Monday, March 11, 2013

Australia visit - Sydney

My big holiday of all time was to visit Australia this year.   It was only a few weeks after Malaysia.

The flight out was overnight leaving Heathrow at 9:30 pm on an A380.  It was a long flight to Singapore, but being able to sleep was a benefit.  March 2013 was the last month that Qantas were doing this route, after that it would be a stop over in Dubai - so it felt like the end of a long haul era.

Landing in Singapore, with just a one hour stop over before rejoining for another 8 hours on top of the 12 already flown.  Landing in Sydney on Monday 07:30 am.  It took a while to get through immigration, and out to a taxi to the hotel at Surry Hills arriving at around 11 am.

We stayed at a boutique hotel, and the first day was taken with catching up on some sleep - only venturing out in the evening to get some food.

Tuesday:

Visited the Opera house for a tour and walked around the Circular Quay

Wednesday:

Visited Manly and walked along the beaches.

Thursday:

China town, Natural history museum

Friday:

Sea life, and Australia museum

Saturday

Shopping and walked through the Quay area

Sunday

Saturday, March 9, 2013

World Extents (3)

My Australia trip ran from 9 to 27 March, and once again my world extents were drastically extended.  My new list reads:


  1. North - Northampton UK
  2. East -Brisbane Australia
  3. South - Sydney Australia
  4. West - St Austell UK