Travel Blog 2. Australia, Sydney

Kangaroos , Shopping and Didgeridoo

We went to the airport and found our plane. The though of sitting on a plane for fifteen hours was horrible, but we had to make the best out of it, so we bought magazines, choclate and ice-tea. Then we were ready for take-off. The first seven hours went on great. We talked a lot and watched a couple films , but then we started to get bored. Ingrid was a sleep and I started reading a magazin all over agian just to see if I had missed something , and I had. It was an article about the Australian flag, quite interesting. The Australian flag is navy blue and has Union Jack in the left corner of it.Union Jack is the U.K's flag. The reason why the British flag is on the Australian flag is because; in 1779 James Cook arrived the country and declared it belonging to England. James Cook wasn't the first person who discovered Australia. Before him it was the Indonesians, the Spanish captain Luis Vaez de Torres, the Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman and the English pirat and explorer William Dampier. To the right of the Union Jack there is the Southern Cross constellation and under the Union Jack there is a seven-pointed star which represent the six current stats and the seventh symbolise any future territories.

We landed at 5 o'clock in the morning, got our things and found the bus to our hotel, Stamford Sydney Airport Hotel. While we were un-packing, we decided that we didn't want to go to bed, even though we were tired after sleeping terrible on the plane. We couldn't spend our only day in Sydney sleeping. Happy and satisfied we sat on the bus into sydney city, ready for some shopping! As we were admiring the dry Australian landscape with huge rocks and green-brown shrubs, the bus suddenly stopped. The busdriver went out of the bus ,and so did the passengers. It was a kangaroo, he had been hit by a car and was lying in the middel of the road. People got closer and wanted to help the poor animal, but the busdriver stopped them by screaming: NO,NO! Don't turst it, you'll get hurt! He commended in to the bus again and called the police. As the bus turned and had to take another way into the city, the busdriver turned on his microphone; "a kick from a kangaroo can kill a person", was the only sentence I could understand og his Australian English.

Shopping in Sydney is heaven! All the stores and shopping-centres you can dream of. After running around, crazy from store to store using the credit card hotly for five hours, we decided to take a break and find a cafè.

You can't visit sydney without seeing the opera! It was enormous and had a fantastic architecture. For me it looked like a big flower that was in it's best flowering. We bought tickets for a tour. The house had 1000 rooms, including five theater halls, five exercise studios, two main halls, four restaurants, six bars and numerous souvenir shopes. Amazing!

Back to the hotel, there was a posting in the lobby saying, " We promise you an enchanting preformance for the famous didgeridoo-player, William Burton in the dinning room". We were both hungry and the concert was free, so why not? The food was delicious. Then the concert started and William Burton came up on the little stage with his guitar and didgeridoo( a flute from the Aborigines culture). Ingrid loved the music form the start, I was more skeptical to it. It sounded so creepy, and it wasn't that typr of music you dance to. The sound was like a buzz from a bie.

Now I 'm packing for tomorrow, while Ingrid is on her laptop, searching on YouTube for more music from William Burton, she's a fan now. Last word: today Sydney, tomorrow the Caribbean!

Good night :)