"There's nowhere else like it" reads the blurb on tourist info for Sydney. Well this is my second time in Sydney and I'm going to give the copywriters the benefit of the doubt. This is one of the most hyped cities in the world. It's a "destination city". It looks fabulous in photos. When you get here you realise that Sydney is genuinely pleased with itself.
My experience of the city was a little different. Last time I was here in 2000, it rained constantly and the weather matched my mood. Trudging around the city wet through, even if it contains one of the most striking harbours in the world, gets tiresome after a while. Aussie's fabled good humour was somehow lost on the skyscrapers and busy double decker trains. In it's competitiveness to match the best cities of Europe and America, seemed to have taken on their bad points as well.
Well I'm here again and I have friends to look up and a Writers festival to check out. The beaches are inviting if the water is a little cold. It's time to see how good this place really is...
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Aloha Mike,
Time to let your hair down a little. Grab Chris and Helen and head towards the best funk nightclub in Sydney. Its in Kings Cross situated in an old terrace house on the far end of Kellett Street. Sorry couldn't find its name but listings are in the freebie papers in all music shops,
Aloha, Phil
Alright Mikey Monkey,
Hope you find you thrills and spills in Sydney. The second time's the charm. Trust me, you don't want to be in the UK at the moment, there is an impending smoking ban and Big Brother has just started. Which means most people are moody and they're talking crap :0)
Hope you're good,
Ben.
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