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Hostel: Chilis must be red! and hot! NOT blue! Can't recommend the chili blue backpacker hostel 'cause it has nothing on additional space or rooms or is pretty clean...was ok for spending about 6 hours a night there, but not more. Doesn't look nice, doesn't smell nice and the online booking forms don't work...and Kings Cross at night...forget sleeping (but that was something i knew before - so no worries!).

People: Was really cool meeting all of them (of course I never would say anything different here in the net ^^). But was really great fun and I really enjoyed it. Next time, Brisbane ;-)

Events: Easter Show (see blog entry), Aquarium + Wildlife (see also blog), Ferry (again), Monorail (nice but that's it) but with cool people, everything's funny, isn't it? ;-)

Pics: Just check out Georg's and Susanne's Blogs, there you can find about 45,320 pics, I guess ;-)

That's it for now....see ya later :)






btw: I just moved to Bondi...:-)

ferrytale

On Sunday my two fellow students made their way to the blue mountains while I started the day pretty relaxed. Slept until 10 and then got to woolworths, bought some croissants, juice and had breakfast at the Botanic Garden with view at the opera. :-) After that I saw some street performers at circular quay (and again bruce who's still great) and then I met again with the 3 girls and we did a short ferry cruise. Was interesting to see how fast those ferries get and that they are a normal part of the sydney transport system....then...the girls went shopping again and in the evening I met with George and Susanne after they returned from the mountains and we had a pretty interesting chinese dinner...'cause when we ordered, Georg and Susanne ordered the same chicken menu and the waitress tried to convince them to order something different so that everyone of us has something different because we coul taste from each others menu...i guess she tried really hard for 5 minutes to convince the two, but had no chance...typical german tourists! (sorry folks ;-) )
Afterwards we had a walk through the night across darling harbour where we saw the bounty and other cool ships and had a glance at star city, took approx. 5,000 pics of the harbour skyline ;-) and then went home to bed....completely tired ;-)

Wild Wild uhm Wild =)

On Saturday we did the wildlife + aquarium tour. So we've been to the Sydney Wildlife World first, where you could see a lot of wallabies and other typical australian animals...was pretty nice, but not thaaaaat exciting. Guess the most exciting part was the beginning when we bought our tickets. 3 People, 3 different ideas, 3 different tickets and a very very confused girl at the ticket counter ;-) After that we went to the aquarium. Was pretty nice actually, but not that exciting like the other aquariums I've been so far. But really ok.Then, while Susanne and Georg did the Sydneytower, I met the three shopping girls (steffi, chrissi, tine (the last two just came back the day before from their aussie-journey) at Market City. Had a nice chat with them and when they continued shopping, I met with Georg and Susanne again....at the Löwenbräu Keller. Maaaaaaan. I even don't like the Oktoberfest at home and they "forced" me to enter this strange location. Aussies, Amis, Chinese and people from all over the world singin german folksongs like "herzilein". Hell on Earth ;-) But my 2 fellowstudents enjoyed it pretty much and since I only had to spent 15 minutes in there, it was pretty much ok. Afterwards we 3 met with Steffi and Tine and went to a pub in the rocks, which closed at 12pm (still strange that pubs close that early).
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Royal Grand Easter Joke

Maaaaaaan....have been to the Royal Grand Easter Show...31 Bucks...and it was...hm...interesting ;-) It's been a kind of farmer-show in the end. If I counted right, there have been 3 cool tents with music and that stuff and the rest has been cows, pigs, goats...etc...and that was the ROYAL GRAND EASTER SHOW. Some horse-shows have been there too, sorry, didn't want to forget that ;) But when something is published in that way, I really expected more...but was pretty cool to see the olympic park. and, outside of the show area, there was a pretty cool live band. so in the end, it was nice to be there, but the show wasn't something I have to see again when I'm coming back here ;-)

move yeah!

news news news ;-)

since sophie really pissed me off this morning, I decided to make true what I've been thinking about the last days...tomorrow morning I'll move to a hostel for 3 nights. victoria street, kings cross, paaaaaaarty ;-) Thought when you're in sydney for a long time, you should at least have stayed for some days at Kings Cross ;-)

dididadada

(for the explanation of this heading please enter those words in any search engine or youtube and listen to the song ;) )

Yesterday evening, I had a little soccer derby ;) Just wanted to go from Darling Harbour to Town Hall station. so I thought I cross the Pyrmont bridge and walk straight to Town Hall. But then the Bridge began to move it's middle-part. So the people on the left and the right end had to wait till the bridge moved to it's ending position...while waiting I saw some english guys there. They were playing soccer...kickin the ball from one to another. Then, while one was running with the ball and passing me, I just put my foot out and "stole" the ball and kicked it to the next of these guys. Then they let me play a little with them. Was pretty funny...but then, they asked where I'm from. And after telling them that I'm German they just answered something like "ooooh noooo" :D Then I suggested to make a little penalty shootout ^^ but they didn't want to ;-)But had a lot of fun till the bridge opened the gates again. Even with english guys ;-)

The other day, I was just walking around and an Aussie guy asked me where I'm from. After saying "germany" He just started to complain about the italians who kicked "us" (aussies and germans) out of the world cup last year and as some guy in an italian shirt was passing by, we booed him off. :D I like those aussies, by the way ;)