I arrived in sunny Sydney and got back into my normal traveling routine... Making poor decisions and taking ages to get anywhere! I missed my bus as I was trying to be a cheap ass and get one from outside the airport before realising that would mean I had to walk down a three lane motorway for an hour with my full pack on. So I waited half hour got the right bus (on the third attempt as I just kept getting on every bus that showed up. Then met an Indian guy named Sebastian who was also transferring at the local train station to get to circular quay. Due to me facing about getting a ticket at the wrong terminal I missed my ferry too. So I sat and listened to a busking swing band under the Sydney harbour bridge for half hour. Eventually I got on the ferry and sailed around the well lit opera house to Manly.
After grabbing a cheeky pie I met JJ my old school friend on the corso. It was great to see him again. He's got a pretty cool job coaching Sydney FC youngsters and is contracted to AS Roma for scouting purposes.
We went to a huge open air pub. It was a massive culture shock for me after being in New Zealand for nearly a year. Going from no young people and dancing on a Friday night with a crowd of four people to a Sunday night with a good few hundred 18-30 in this pub alone!
We had a good catch up that evening and the next morning I went surfing at Manly Beach.
JJ's board was pretty huge but I still did pretty well. I managed to catch a couple of green waves and rode them all the way in to shore. The unfortunate thing was I didn't put any suncream on the backs of my thighs. So my arse was to be red raw for the rest of my trip!
That evening, when JJ got back from work, we went to get some food from the big open air pub again. JJ and I split a burger and salmon making ourselves a very unusual surf n turf!
We then played a couple of games of pool at the harbour side before heading home.
On my final day in Manly I wanted to go surfing again, but my thighs just wouldn't take it! So I decided to go for the scene walk way. After walking only about 20 minuets I found a nice tree and had a nap until it was time to go into Sydney and meet my friend Jasmine.
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