Boxing Day

Up & exploring Sydney we go to the information centre on cockle bay, just behind the imax theatre. A very helpful guy answers all our questions & gives good advice. We have an idea on where to watch the fireworks from; some 400,000 people come into the city for New Years Eve!! Some of the more popular areas are full by lunchtime & with no ‘pass-out’ or byo alcohol it seems a bit severe! We will look at some quieter areas over the next few days. We buy our bus/train/ferry ticket for the week; $46 for unlimited travel seems good value. We book our bridge walk for New Years day, take a ferry to Mossman bay & explore ‘The Rocks’ area, the young Asian girls are queuing to get into the Gucci shop for the sale. It is sad, sterile & sadly understandable.

The weather is not great, light rain, but we continue to explore. Later we visit the Sydney Opera house & enjoy a guided tour. It is truly an amazing building & an icon, similar to Uluru, but for vastly different reasons. If you simply look at each & see the outside, you may think “so what, it’s just a building/a rock.” Maybe to do that is missing something; the trick might be to look at the inside, to see its soul. That may sound a bit deep & hairy fairy, but each has a story, a history, a reason for existing & both in their own right are truly fascinating.

Sydney is going to be fun & we look forward to doing some of the touristy things & also seeing some of the ‘real’ Sydney.

We wish you all a happy boxing day...

Love & boxing day hugs...
Jeff & Janet