Still in Sydney

Yep I'm still here, but I should be moving on tomorrow. Went to a free concert/festival type thing yesterday in Darling Harbour, which was pretty cool. They had a massive event to celebrate a Harbour's 21st birthday - just goes to show what sort of a country this is, I guess.

Spent most of the day wandering round with Lou (from the Oz Experience tour), eating ice cream, buying sunglasses and sitting akwardly in a manicure place while she had her scummy feet tended to. And despite both her efforts and the frankly insulting remarks from the Thai pedicure lady regarding the state of my feet, I managed to avoid getting my toenails painted pink.

Since we had about 2 hours before anything remotely decent was going to be on stage, we walked down to the observatory park to catch the last of the sunset (shut up Daniel!). Having done that, it was back to the main stage to see the last few acts perform. First up was an aboriginal digeridoo/dance group, who were just plain odd, but they were only a warmup act for the big name of the night. Wes Carr, Australian Idol winner!! So we were expecting some cheesy westlife covers and maybe a disney song or two, but it turns out, really quite paradoxically, that the winner of Australian Idol actually has some talent! Okay, not masses, but he was pretty good at guitar and he looked like Jesus, so that was enough to win me over.

Once he'd filled his half hour slot in 15 minutes, we were subjected to some of the worst ad libbing I've ever heard from the two comperes for the evening. They had 15 minutes to fill and actually resorted to talking about the weather. Shocking!

Next up were a group of Japanese drummers, who were awe inspiring! Really, really properly good! And their finale was accompanied by fireworks better than any London New Year. And this was all for a harbour's birthday!

After the fireworks, we met up with Emily and Kirstine for dinner in a quite expensive, but very nice Italian restaurant about 5 minutes walk down the waterside. Well worth the expense though, it was nice to finally be in some fluent English speaking company.

We all went our separate ways after the meal and as I was coming back into my hostel, a group of about a dozen people, some of whom I'd been chatting to the night before (we all watched the Man U match in the hostel TV room last night) were heading over the road to the 'Soho' bar for a few drinks. So I joined them and met two Dutch sisters who are renting a camper van and heading north up the coast. They've agreed to take me as far as either Byron Bay or Brisbane. So the next few days should be pretty good fun.

From there I'll probably Greyhound it back to Sydney and spend some more time here. I still haven't done the Blue Mountains or the zoo, both of which are apparently unmissable.

Sydney is flippin' cool! I wouldn't mind living here.

Anyways, I best be off.
Not sure when the next blog'll be, but I'm sure it'll be a good'un!

Byesy bye