Sydney, an incredibly tolerant city, with a huge multicultural basis

Day 1 in Sydney, Windy, Rainy 4th June 2016

Our exciting itinerary for 7days 6 nights winter Sydney for 3 seniors, 4 adults and 1 teen.

Day 1 rainy

- midnight flight from Singapore to Sydney

- reach Sydney meet out driver to go apartment

- explore surrounding at the apartment

- our Australian uncle n aunt pick us to their house for a sumptuous BBQ dinner
and wine

- back to apartment

Day 2 rainy

- morning stroll around apartment area

- brunch at the Sydney Fish market

- spilt, some went to The star casino. While some went to darling harbour

- walked from Darling Harbour to Queen Victoria Building

Day 3 cloudy n sunny

- morning stroll and exercise

- Luna Theme Park

- Chinatown for dinner

- Stroll at Sydney opera house to catch the Vivid Sydney

Day 4 cloudy

- morning stroll at garden near apartment

- brunch, fish and chips at Watson's Bay

- explore and trekking at Watson's bay

- back to Circular Quay, explore CBD area and china town

- dinner at Chinatown in Market city

- back to apartment for wines

Day 5, Sunny and cool

- Meet guide and driver to Full day trip to Blue Mountain

- Brunch at Black Heath

- Featherdale Wild Park

- Lincoln's Rock

- Eagle Hawk Look out of The 3 sister rock

- Govett's Leap

- Pulpit Rock

Day 6 Sunny, cool

- Meet guide and driver to South Pacific

- Bulli lookout

- Biggest and oldest Rain tree

- Woolonggong

- Kiama Blow hole

- South Pacfic Look out

Day 7

- Check out

- Sydney to Singapore

Sydney, capital of New South Wales and one of Australia's largest cities, is best known for its harbourfront Opera House, with a distinctive sail-like design. The majestic structure of the Harbour bridge, the magnificant Central station and many other landmarks.

Sydney an incredibly tolerant city, with a huge multicultural basis. This was our first trip to Sydney, we were very excited everyday and so looking forward to this cosmopolitan city. We had researched and planned lotsa things to do and food we want to eat. We even planned to go to whisky bars, cafe hopping and many, many more but day time is short in winter and shop closes early, the only shop that opens till midnight around our apartment is "Coles" the big supermarket so we went to Coles to fascinate ourselves. So many things to do and explore and so short our trip, 7 days and 6 night.

This trip was a big family trip with 3 senior citizens, 4 adults and a teenager. As it is a big group with different travel habits. Hence we had planned an easy, comfortable, fun and memorable activities for everyone.

The weather is different from most countries with 4 seasons. In Australia June is Winter. We went on first week, 4th June 2016, the temperature ranges from 17 to 15 degrees. On the first and 2nd day of our trip, there came a passing storm of strong winds and rain, Heard from Aunt Mary whom had live in Sydney for many year, this storm has never happened for the last 30 years and we came to bring them water ( Water is luck and prosperity for chinese). The wind was so strong that it was impossible to hold an umbrella. Luckily, we brought raincoat and ponchos along.

Travel essentials

Mobile Data and local calling SIM Card

At the Arrival Hall in Sydney International airport, located near the Mac Donalds.

: Vodafone SIM card counter at Sydney International Airport

There are Vodafone and Optus telecompanies to choose from, we got Data fixs from Vodaphone, colours is important in advertising, the red colour really catches our attention and subconsciously we just walk to the red colour counter.

The plan for short term mobile data

- AUS$30 for 4GB of Data no local calls, for 30 days
(Promotion free additional 4GB) total 8GB

- AUS$30 for 2GB of Data with local calls for 30 days

The Datas are able to create Hotspots for our other family to connect :)

Our Day 1 itinerary

• Fly from Singapore Changi Airport to Sydney City (Direct)
(12:45am Flying with Singapore Airlines, 8 hours)

• Reach Sydney Airport Morning at 10:25am Sydney time
(Sydney time is 2 hours ahead of Singapore time)

• Pre-booked an Airport shuttle to pick all of us up to our apartment
- Airport shuttle can be prebooked via online, there are many companies that provides
such airport pick ups for groups. There are the trains from airport to central station.
- We booked our apartment from AirB&B, It's a 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms beautiful
apartment located at Leichhardt Sydney, great area with delicious Italian Food.

• Meet our uncle family from Sydney to their house for a sumptuous spread of BBQ feast.

• Back to Apartment rest

: view outside the Apartment at Leichhardt Sydney

BBQ dinner at uncle Raymond's house and his family in Sydney

: views from uncle Raymond's house

: Chef Raymond at work

: another 2 more chefs took over the cooking

: Small belly's fascination with the "Vegemite", it actually tastes like the Mamite in SG, very salty good with porridge. Do you know that The Mamite brand in SG? in Australia is called "Our Mate" lol hahah