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Hmm I still haven't quite got the hang of this. I typed a great long post a few minutes ago and hit submit and then Poof it disappeared. Oh well.

Anyway hi all. My daughter and I had a really great time in Seednee. We stayed at a bargain hotel in the centre of the CBD (A$79 per night - thanks Wotif.com) and walked and walked and walked and walked. Oh, we also caught lots of trains (bought 7 day train / bus / ferry pass each). We went to the Opera House, Circular Quay (had pistacchio gelato - yum!), wandered around The Rocks, Chinese Gardens (where a wedding was taking place), Taronga Zoo, travelled on the ferry, went on city tour, had coffee served on a silver? tray with a baby Easter egg and glass of water at a posh cafe right on Manly Beach on Easter Sunday, saw lots of historical buildings, Chinatown, Paddy's Markets (twice), Market City discount mall, Paramatta Mall (soo big), walked through the Botanical Gardens, rubbed the Boar's snout (for luck) outside Sydney Hospital, visited NSW Art Gallery (includes great Aboriginal display), tried on clothes at David Jones and Myers in the CBD (but didn't buy), had melt-in-the-mouth chocolate cake and choc coffee at the Lindt speciality chocolate shop for breakfast, wandered through the Queen Victoria Building (so beautiful, and such pricey shops) and generally saw and did lots.

We ate whenever we felt really hungry, wherever we were. But without a man in tow, the meals were not big and formal. So even though I ate what I liked, I think eating only when hungry and all the walking was why I lost a kilo. This has kick-started my healthy living plan again. I did not end up buying very much but what I did buy I like. I've also started clearing out all the dross from my wardrobe, and feel revitalised. It was just the kind of holiday I needed.

So thanks people for your suggestions. I printed them out and took them with me and did use quite a few.

walk the harbour bridge and do the harbour jet boat ride - worth every cent.

Glad you had such a good time Lee Donna. My dtr and I hope to do the same next year for my 50th and her 16th.

Delta.. yes..and my 60th
Reading this thread my whole being aches to be in Sydney. Its mad.
I have to return to NZ..and will live there but if I could live also in Sydney that would be my dream. Just wonder what went wrong with my head in 1999 when I was there and I ended up early 2000 here!!! :roll: :roll:
I want to be close to my family and living in Auckland I hope to be able to hop across the Tasman every few months - I may be living on the streets of course if I cannot find a job :cry:
travel may not be on my agenda. But 2007 first week of June - SYDNEY
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Hi Sylke. If you have somewhere to stay, it is so easy to go to Sydney now. Customs, flying, everything was so simple. Okay there are the airfares, and they are going up, but it is still cheaper than flying to the South Island from Auckland. So, I reckon you will be able to do it Sylke.

And what is this silly talk about being unemployed? I'm guessing here, but suspect that there have been other times when you thought you would never have a job again, then, POOF, there was another one. It is a bit like men. The jobs come along when we are not looking so hard. (though I am not saying we shouldn't look - for jobs that is).

Good one Delta. I suspect my daughter and I are a bit too similar in some ways and so can annoy each other. But with so much to do, and with a bit of compromise (I would have liked to see more Art Galleries, and walk over the bridge and ride more ferries and my daughter I'm sure would have liked to go to more discount malls and markets), we got on well. My daughter gets sea-sick even on a car ferry, and we both got so tired with all the walking. Anyway, there is so many choices, there are surely enough things to do and look at that it can be really good for mother-daughter time.

Lee Donna...I have family and friends in Sydney....keep going back to stay with my family whenever I am there.......but I doubt they want me full time!!

eeew...what is this new poster????? a bot bot??? or a Blog Bot?
Some kind of a Bot? weird!!!

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Chaos wrote:

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Try www.bigcitychic.com.au. There is a list of branches in Australia, and I think there are a couple in Sydney.

what is this exactly? I can't seem to figure it out... haha