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Thursday, March 25. Today we leave for Melbourne to Sydney. 12 of course, this is long enough especially that for here are not as comfortable as in South America for travel the same length. The bus is at 7:30, so we get up at 5:30. Before leaving, we wake Lucia to tell her goodbye She will have plenty of time to get through the morning after! We arrived at the bus terminal just in time (20 minutes before departure). Then we go for 12 hours of journey. We take care as we can, but eventually the time passes relatively quickly. We should begin to do the great trip! We arrive at the station in Sydney in late afternoon. We must go on foot at Tristan, our host of Couch Surfing. It is about twenty minutes with our big bags, and bursting with enough day that we spent. And here it is warmer than Melbourne, it soon became very hot! Aprèsavoir looked a little door of the house, it finally arrives. Tristan lives in collocated with John and two other people. We will soon take a shower, it really needs ^ ^ Can we leave a little time for a drink with Tristan and John.

Friday, March 26. We take our time this morning to get up. We're leaving in the morning to visit the city. The city center is about thirty minutes at Tristan, it allows us to explore the area by walking through the streets. Despite being the largest in Australia, much like other city with a downtown square and a pedestrian street (well, a "mall" that here is not quite as pedestrian ... ) You take the high road, "Elizabeth Street, which crosses the city from south to north. It thus ends up arriving at the headquarters "The Rock", very nice. From there you can already see not far opera. It's always more impressive in real life than in photos. We walk a little in the area where there is a small market, and where is the information center. We made a quick turn in the 2.

At the i-site, we reserve tickets for the concert to be held in two days at the opera. It is a particular concert, much less expensive than usual concerts. We made a U-turn, through the port from which it has a beautiful view over the famous bridge near the opera. We then made a tour of the botanical garden (which the second visit!) And then continue to descend towards at Tristan. As we walked a lot today, there arises a time in the "Hyde Park" which is on our road. It's great fun, there is a fountain with a beautiful cathedral and behind a lot of people passing by, resting, playing ... Finally, Tristan returns home. You take a shower, you can relax a little, then emerges with he and John to eat and have some fun. Evening nice.

Saturday, March 27. It does not do much that day ^ ^ We get up relatively late because of the previous evening. By late morning, we went to the popular beach in Sydney, Bondi Beach. John is with us in the car, what suits us! The time is mixed, and the wind blows hard enough. To simply say it is not very hot in swimsuit but we'll swim a little while anyway. We will then sit on the beach. We spent several hours here, then mid-afternoon, we went home Tristan. We're back quickly to Coles (supermarket) next door to buy food. We spent the end of the afternoon at Tristan. In the evening we go out again in the streets of Sydney.

Sunday, March 28. Till late enough for this morning. Anais share a ride into town in early afternoon. She returned to the port sees a pretty impressive show of a guy in the street. Shortly before 16h, Nadège joined the front of the Opera. In one hour, the concert will begin. And until we walk around the Opera and within the designated areas. It's really pretty. We buy some postcards, we admire the sea view from inside the opera, then we enter the theater. It's a beautiful room, the scene is beautifully decorated in the style of 18th century, with a piano. At 17h battery, the concert begins. There is a pianist and four singers (a tenor, a bass, a soprano and a mezzo) They sing opera tunes, as of course Carmen and La Traviata. Well, our musical culture in this area is still limited quickly, so we do not recognize all the tunes. But in any case this small concert 1:30 we will be well pleased. Waiting for the bus home Tristan. Our bags were recovered from him and then you start to get in other Couch Surfers, who lives in the suburbs of Sydney, 2 hours in transit. It therefore takes the train station towards Whyee. Arivées there, Leigh, our host, and Dorf, his roommate, we are waiting with their car. Their house is still several minutes away, in a little village called Budgewoi. At home there is the wife of Leigh, Michelle. We talk a moment with the 3, they are very nice. Since he has arrived, it is especially Dorf speaks because he is accustomed to the CS system, while for Leigh and Michelle, it's their first time, so this is not necessarily obvious. But we are very proud to be their first experience ^ ^