And here we go.
Sydney, Australia, life dream comes true.
Very very nice city.
It's a mixture between San Francisco and London, with the beautiful beaches in addition (there are beaches in SF but you the water is too cold to swim). I could have stayed there my whole trip (1 month).
In fact some people do that (and they usually stay more than 1 month). There is so much to do there that you get the feeling to rush things in one week. I wish I could teleport friends and family and live here. This is a shared feeling with most people I met.
This won't happen I fear.
I went at the top of the bridge. BridgeClimb they call that.
Nice view but a rip off : 120 euros. The guide with our group was a very pretty blond girl (no picture sorry) what hardly made up for the price. What impressed me more is how she made some really funny jokes along the way, jokes she probably does 4 times a day. But she did them like if it was the first time. We laugh as good ripped off tourists do. Australians seem to have a wicked sense of humour, a bit like the english, whom they call poms and whom they take pleasure to beat at every sport.
Everything is really expensive here, what is the main drawback of this country. But once you are so far down under (expression to speak about Australia and New Zealand), you think what the eck, I'm so far from home I might never come back, let's spend all my money
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I will need a better paid job after this trip.
The best way to see the city is to take a ferry to another part of sydney like the zoo or manly beach.
The giraffe, a typical australian animal
You can see koalas and animals from everywhere actually. Koalas are like pretty furrytoys but stupid (not that toys are really smart). They spend 80% of their energy to digest the toxin of eucalyptus what let them less time to think about other things than eucalyptus. They have this dizzy look in their eye like some people I know have after some beers. They have few predators, what is lucky for us because otherwise they wouldn't have passed the darwin test and we wouldn't have the pleasure to pay 20 euros to have a picture with one at the zoo.
In fact, the first colons hunted them but it was quickly forbidden. Just too easy...
So they introduced foxes from Europe to foxhunt. Foxes have multiplied everywhere and provoked extinction of many many species. Humans are not much smarter than koalas sometimes it seems. Tasmania was the only place in australia not invaded by foxes, until recently when one was spotted.
The little one is as wanted as Osama Ben Laden. And as hard to catch it seems.