Returning to Sydney
Jan 21st, 2008 by Nick
The saddest thing about wasting Monday night at the Ayers Rock Resort is that I could really use one more day in Sydney. As it is, my flight leaves at 10:55am Tuesday, and with the time change I will get to my hotel room at about 5pm. I will have essentially 43 hours left on the vacation on that point, and I’m going to have to go at a furious pace to get as caught up on Sydney as possible. Completely caught up from the days lost being sick is not going to happen, so it becomes a matter of what gets left behind.
I’ve moved back to the Hilton for the last two days. The two must-see things on my agenda are the Taronga Zoo and the Opera House tour. I’d like to get to Bondi, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. Now that all the restaurants are open again, I’m planning to have dinner and poke around Darlinghurst and Surrey Hills the two evenings that I’m there. And I have to spend a little time getting myself slowly reimmersed into work on Wednesday and Thursday before breakfast, so that I have something to do on the flight to LA.
When Mike and I were on our honeymoon back in the day we met an American women when we were Buckingham Palace waiting for the changing of the guard. She gave us her theory of travel, and that was to not plan to see everyone — but plan to return and see other things “next time.”