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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Australian Tour |
I managed to get the 'net working while on holiday, so here I am with a little entry.
The last few days have been amazing. I'd only ever travelled a short distance past the Victorian border, so it was fantastic to be able to travel much further north and see the many sights along the way.
On Saturday night I spent the evening in Canberra (Australia's capital city). It's very much smaller than Melbourne, but it's really very beautiful. I also spent the next day exploring the Houses of Parliament and even for young people who aren't into politics at all, I think it's pretty impressive. Unfortunately I didn't bring a cable to connect the camera to this computer, so I am unable to show you any Canberra photos. However, I can show you some photos from Sydney.
Sydney was the next leg of the journey; I spent a night there on Sunday. I'd heard a lot about it from different people. My dad hated Sydney due to the strange roadways (roads in Sydney change names part way through, rather than being a single road name all the way to the end like in Melbourne). But going there for myself, I was able to really form my own opinion. And I have to say, I think I'm in love. Being in Sydney is surreal - it's truly a gorgeous city. Everything about it is very clean and tidy and the harbour is quite possibly the most amazing sight I've ever laid eyes upon. Even photos do not really do it justice. Being there for yourself is like being inside some incredible painting.
I've taken the time to upload a few shots to imageshack (they are a bit smaller so that they are easier to view). These shots were put from an SD card to a CD, so I'm able to share 'em with you.
These shots are from the ferries that go from port to port. I found it odd to be using a ferry like a taxi, since that doesn't really happen in Melbourne. In the third picture, you can see some people walking up the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which gives you an impression of how large it actually is. I even have a couple of videos from my camera, which I may upload to show you.
After Sydney, we went up to Queensland. I am now Currumbin, which is between Coolangatta and Surfer's Paradise. Coolangatta is a charming place (and standing at the end of its airport runway is a scary experience - I have a video of a 737 passing only metres over my head, which I will show you soon) and Surfer's Paradise is very pretty, albeit very much like an Australian version of Miami. It's very movie-like and plasticky, but it's in an amazing spot (the Gold Coast is really breath taking). Hopefully I can get some nice images of that to put up here as well.
Anyway, I'll end it here and I will write another post at some point soon. Hopefully I can share some more images/video with you as well.
Sara: I'm glad you feel that way. We really try to be ethical and to go out of our way to do the right thing by visitors. So I'm happy that it's appreciated. ~_^
flirtinangel08: I had a good Halloween, although there were no parties unfortunately. Halloween isn't really celebrated in Australia, although usually people use it as an excuse to have some kind of dress-up party. But yeah, none of my friends were doing that this year.
SunfallE: Yeah, I think that the key is just to keep everyone happy and fulfilled. As I said before, it's not enough just to have someone enjoying a service - you have to try to exceed their expectations. I'm sure we don't always do that, but we certainly try. ^_^
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