Okay, sorry to our millions of loyal readers :-) for not posting more about our time in Australia along the way. We’re going to backtrack a bit and post about our time down under now...to catch you all up! So back to July 30th we go:
Ending our time in Sydney we stayed two nights at WakeUp! Sydney - which was a neat hostel. We met Dee from England and hung out at the bar with her for the last night before the trip began. Drinks are pretty much the same as in the US - but the Aussie’s have their own rum called Bundaberg or Bundy for short. Kristen is not a fan of it intruding her normal rum and diet coke drink as it was quite bitter. Anywho, that was fun and was a cool way to end our time in Sydney. (Dee was born in Mauritus - island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean - which she told us all about - so that’s another place we’ve added to our list of places we want to go)
The next morning we got up early and met our tour guide Adam out in front of WakeUp. We drove around a bit in Sydney to pick everyone up and then headed North out of the city over the coathanger (that’s what the Aussie’s call the Sydney Harbour bridge). We met the people sitting around us on the bus as we drove to our first stop, the Hunter Valley wine region. Kristen was happy to meet Amy and Ashley from Canada who are also fourth grade teachers. We also met Paul and Emily from England who were travelling on holiday.
After sampling some great Aussie wines and cheeses we got back on the bus to headed North. On the way there we did introductions and got to meet the full 28 or so people on the bus. There weer almost 10 teachers in all - apparently Australia is a popular holiday destination for teachers from around the world in summertime. I think about half of the group was from England too - so we had a respectable bit of Team Britain with us for the trip too (we’re of course okay with that!).
We ended up in Myall Lakes for our first night with the group - which we’ll get to next.
Cheers.
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