We are facing 9:10min flight to Bangkok - did I mention it is a day flight? - so I might as well take the time to do a "quick" review of our Sydney week while at the start of that adventure. (Read: now that the three kids are still more or less under control - i don't fool myself anymore that they are ever completely under control - and our neighbours in flight still have decent levels of tenderness and patience )
We booked an Airbnb to have a bit of a home feeling and to have some space after the campervan. Also, sydney is reeeally expensive! Even if we d take bunkbeds in backpackers hostals, i got around a 100-130euros a night! Let's not talk about hotel rates, which also would have meant we d had to take all our meals outside, expensive joke as well. So we opted for a "stunning little townhouse" in Manly, known to the kids as 'la petite maison où on peut faire des barbecues". just a 5min walk from the green ferry to the opera and citycentre. Locationwise perfect!
Manly is really a relaxed family friendly suburb, and the 30min ferry to city centre is just the good start of an excursion. On weekdays at 6pm you see all the whitecollars getting of the boat and take a quick dive in the sea (manly has got two sides ; open to the ocean with big waves and surfers, and the more enclosed harbourbeaches) on weekends the beaches and every spot of grass available along the beach is taken by picnics & aperos! It is quiet animated, sometimes loud (the youth of today) and we just enjoyed it from a little distance, grateful (again) not to be here during high Holiday season! Longing (a bit) to those years without kids/tantrums/rithms/strollers/.... ;-)
After a first day in Manly at the beach and on a kayak, we headed to the city on sunday. Aussies seem equally relaxed and friendly as the kiwis. I have to say we have never felt insecure, though of course downtown is a big city. We where all kind of exited to see the opera and the bridge. Kids even managed to be excited over the opera every time it appeared in sight. And again, and again, and again. We combined a walk with a hop on hop off bus tour, lunch at the rocks, stroll through the botanical garden, turning around the ópera, icecream in Darling harbour,....
On Monday Pierre took Matthias to the doctor in a Southern suburb to take off his cast. As it is a bit early (they said 4 months) we have to respect Mat in his progress... Concretely, cast off + 4 days, we feel like having a litlle toddler, exited about him crawling alone, then making his first steps at our hands, then 3 steps alone.... But I think we ll have to be patient before he really walks and we can get rid of the stroller.... So Cambodia with a stroller but without cast, here we come!
We had another day at the obligatory 'family in Sydney' spot; the zoo! Completed by a koala encounter. It is a nice zoo, still a zoo, but it has STUNNInG views on Sydney's harbour!
Rainy day at home, another day around manly and litlle manly beach , then the ever challenging fun of packing!
We where supposed to go to the blue mountains but .... Didn't want to spend double money on Airbnb in manly + accommodation in the blue mountains // didn't want to spend 4 hours in the car ida y vuelta (especially me, as Pierre seems to have superpowers for not hearing screaming/fighting/... kids while driving.)// weather forecast wasn't great great//.. Moreover, some nice friends are moving to Brisbane (more or less) shortly and we like leaving a country with some excuses to come back! So blue mountains (and all the rest of Australia.....) + friends are adding up for some more planning, dreaming, .... Of coming back one day to the Aussies!
After this lovely 9:10hours dayflight (i already said that.no?) We will be spending one night at Amélie and Manu's place in Bangkok (well amelie and the kids, as manu unfortunately is running away from us for some professional urgency) and then Saturday we will fly into Cambodia for three weeks of new tastes (omg... That is going to be fun with our no vegetables, nothing Unknown or too exotic eating kids!) New sights, new adventures and new language - after learning the tank you very much - which really sounded like perfect Flemish speaking kids 'tank Joe very motch' and asking for the bill instead of la cuenta - Williams nickname surely helping in remembering that word.
(Before going back to Bangkok, probably on Jan 1st)
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