Don’t have too many Starbucks? You’re 100% correct mate because we like it that way. We like decent coffee not that Starbucks crap! Starbucks almost went broke here a few years ago because Aussies hated their brew. The only people who like it are American tourists who don’t know any better.
Fun fact: American chains attempt some stupid stuff and failed: 1. Starbucks in Australia 2. Taco Bell in Mexico 3. Domino's Pizza in Italy It's like they never learn. Next they'll try selling ice in Iceland.
@ Well I’m from Brisbane and have been here for 75 years. I used to travel around Australia on business a lot. I think that coffee in all three capitals Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne is all ok but now as I am retired I brew my own on our espresso machine. Costs around 20 c per cup as around $5 in a coffee shop. I’m a pensioner now and have to watch the pennies.
The 'bugs' you heard are cicadas, the classic soundtrack of the Australian summer. The thing you missed on on in your trip was the classic smell of the Australian summer - the smoke of countless bushfires, especially eucalyptus tree smoke. Perhaps next time. At Circular Quay some of the 'interesting birds' you saw were the Australian white ibis, known colloquially as Bin Chickens.
I’m thrilled that you and your lovely family loved my city of Sydney. You’ll enjoy Cairns. Being ex-Military, I’ve been to every corner of my amazing country. I also proudly served side by side with my wonderful North American (Yank or Canadian ???) brothers in arms in the Middle East. Take care and enjoy all that we have and all that we are truly grateful for. God bless mate.
When in Sydney use the ferries. Trip to Manly crosses the heads..the entrance to the harbour. Manly has an ocean beach and a soft wave harbour beach for little ones. Ferry to the Zoo, where the animals have the greatest views. NSW art gallery worth a visit. Free entry to permanent exhibitions. Same with Museum. Galleries cool on warm summer days. If time allows, a train to the Blue Mountains, the views from the lookout at Katoomba are spectacular.
You mentioned your son is musical and would like to perform at the Sydny Opera House, I married a girl from Ohio and we live here my daughter did actually perform at the Opera House and My heart exploded with pride, not to mention the US relatives.
Starbucks made a huge marketing error when they opened in Australia! They assumed we would be like American coffee drinkers, so their stores failed. You can find a video about it on YT.
We do have many chain coffee shops, but they are mostly in malls and shopping centres. The Coffee Club and Gloria Jean are quite big. I believe Gloria Jean was originaly American. McCafe was actually created in Melbourne, the world capital for coffee and cafes.
Welcome! Recommendations for you: 1. Ferry to Taronga Zoo. Take a bus from the ferry to the top entrance and walk back down to the ferry. 2. Ferry to Manly and walk to Shelley Beach. 3. Ferry to Watsons Bay and seafood at Doyles. 4. Daytrip to Katoomba and the Scenic Railway - book a tour for ease of travel.
In Sydney, we call her "The Coat Hanger". The old girl's nearly a hundred years old. I couldn't tell you how many times I've driven over the Bridge, and it never gets old. The view over the city is amazing.
I'm a Sydneysider and I was a bit surprised by the rubbish as you walked through. Not usually that much in my experience. Oh how gorgeous is your boy!!!! The Fortune of War is Sydney's oldest pub (not Australia's).
The Sydney Botanical Gardens are pretty, but they are like an ordinary back yard compared to Kings Park in Perth. 1000 acres (400 hectares) on the edge of the Swan river in the heart of Perth. It’s the biggest city park in the world.
Two days in Sydney?!?!?! For me I need three days just to get over jet lag! You did well for just two days and traveling with an 18 months old toddler. Amazing. Yeah, you need to come back. Maybe when your toddler is a little older. It’ll be interesting if he’ll remember this first visit.
the key to getting over jet lag is the first day. Before you even land, set your time to the new place, and DON'T SLEEP if it's daytime when you arrive, no matter how tired you are. Stay awake until say 10pm on the first day. When you wake up in the morning, you'll be adjusted. I'm from Sydney, and used to travel a lot, so I know it works. Flew to Stockholm once, 30 hours, it was like I was high the first day from sleep deprivation lol.
If you come to Melbourne, you will indeed find the world's best coffee. Starbucks did get reasonable patronage but we love the smaller, individual coffee shops😊 Enjoy your time here guys.
Sydney’s coffee is actually rated better than Melbournes. Top ten cities for coffee according to food and wine 2024 global tastemakers Sydney came in at number 3 with Melbourne at number 10.
I call them a pain in the arse. Although the seagulls at Circular Quay are worse. One stole a whole cheeseburger out of my hand when I was walking out of Maccas lol.
I hope you went to Circular Quay railway station and saw the view of the Bridge and the Opera House and the ferries at the Quay from there and caught a ferry to anywhere
The fortunate of war ...the Original pubs around the rocks are cool but if you are in Paddington, head to the back street pubs for a great Sydney day vibe , Saturday the markets are on and its a good stop off on the way to or from bondi ..on the 380 bus Congratulations for coming down under 🎉🎉🎉
Cicadas - pronounced sick-ah-dus. We don't have chain coffee shops because their coffee is shite. and we like good coffee. Starbucks went broke trying to sell us their milkshakes. Apparently they've opened up a couple of shops specifically for American tourists who don't "get" coffee.
