SYDNEY

Well.. the bridge is pretty impressive. More than I can say for the nicotine stained, bathroom tile, 70's mistake they call an opera house. That's a little harsh, it's not all that bad, just a little underwhelming.Our experience of Sydney is that of an opera house, a bridge and a botanical gardens clinging desperately to the edge of a very narrow harbour struggling to maintain their footing against the ferocious bustle of the business district which seems to bulge toward the harbour like a loud and looming, faceless black tar. Okay so we don't even scratch the surface of the city but then I think I'd rather keep my nails clean. 

Luckily some friends we made at the Eclipse festival live in a suburb out of the city and offer to put us up for a few days, give us a chance to explore at our own pace. Bondi Beach. Infamous Sydney highlight, I don't have the slightest idea why. We're happy to have a place to regroup, wash and make use of house facilities but the place itself is not your usual beach-side community, I guess it's proximity to the city accounts for that. But it's less quicksilver girl and more quicky-for-some-silver girl, a place with too many muscles and too few brain cells. Still, awesome to see the guys from eclipse and only an hour and half from the Blue Mountains.