The night train was alright, even though I didn’t
get a whole lot of sleep. When I arrived in Sydney, I stayed at the station for
a couple of hours because online, it said that check-in at the hostel starts at
11am and I didn’t want to be there hours before. I made the most of my time,
already booking my train ticket to Canberra for Wednesday and purchasing a
pretty expensive weekly ticket for Sydney’s transport system which allows me to
use all the busses and ferries, and some of the city trains.
I had to take one of those trains from Central
Station to Kings Cross, which turns out to be the red-light district…yay :S And
there are about ten hostels in that street, each and every entrance hidden. I
had to ask twice, before I finally made it to the right one. It has a lot of
stairs, but it’s relatively clean, and there’s free breakfast and wifi
(although it doesn’t work at the moment). The dorms have their own bathrooms,
so you don’t have to share with the whole floor, and their own fridge and
freezer as well. So my first little trip was to the next Coles to get some
apples, lemonade (raspberry flavor, disgusting yet addictive), and my favorite
instant noodles.
Afterwards I went to the city center, got some food
from McDonald’s, and then joined a free 3 hour guided walk around Sydney. The
girl who does these tours was super nice, showed us all the major sights and
added bits of history, but not too much so it didn’t get boring. The weather
was nice and sunny, not hot, but warm enough for hot pants. I’m desperate to
get a tan before I get back to Flaxley.
The city definitely lives up to the hype. It’s quite
hilly, and like Melbourne, there’s a nice mixture of historic buildings and
modern architecture. One of the main streets was used in several Hollywood
movies because apparently it looks very American. Parts of “The Matrix” and the
new Superman were shot here. The highlights of the tour were the Harbour Bridge
and Opera House, of course. At the quay, there were even some guys playing the
didgeridoo, which added some more Australian atmosphere to the whole setting.
We didn’t go inside anything on this tour, but we
saw all the famous sights and at least now I know where to find what, how to
get there, and other fun things you can do when you’re in Sydney. The tour
ended at around 5.30pm, and as it was getting dark and cold, I headed straight
back to the hostel, to take a shower and then go to bed early to get a little
more sleep than last night. The people in my room are mostly German, and two
girls who can’t be older than 19, are a bit catty, so I didn’t let them know
I’m German just yet. And I was told that the French girl, who lives in this
room as well, gets a visitor every night and everyone else in here gets treated
to some live porn. I honestly hope this won’t happen tonight.
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