Steve’s sister Leanne picked us up at the train station and welcomed us so lovely including offering us nice dinner. Anyway, her two dogs welcomed us before: Alex and Diesel. One of them is 4 years, the other one is around a year old and therefore very active. The two are Pitbull Terrier and very chaotic if they were together and always jealous on each other. But if they were separated both were very nice and lovely. We also met the others of Leanne’s family, the kids of her partner Megan with husband and Tim, both in our age and very nice and helpful. The next day we planned a bit, since we wanted to go to the Blue Mountains and we met Charlie, our couchsurfer from Perth, again who was working in Sydney by the time. Finally, we also got the package from Germany. Oh we didn’t mention that before: While our camping and road trips we always were in trouble recharging our electronic gears, mostly because the network was so bad sometimes that the mobiles had to be recharged every single day. So we ordered a solar charger and an adapter for the cigarette plug in the car from Amazon and got Tobi’s mother to send it from Germany to Australia. Surprisingly Amazon is not shipping to Australia (HOW CAN YOU GUYS SURVIVE WITHOUTH THAT???). It figured out to be cheaper ordering it to Germany and sending it to Australia than buying it here directly. Another proof that Australia can be quite expensive. Anyway the unpacking felt like a very late Christmas gift 🙂 Unfortunately Charlie didn’t have too much time as he spontaneously decided to fly to Canada for one month in order to go snowboarding. The next day we did the Bondi to Coogee Beach walk, a track which starts at Bondi and leads to Coogee Beach. It follows the cliffs which are surrounded some smaller beaches. There were a lot of tourists at the beginning, but the further you go the less tourists you’ll find on the track. There are definitely a lot of quite nice spots around and after we saw all these beaches around the east coast we were kind of forgiving with Sydney as most beaches between Sydney and Brisbane are just very similar… The next day we took the train to the world famous Blue Mountains…
Sydney – A second chance
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