Super Sydney

We have finally made it to the legendary opera house and beaches in Sydney Harbour.

Here are pictures to show we managed to climb the steps to the entrance of the Opera House but we chickened out of the walk up the bridge

After that we caught a ferry over to Manly Beach and were able to walk along the edge of the South Pacific and watch the surfers and the volleyball players.  Not a budgie smuggler in sight - all the cool dudes seem to wear long shorts over bathers with a rim of the bathers showing, rather like the jeans and underpants look favoured by the young

Not sure which is bluer - the sea or the sky!  The black dots are surfers

There is a short pedestrian precint that links Sydney Harbour with the Pacific Ocean.  It is full of cafes and buskers and people having a good time.  It is a bit Brighton meets the South Pacific with palm trees

We like some of the road signs - this one seems to cover every eventuality

We are off to the blue mountains tomorrow to meet up with a long lost relative and hand over a tablecloth and 4 napkins that an aunt insisted I deliver as I was going to Australia.  I don't like to tell her that you can get tablecloths down the Manchester aisle in most shops ( see earlier blog)

My favourite shop signs today have been

"Burger Me" over a cafe

"Athletes Foot" over a sports shoe shop