The bugs are cicadas, crazy noisy, and loads at the moment. Please avoid Starbucks while here and enjoy the amazing coffee we have to offer. Try our classic flat white.
@@martingifford5415 The funny thing is parrots and song birds originated in australia and migrated across the rest of the world later. Before that the whole world would have been quite silent
Mate, welcome to OZ. The Rocks is one of the earliest boroughs of Sydney, a bit like Brooklyn or the Bronx in NY. It was once a residential area (1800s+) that went into serious decline (a centre of all sorts of criminal gangs which were called Pushes) but has been transformed into a tourist mecca with many historic buildings saved by becoming retail or food outlets. So, yes a suburb of sorts.
I’m glad you guys enjoyed yourselves in our city but I’d have thought you’d be shocked by the price of your hotel rather than the opera house. I hope you visited the Taronga zoo during your stay, spectacular views.
In Australia, the word shocked means surprised by something bad. I don't see anything in this video you should be shocked by, except for coffee at Starbucks.
No one calls anything in Sydney downtown The Mitchell library Shame you missed the Mathew Flinders statue and his sidekick Trim So different looking at your home city through the eyes of a visitor. Happy you enjoyed the city
It's kind of odd Americans saying the coffee is ok in Sydney when US coffee has its own issues. Do they still serve that dishwater filter coffee over there?
Cicadas (bugs) They make that noise by rubbing their legs together. I live at Bangaroo. Thats my Hood ! Nice Vid, hope you enjoyed yr stay. It's a beautiful city. BARcycle ! Thats where I get my filafel rolls from !
Dude you’re in Chinatown that’s why there’s lots of Asian shops and restaurants lol. You guys walked pretty far, usually people go up a couple streets to walk down George St or catch the light rail from the harbour to where you had lunch… but can’t be helped since you’re staying at Hyatt I guess. What most tourists don’t realise about Sydney is if you think the outside of buildings and places look nice, try going inside. It’s like metro, looks shabby on the outside but massive on the inside. A lot of popular places are like that in Sydney, usually gardens at the back inside. Safe travels!
"Not many Starbucks". Starbucks opened here with huge fanfares about how they'd introduce espresso coffee to Australia and similar boasting remarks. They failed. While there may be one or 2 left in areas where US business visitors go, all the other stores closed. Why? Australians like good espresso coffee in the Italian style, having been introduced to that by Italian migrants arriving just after WW II - that's not the style of coffee Starbucks offers. We like buying our coffee at a small and familiar shop where we are known to the staff and they are known to us. Again, that's not an experience Starbucks provides. What you will find is a large number of small coffee shops/bars, which is where we go.
@@glennoc8585 I'd have thought that the most popular order (at least around here in suburban Sydney) was for a cappuccino. No idea how authentically Italian it is.
The pub you mentioned would be the Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel in Kent St, Sydney. Horatio Nelson defeated the combined French & Spanish navies at Trafalgar on October 21, 1805, at the height of the Napoleonic wars.
It’s a replica of Il Porcelino - the famous boar sculpture in Florence . It was a gift to commemorate a father and son who were surgeons at that hospital in the Boer War and WW1. Money thrown into the foundation goes to help fund the hospital and it was installed in 1968. Bathurst Street isn’t named after a street in the UK, it’s named after Earl Bathurst, who was Secretary for the Colonies in the 1810s and 1820s.
What a load of garbage you write. The sculpture was a gift to the City of Sydney from the Marchesa Fiaschi Torrigiani, who donated the artwork in 1968, It has nothing to do with a water source, which by the way would be a bore, not a boar.
In Australia, Starbucks is what we feed to tourists who don't know any better. There are a couple of interesting YTs that go into why Starbucks's attempt to enter the Australian market was a gigantic failure. Basically, it comes down tp Australia having a very well-developed coffee culture post-ww2, fuelled by immigrants from Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries. Most Australians wouldn't feed Starbucks #### to a dog, or to their worst enemy. Well, MAYBE to their worst enemy. :)
The Rocks were one of the first distinct areas in the very early colonial period, for most of its history it was a very poor area, now much gentrified and tourist oriented. The Rocks apparently had the offical gallows used for public executions until about the 1820’s.
Well Melburnians like to boast that they have the best coffee, but the Flat White was invented here in Sydney. There is amazing coffee Australia wide & you will find that all our cities are clean
Sydney’s OK… but it’s not Perth… 😉 The Earth's distance from the sun in December is closer than it is in July and August because the Earth's orbit is elliptical… hats and sunscreen are a good idea, esp. for kids. Sunburn can happen in 10 to 15 minutes here.
What would surprise many about the Opera House are the levels below ground. At this time of the year, the Earth is at its closest to the Sun and the Earth tilts on its axis causing the Northern Hemisphere Winter and exposing Australia to Summer UV rays never experienced in the Northern Hemisphere. I come from a family of “Copper Tops” and blondes, 30 minutes in the sun can burn us badly so I would suggest a hat for your little one. I know you would have used sunscreen, but ear tips are often missed and my husband has had skin cancer on his ears (he is English so very pale).
