Day 1: Sydney

I had the most amazing first day in Sydney. It was just perfect. After an exhausting long flight I arrived by train to the Central Station and walked over for just 5 minutes to my Hostal (the wakup) it is a very nice, clean and friendly place and best of all, they gave me inmediately my room (bed) and I could take a shower. I resisted the temptation to lay down as that would mean not being able to get up again after over 40 hours on the road. This way I was on my way to discover Sidney already at 8 o'clock in the morning and the city awaited me with bright sunshine and a nice (2nd) breakfast at the harbour. After this I took a walk up to "the rocks" and the Opera House passing by Harbour Bridge and so on. Sydney is really great, it is quite modern, but you can find older buildings, mainly churches in between the skyscrapers (here everything over 80 year is already old of course). I think the best way to describe Sydney is with the words that are written on a sign at the Botanical Garden "Please walk on the grass, hug the trees, talk to the birds..." everybody is so friendly and so open. The botanical garden was full of strange animals that we normally only see in zoos like giant (scary) bats or flying foxes that were hanging in masses from the trees, which was quite spooky, and more than 20 kakadoos flying around and making quite a noise. After this all nature experience and the walk back to the hostal I was quite exhausted and could feel my legs get heavier with every step. That's why I decided to take a siesta. In the end due to the jet lag I wasn't really able to sleep but at least I could rest a bit.
In the late afternoon I met with Anita, native Australian, who took me to for a beer to a bar with views to the opera house and the bridge and then for a real Aussi Pizza with kangaroo and crocodile. In fact canguru tastes quite like beef and crocodile has the texture of chicken but tastes rather like fish, very yummy. Now I'm going to bed as there is so much more to do tomorrow.

Kangaroo, Crocodile Pizza and little Creatures Australian beer with Anita and Erik