After a good night of sleep, I saw a message from Jerry that the cleaning lady would come in at 10:00, so I woke up Mo to get ready. We let the cleaning lady in and left for the nearby park to see what we would do today.
Jerry had send a link with markets around Sydney and one of them on ‘the Rock’ was advised. So we decided to find out how the ferry works and see if we could find this market.
The ferry works very convenient, you beep in with your payment card and once you get off you beep again. We sailed to the other side of the bay, got nice views of the bridge and the opera house. The third stop was also the endpoint: Circular Quay. This seems to be the heard of all public transport. And a nice surprise, the fare was 1 AUD, (around 55 cents). We quickly found ‘the Rock‘, the old town of Sydney where the city started around 200 years. It is now a vibrant part of town with a nice mix of nicely renovated old – and new buildings.
But as much as we walked around there was no market to be found.
After a drink and a meal we came by place what had a sign that the market was closed until early January, while on a website it was specifically said that between xmas and New Years the market was open. Let’s see if we will have another opportunity later.
We also wanted to get a local sim card, so we would have an internet connection once we would leave Sydney. We where advised to get a Telstra sim, as their network has the best coverage, especially in the more remote areas. This seemed a bit more challenging. In the first store the employee was not very helpful, the clerk in the second store was more helpful. He pointed us to George street at the beginning of the CBD (Central Business District), which borders the Rock on the south side.
There we first found a shop with nice hats. I fitted several, including hat from crocodile – and kangaroo leather, but opted for a normal leather hat that can be folded. Soon after we found a shop which had Telstra sims and an helpful lady explaining to get online and find the package we required.
We wondered around George street and found the largest Lego store in the world, which we off course checked out. The we took the tram back to Circular Quay, where we caught the ferry back home. Mo cooked a nice meal, while I activated the SIM card. A little bit of chilling and we got to bed around 22:00. We seem to adapt to the current time zone.
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