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Monday 26'th
Departing Vejle at 6.03 am - with 4 hours of
sleep in the bag. Well - I will be sleeping on the trip - and anyway - I couldn't do it in
advance due to the exitement.
In Copenhagen a little before 9 a.m - then by
bus to Kastrup Airport. Fast check-in and ready for the flight to Singapore.
Departure with Singapore Airlines at 11.30 am - exectly.
Pretty fancy flight taking about 12 hours. That's a long time eventhough you could watch
the movies and play the Nintendo on a small screen built into the seat in front of you.
Saw "The Full Monty" - and some stupid action film featuring Anthony Hopkins.
Can't remember the title. Not worthy for remembering.
Playd some golf on the Nintendo. 132 strokes
above par in the first round was not to impressive. The flight itself was - boring.
Food was ok - but looked more impressive on the
menu. The spirit in the plane was like on a charter-plane. A lot of people would be
continuing on to Australia. The flight went past Moscau, cross Afghanistan, Pakistan,
India, Bangladest, Thailand and Malaysia. It feels strange to cross hight above places
like Kabul and Bangladest with so much death and poverty. Above Malaysia there was a huge
thunderstorm - very impressive
Tuesday 27'th
Landing in Singapore at 7 am. local time.
Absolute bomber - me of course, not Singapore. This was just the time to go to bed, but
that was kind of impossible. The flight to Sydney has been resceduled from 10 am to 11.30
am. Slighthly panic. On the first schedule I would be in Sydney at 9 pm - og and key for
the hotel should be picked up at midnight. Now nothing much should go wrong -and I would
be late
Uses the time in Singapore looking around in
what should be the most efficient airport in the world. Changi it's called. Very nice,
very big, very efficient - and very boring.
Departure
at 11.30 am to Sydney. On time - thank god. Also an Airbus like the one to Singapore. 9
hours trip - thank god I sleep some of it.
What I see from the flight is actually very
nice. Especially approaching Sydney in the evening. Just circling the city and I can see
fireworks. The chinese celebrate their new year. First time for me watching the fireworks
from above.
We land in Sydney at 10 pm. Im lucky and
gets quickly past the customs. They are pretty hysteric and a lot of people get checked.
They are looking for food - meat and fruit are banned to cross.
Out of the airport looking for a taxi to the
hotel. But then there's a minibus, that tours the hotels in downtown. I'll take that
instead. I'm at Victoria Street in Kings Cross half an hour before midnight. I get my key
at a local grocery-store. Then into Highfield House - and find no. 32. A very small room
with a bed, a sink and nothing else. It's very hot on this side of the earth. A quick
douche - I needed that -and then sleep..............
| Wednesday 28'th Wake up pretty early. The first thing I notice
is the that the birds sounds different compared to home. The second thing I notice is,
that the garbage men sounds exactly the same. Very noisy. Breakfast at a local McDonald -
and then going Downtown. Into Greyhound Pioneer to get my aussie-pas confirmed.
Then a walk to Circular Quay, and with a ferry across Sydney Harbour to Tarango Park Zoo.
Take the cable-car to the top of the hill, where the zoo is located. From here you walk
down all the time - until the exit at the bottom. Pretty smart. The zoo was nice.
Surprisingly there were Koalas and Kangaroos - so everything was just fine. There were not
a lot of people - probable due to the hot weather - 36 degrees celsius, that's 97 F. Back to the hotel in the afternoon - just to
find out that the sun is a little hard on someone from the northern part of the world.
In the evening I check out my local
neighbourhood - pretty dusty - but I do find a supermarket with some decent sun-screen.
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Thursday 29'th
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Not so hot today. 26 degrees celsius (79F). I
take the metro to Bondi Junction - and changes for the bus to Bondi Beach. From there a
very nice walk along the beach - a scenic route. Ends up in Bronte - and from there back
to Highfield House in the afternoon
Later that day a long walk to Downtown - looking
for some "must-sees". Down to Sydney Harbour, The Rocks, Sydney Harbour Bridge
(when I finally found the way up there), crossing the bridge - very nice wiev. The the
Opera-house - and a walk around it - you have to do that.
Then back to the hotel. My feet have made some miles today -
and they are not to happy about it.
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Friday 30'th
With the metro to Cronulla. A very rich suburb with huge
houses and nice boats. A think this is the place to go, when you get retired. After
walking the wrong way I finally find what I'm looking for - and old fishingboat that takes
the trip to Bogheeda at the outskirts of the Royal National Park. Very much a
retired-peoples- place-to-go. No real tourists here - except me.
Walks a little around Bogheeda. My feet is huring so it's not
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Saturday 31'st
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Going to Darling Harbour - after having checked-out at
Highfield House, and put my luggage at a locker at the bus-depot. Sydney Aquarium - very
nice- you could walk under the water and look up on the sharks and a lot of different
fish.
Finds a place to sit down with a book - then on to Chines
Garden - a nice garden placed right under two freeways - so the thing is pretty
noisy.
Finally ends up in an Internet-cafe in a local shopping-mall.
Looking for e-mail - and sending some - if it works ok.
Late in the afternoon back to the Greyhound-station for my
trip to Melbourne. I have chosen the Express-route running during the night, and a planned
stop on the way to Melbourne has been dropped. Leaving with Greyhound at 7 pm.
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