So I landed in Australia at about 6:30am local time, it's now around 10:00am and I've only just got my bearings. The whole 30 hour flight thing didn't seem all that bad, I slept through most of it and discovered that I could watch Indiana Jones 4 and family guy for the rest of it. So, aside from the fact that I didn't eat the airplane food and the only sustenance I had for the entire journey was some noodles that almost made me miss my flight in Hong Kong, it wasn't as bad as it was made out to be.
The worst bit so far had to be actually getting to the hostel. Although they promised free airport pickup, a answer at the reception never came, so I had to get some freaky dual train which even involved (!) getting on to a different line. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a totally indecisive, fearful goon when on my own, so you can easily imagine how this sent me into a constant adrenalin high.
Still, got to my hostel in the end, although it appears to be in a recreation of Soho (It's roughly 5 strip bars, to three standard bars to one cheap as chips hostel), still for AU$20 a night, I don't really know what else I was expecting.
I'm going to go wander around Sydney now, pictures when I get back.
Peace.
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I can imagine you, standing at the train station, just whizzing round the different platforms trying to find the right one:)
How's the place in terms of people - friendly, hostile, reppelent? And that classic British topic, how's the weather?
Thankfully the trains are pretty high tech, they're double decker and they have this neat announcement system coupled with these LED displays that are always telling you the skinny. Plus, the maps of the lines are actually pretty easy to understand.
The people are pretty nice, I'm amazed by the amount of people that're like "British eh?" despite the fact I'm in like, a major backpacker area, still, I met some lovely aussie chavs on the train who took a photo of me in front of the bridge but it didn't come out so good.
The weather, well, it *was* amazing, but now it's raining, =/
No train pirates in australia? Awww and I wished sooo hard! I'm still gonna imagine u as a cabinboy taken in by a rugged set of train pirates taking over the country. It makes me happy ^_^
Glad that u've got ur bearings, sydney looks beeeeaaautiful by the way. And have u had any girls throw themselves at u yet what with that sexy english accent i hear so much about?
Have funs! x
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