy one of those stupid tourist caps with a kangaroo on it...
It was so hot and to find something refreshing was much more difficult: open bars to get something cold to drink were quite rare, any other places to cool down for 2 seconds nearly impossible to find...
Desperate as we were, Max and me just jumped with our ticket on the next public transport ferry in whatever direction only in hope that it was air conditioned or that some airstream could refresh us a bit... in vain!!! We then simply turned around with the next ferry, went the whole way back to the city and took another ferry - to Manly Beach, one of Sydney's most famous ones next to Bondi Beach.
In the end, we had a nice swim in the sea but haven't done what we actually wanted: to explore the city.That's what we then did the next day, January 2, with the city bus once around Sydney:
Art Gallery NSW
Hard Rock Café Sydney
Queen Victoria Building
just a shopping mall
just somewhere
some arcades
What does it look like???
Darling Harbour
Sydney Aquarium (a nice shark & a huge ray)Back there...
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