It’s cold and rainy today (about 20 C) and it’s really expensive. Surprisingly so, considering.
It looks almost like the US, but the houses are diff. They’re these funny little cracker boxes with iron gratings on the front. Anyone know why they all look so much alike in so many areas of Sydney? When were they built?
The beaches are great (when the sun’s out and it’s not too cold and windy) The sand on Bondi Beach stung my skin, and I got sunburnt on the ferry to Manly (which is very touristy now, btw, and crowded).
Haven’t done much except pubbing and eating and walking, really.
Went to one movie and couldn’t believe it cost NT 375!!! Geez.
Good film though, “Love Actually”, and it was good to watch it with an English speaking audience as they laughed in the right places.
The food is good here (varied and international cuisines abound) and there are as many pubs (hotels) per capita as 7-11s in Taipei!
I’m sitting here in an internet cafe in King’s Cross and it’s pissing rain outside.
Going to a wildlife park Sunday, Featherdale, so I can hold koalas and feed kangaroos, and then on to Blue Mtns. Going to see jazz tonight as part of the Sydney festival thing.
Strange to be speaking English to people and reading big fat newspapers every day with Aussie news in them. I’ve seen some of the tv series “Kath and Kim” that my friends rented from DVD shop. Hilarious~will be bringing a few seasons back with me. It’s like an Aussie “Ab Fab” but more common characters.
I mean reeeeeeeeeeeeeallly common!
Sydney-siders seem to be rather bog-standard all in all. Not too many weirdos, and haven’t met HGC’s Auntie Jane yet as Glebe may not happen. There’s this funny woman on Victoria St with pink pin curls, but that’s about it. Strangest people you see here are the heavy girls wearing hipsters with their big guts hanging over them and their ass cracks on display. But they’re not strange, just trying to be trendy. THat look just doesn’t cut it for many western chicks. I mean if you’re bigger than a size 2, just give it up, girls. Don’t embarrass yourselves…
Guess how much cigarettes cost here? You’d be shocked. I’ll guanxi the first non-Aussie who can guess in Taiwan dollars.
And, why oh why, is it so expensive everywhere? Even the suburbs? I just don’t get that at all. I mean, Sydney is no New York or Hong Kong or London, it’s more like a small town bilking the public with exorbitant prices.
However, those are my observations and it’s still nice here, and I don’t miss Taipei!
For other thread:
Fox, you should fly to San Francisco on United from TPE if possible.
You could then take a red-eye (overnight flight of six hours) to NYC. Don’t go to LA, yuk, phooey, awful!
SF is chabuduo Sydney, but prettier and lots more weirdos than here. Don’t miss it if you go that far. But then there are loads of loonies in NYC, so whatever…
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Ok, it’s stopped pissing, I’m off.
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