A New Year! - Blogabond

We arrived in Sydney to discover Karl had pulled out all the stops and booked us into the best hostel in the city, complete with roof top pool! On the first day we hit Bondi beach and remarkably managed to find Karl and also randomly bumped into the Irish guys that we met in Cambodia! That night we blagged our way into a posh club in Kings cross and, not content with that, left to go to a more 'studenty' bar and got hammered on Diesel (snakebite and black for you southerners).

The next couple of days were spent wandering around the city in the lead up to the big night...

For New Year's eve Dan and Sean decided to head to the harbour to watch the fireworks. Luckily some friends of ours got there early and bagged us pretty much the best seats in the house - right at the front between the opera house and the bridge. Needless to say the night was amazing. Our only regret was that we didn't sneak in another water bottle filled with vodka - running out of alcohol at 11pm on New Year´s Eve is not ideal!

On New Year's Day, Dan and Sean decided to go for a wander (while Karl was recovering from his night at Bondi Beach) and stumbled across an all day rave with 20,000 people at it! After comtemplating scaling the fence, we opted for the route of trying to buy wristbands from people leaving (either because they´d pulled or they were off their faces). Bearing in mind ´Field Day´is one of the most popular events in Australia with tickets costing $140 and selling out within an hour of going on sale we somehow managed to get one wristband for free and another for just $50! The event itself was awesome...

Our last day in Sydney was relatively quiet. The highlight being going for drink in the tower with a rotating bar. While the bar itself was quite cool it was the lifts that impressed us most. There are TV screens in each lift showing what´s going on in the other lift - lucikly for us when we got the lift up the lift going down was full of girls who put a smile on our faces with an impromptu flash... (SM)

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Sean, Karl & Dan on January 3, 2008 from Sydney, Australia

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