Sydney

The world famous city is a modern, vibrant city with a lot of different ethnicities which form the economic capitol of Australia. As planed months in advance I met Carolin from Swizterland near the space needle of Sydney. We then took a walk around the city and marveled at the famous harbour bridge and the opera house. But there is much more to see next to the postcard sights. The Royal Botanic Garden with the bats shitting down, Kings Cross, Aborigines who play didgeridoo with house music in the background,the harbor and the skyscrapers it self. We walked for hours and exhausted found sanity in the free beer coupons provided by the hostel, which by the way has room for 470 people (the largest so far). In the evening we checked out China Town. The next day we spent at Bondi Beach, but the muscle packed surfer stereotypes didn't impress Carolin. She was all the time talking about the boys from Melbourne.
Then we met Nick and Suzy whom I know from a boattrip in the Amazon after spending the afternoon at Manly Beach. They live at Curl Curl Beach, which is just slightly north of the city. Nick took as out the first night to his cricket club house, which was about beer and getting to know the locals and there still mysthic entusiasm for cricket. Afterward we went to Manly Beach to some clubs - which brought even more beer to our thirsty stomach's. The following day the early birds woke me up to get to the Blue Mountains southwest of Sydney. The weather was not to good, but we tried. On the highway we almost got pulled over by police for speeding, but we hided in a side street for a few minutes after rushing off the highway. In the Blue Mountains the rain was still pretty bad, it was foggy and a bit cold, but we still saw the major attractions even though the fog was hiding the whole overlook. I wisely pointed out, that it is like going to a strip club but you never see the jewelry, because she is teasing you (That doesn't mean I have been to a strip club). On the way back we took a look at the Sydney Olympics area which is huge. In the evening we had a barby (BBQ) at Nick and Suzys place with Kangaroo.
In the morning we wanted to rent a car, but they were sold out, broken down or too expensive. So we bought a hopp-on hopp-off busticket up to Brisbane.