| Australia is vast, almost double the size of Europe. Although it is justly renowned for it's natural | |||||||||
| beauties, it's varied cities offered their fair share of art, architecture and historical interest. Australia's | |||||||||
| biggest attraction is its natural beauty. The landscape varies from endless dense tropical rainforest to | |||||||||
| southern chilly beaches. Scattered along the coast, its cities blend a European enthusiasm for art and | |||||||||
| food with laid-back love for sports and the outdoors | |||||||||
| We visited some places in New South Wales with more visits in Sydney. Sydney is Australia's oldest city, | |||||||||
| the economic powerhouse of the nation and the country's capital in everything but name. It's blessed | |||||||||
| with sun-drenched natural attraction, dizzy skycrapers, delicious and daring restaurants, | |||||||||
| superb shopping and friendly folks. | |||||||||
| Although it has come a long way from its convict beginnings, it still has a rough and ready energy | |||||||||
| and offers an invigorating blend of the old and the new, the raw and the refined. Sydney Harbour, | |||||||||
| dramatic cliffs and stunning beaches define the city. But whichever way, from the white sails | |||||||||
| of the harbour, the arc of The Coathanger to the toned flesh of Bondi, Sydney isin Singapore, | |||||||||
| We had a lovely evening hosted by our friends from Dhaka in Star city hotel. We spent the new year's eve all | |||||||||
| together watching the spectacular fireworks of the Harbour bridge, just beautiful!!! The new year | |||||||||
| started with a smile of contentment in everyone's face. | |||||||||
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| From Sydney, we drove to Gold coast, the distance is around a thousand kms. We decided to do it in 2 days | |||||||||
| and experience rather the coastal touring of the pacific coast. We passed lots of ports and waterways, | |||||||||
| beautiful beaches, wilderness overlooking verdant farmlands, unspoiled coastline which cradles to some surfing | |||||||||
| beaches. Lush picturesque countryside and green valley. It does offer a pristine surroundings. We took a | |||||||||
| night off in Port Mcquarie. The next day, we are back on the road towards goldcoast, stopping in every beautiful | |||||||||
| scenery we spotted. It was a lively ride along the countryside. | |||||||||
| The drive was shorter than anticipated, in three hours, we reached the Gold coast | |||||||||
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We joined Anna and Waldo's family and the boys are so happy to be together. We had five days of fun |
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kids had adventure in wet and wild parks with Steph while me, Waldo and Anna went around together. We |
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had everyone for dinner, babbling each other's adventure. Just enjoying the foods and drinks was relaxing. |
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The day came for Basilia's family to go back to Singapore, we do missed them in our last days in Goldcoast. |
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We keep up with our tour after a day break, we went around the city, visited the marina, |
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| watched the tennis players in person during the Queensland Women's Hardcourt tournament. We had | |||||||||
| the chance to see Martina Hingis, Golovin, Patty, we were all delighted to watch them. We visited the | |||||||||
| famous Australian Zoo in Brisbane, watched the crocodile show of Monti in person and see more of the Zoo | |||||||||
| More little things we did that make us happy is browsing the malls (wink)!! Then we flew to | |||||||||
| Melbourne and spent a week, we explored the ocean road, visited wool museum and city of Ballarat | |||||||||
| We left Melbourne satisfied with the holiday and cherish the memories of days spent in that beautiful place. | |||||||||
| We arrived in Singapore early morning and we took a great time sleeping to recover from | |||||||||
| the jetlag, not much hours difference yet we linger on. We keep up with our visits | |||||||||
| in Singapore, this is our third time but we don't seem to have enough of the tiny little country yet so | |||||||||
| many big things in it. Just follow us through in our photos and share with us the fun of our holiday. | |||||||||
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