Sydney
Sydney has always been one fo my favorite cites
in the world. Since I arrived here last year I was amazed by its diverse,
modern, clean, and friendly feel.
Sydney has always been one fo my favorite cites
in the world. Since I arrived here last year I was amazed by its diverse,
modern, clean, and friendly feel. Today I hoped to give myself a tour of my
favorite places from last year.
I have to back up a few months to when I was first thinking about coming to Australia. Back then the idea of being away from the states for more than 30 days seemed unbelievable. My aspiration at that time was to spend about a month traveling around Australia taking pictures. One of the places I looked for information and input was a web site called photo.net. To make a long story short I met photographer based two hours out of Sydney who was thinking about starting a photo and hiking tour company in the Blue Mountains. After a few discussions on where I should get my film, and where I should travel while in the country, I suggested that I be his first customer for a photo tour of the blue mountains. Simon agreed to come down to Sydney the day before the trek and show me the places where I should buy film and get it developed.
Well I talked to Simon early this morning and he said that he would come down to Sydney as planned. He did however live quite a ways a away so it was going to take some time for him to get to me. I got a knock on the door, the housekeep wanted to move me back to the original room that I was meant to stay in. That wasn't a problem it was just smaller. I called the internet company which I booked the room through and shortened my stay by a day. I decided that due to my 8am flight the day after tomorrow, that I would want to stay out by the airport anyway. I went down to the lobby and grabbed breakfast at the cafe. The little restaurant attached to the cafe was not very representative of the hotel. The cafe was clean, the service, was good, and it seemed to be a pretty popular place with the locals. Two girls who from what I could guess where about 19 were having a conversation next to me. The kept talking about how hot the other one looked the night before, and which boy was cute, and so on. At one point one of the girls asked about what kinda guy she though she would marry, the other girl responded that she wasn't going to worry about that until she was old, like 27. Thanks!!!
After a couple hows Simon showed up and we set out on the town. Simon was a great guy, who had a very similar history to me in regards to relationships so we swapped stories on that subject. He was the kinda guy that really enjoyed what he was doing. At the middle of next month he was going to hike the mountains of Spain on a photographic trek.
Simon took me to one photo store where I was able to drop my film off for development. From there we stopped at another photography store where Simon had to pick up some film. Lunch was next on the agenda, where Simon and I begin in no rush just chatted for about an hour. We walk across downtown Sydney to the art museum where is girlfriend picked us up. Talking to Simon I realized just how much more worldly people in this part of the world are. Not everyone was as knowledgeable as Simon, but over the course of my trip I have noticed that people are definitely more aware of the world around them more than Americans.
Simon dropped me off somewhere in the middle of town where I was in-search of a place to cash a few travelers checks, and log onto the internet. What I ended up doing was walking down to the Rocks (an area of Sydney which overlooks the Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge). From there I found a bar that had wireless internet access (much to their surprise) and updated the website. I decided I would ride the subway back to the area I was staying. I seemed to remember that my hotel was near central station so I headed for that stop. Sure enough I was right around the corner from it.
(it was too dark for my little camera)
I got back to the hotel where Simon later caught up with me on the phone and gave me directions on how to get to the Blue Mountains for our photo-trek the next day. I packed and headed to bed.
I have to back up a few months to when I was first thinking about coming to Australia. Back then the idea of being away from the states for more than 30 days seemed unbelievable. My aspiration at that time was to spend about a month traveling around Australia taking pictures. One of the places I looked for information and input was a web site called photo.net. To make a long story short I met photographer based two hours out of Sydney who was thinking about starting a photo and hiking tour company in the Blue Mountains. After a few discussions on where I should get my film, and where I should travel while in the country, I suggested that I be his first customer for a photo tour of the blue mountains. Simon agreed to come down to Sydney the day before the trek and show me the places where I should buy film and get it developed.
Well I talked to Simon early this morning and he said that he would come down to Sydney as planned. He did however live quite a ways a away so it was going to take some time for him to get to me. I got a knock on the door, the housekeep wanted to move me back to the original room that I was meant to stay in. That wasn't a problem it was just smaller. I called the internet company which I booked the room through and shortened my stay by a day. I decided that due to my 8am flight the day after tomorrow, that I would want to stay out by the airport anyway. I went down to the lobby and grabbed breakfast at the cafe. The little restaurant attached to the cafe was not very representative of the hotel. The cafe was clean, the service, was good, and it seemed to be a pretty popular place with the locals. Two girls who from what I could guess where about 19 were having a conversation next to me. The kept talking about how hot the other one looked the night before, and which boy was cute, and so on. At one point one of the girls asked about what kinda guy she though she would marry, the other girl responded that she wasn't going to worry about that until she was old, like 27. Thanks!!!
After a couple hows Simon showed up and we set out on the town. Simon was a great guy, who had a very similar history to me in regards to relationships so we swapped stories on that subject. He was the kinda guy that really enjoyed what he was doing. At the middle of next month he was going to hike the mountains of Spain on a photographic trek.
Simon took me to one photo store where I was able to drop my film off for development. From there we stopped at another photography store where Simon had to pick up some film. Lunch was next on the agenda, where Simon and I begin in no rush just chatted for about an hour. We walk across downtown Sydney to the art museum where is girlfriend picked us up. Talking to Simon I realized just how much more worldly people in this part of the world are. Not everyone was as knowledgeable as Simon, but over the course of my trip I have noticed that people are definitely more aware of the world around them more than Americans.
Simon dropped me off somewhere in the middle of town where I was in-search of a place to cash a few travelers checks, and log onto the internet. What I ended up doing was walking down to the Rocks (an area of Sydney which overlooks the Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge). From there I found a bar that had wireless internet access (much to their surprise) and updated the website. I decided I would ride the subway back to the area I was staying. I seemed to remember that my hotel was near central station so I headed for that stop. Sure enough I was right around the corner from it.
(it was too dark for my little camera)
I got back to the hotel where Simon later caught up with me on the phone and gave me directions on how to get to the Blue Mountains for our photo-trek the next day. I packed and headed to bed.
Posted: Tue - August 26, 2003 at 12:33 AM
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