Sydney: Exploring Museums
Our AirBnb was a fantastic location, right off of Hydes Park. From our fairly central location, we decided to take a day and do a walking tour of several free museums in the area. Since we were on a pretty tight budget, walking and hanging out at museums was the perfect…
Read MoreExploring Sydney Harbour
We were so excited to start exploring Sydney and the first thing we thought of was obviously the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. We were staying at an Airbnb right next to Hyde Park and planned a walking trip all the way across the bridge. It turned out to be several miles, but it was pretty warm that day (since it was July, it was winter in Australia!), so we didn’t mind…
Read MoreSydney: Newtown
One of our last days in Sydney fell on the Fourth of July, which is one of my favorite holidays. Obviously we couldn’t celebrate it in our traditional ways, so we decided to take the bus to Newtown, a southwest suburb of Sydney. We didn’t quite know what to do there except for a coffee shop we wanted to try, so we started our morning at Brewtown, reading our books and figuring out what…
Read MoreSydney: Bondi Beach
One of the things we were most excited about was doing to Bondi to Coogee coastal walk. We decided to spend the morning in Bondi and then do the walk, which is almost 4 miles, and head back from Coogee. We started out at a cute cafe/bookstore called Gertrude and Alice. We got coffee and read our own books, although I couldn’t help flipping through some of the books they had…
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