Had a German friend over , chilling after sunset on the balcony with a beer he asked me about dangerous animals , I told him it was a legend , a bit of care and everything is OK , just then the biggest fruit-bat I ever saw flew by so close we could have touched it he freaked out , thinking they were some kind of vampire
Just watching your last couple of vlogs, and gotta point out the standard American tourist mistake...... walking down the right hand side of the footpath 😂 Go and watch again and will suddenly strikes you how obvious it was that you were walking into the crowd wherever you went 😅
Starbucks and their awful coffee flopped badly in Australia. Our local cafes are the best
Don’t have too many Starbucks? You’re 100% correct mate because we like it that way. We like decent coffee not that Starbucks crap! Starbucks almost went broke here a few years ago because Aussies hated their brew. The only people who like it are American tourists who don’t know any better.
Fun fact:
American chains attempt some stupid stuff and failed:
1. Starbucks in Australia
2. Taco Bell in Mexico
3. Domino's Pizza in Italy
It's like they never learn.
Next they'll try selling ice in Iceland.
@@Dobuan75Domino's is Aus
@@Dobuan75😅😅 I love it
I’m originally from Sydney but I think Melbourne’s coffee is far better, especially in Carlton.
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Well I’m from Brisbane and have been here for 75 years. I used to travel around Australia on business a lot. I think that coffee in all three capitals Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne is all ok but now as I am retired I brew my own on our espresso machine. Costs around 20 c per cup as around $5 in a coffee shop. I’m a pensioner now and have to watch the pennies.
The 'bugs' you heard are cicadas, the classic soundtrack of the Australian summer. The thing you missed on on in your trip was the classic smell of the Australian summer - the smoke of countless bushfires, especially eucalyptus tree smoke. Perhaps next time. At Circular Quay some of the 'interesting birds' you saw were the Australian white ibis, known colloquially as Bin Chickens.
I’m thrilled that you and your lovely family loved my city of Sydney.
You’ll enjoy Cairns.
Being ex-Military, I’ve been to every corner of my amazing country.
I also proudly served side by side with my wonderful North American (Yank or Canadian ???) brothers in arms in the Middle East.
Take care and enjoy all that we have and all that we are truly grateful for.
God bless mate.
Thank you for your service Sir!
When in Sydney use the ferries. Trip to Manly crosses the heads..the entrance to the harbour. Manly has an ocean beach and a soft wave harbour beach for little ones. Ferry to the Zoo, where the animals have the greatest views. NSW art gallery worth a visit. Free entry to permanent exhibitions. Same with Museum. Galleries cool on warm summer days.
If time allows, a train to the Blue Mountains, the views from the lookout at Katoomba are spectacular.
The ferry from Parramatta to Circular Quay is also a must.
You mentioned your son is musical and would like to perform at the Sydny Opera House, I married a girl from Ohio and we live here my daughter did actually perform at the Opera House and My heart exploded with pride, not to mention the US relatives.
My granddaughters have dance at the opera house
I sang at the Opera House back in the day with the school choir. Great memories. Congrats on your daughters' performance
Starbucks made a huge marketing error when they opened in Australia! They assumed we would be like American coffee drinkers, so their stores failed. You can find a video about it on YT.
Starbucks made a marketing error in Australia is a polite way to say they tried pass off bilge water as coffee.
We must thank all the Mediterranean people who brought coffee cultures here. Melbourne may be in the lead but the rest of Oz isn't far behind.
Your trying to prove a point to these American tourists, you like to show off and you have a hate for them.
Darlin little fella; star of the show. Interesting to see Americans loving to travel and see the rest of the world.
The pub is called The Fortune of War.
It’s nice to see this little guy enjoying Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
Love Sydney, the harbour and the rocks are amazing.
We do have many chain coffee shops, but they are mostly in malls and shopping centres. The Coffee Club and Gloria Jean are quite big. I believe Gloria Jean was originaly American. McCafe was actually created in Melbourne, the world capital for coffee and cafes.
Welcome!
Recommendations for you:
1. Ferry to Taronga Zoo. Take a bus from the ferry to the top entrance and walk back down to the ferry.
2. Ferry to Manly and walk to Shelley Beach.
3. Ferry to Watsons Bay and seafood at Doyles.
4. Daytrip to Katoomba and the Scenic Railway - book a tour for ease of travel.
Enjoyed your tour of Sydney, thanks guys!
In Sydney, we call her "The Coat Hanger". The old girl's nearly a hundred years old. I couldn't tell you how many times I've driven over the Bridge, and it never gets old. The view over the city is amazing.
The little guy is such a cutie. No complaining , just enjoying the walk. I think he will be a global wanderer like their parents.
I’m enjoying your review of Sydney. What a gorgeous family. Would love to see the meals you get and what you think of the food.
I'm a Sydneysider and I was a bit surprised by the rubbish as you walked through. Not usually that much in my experience. Oh how gorgeous is your boy!!!! The Fortune of War is Sydney's oldest pub (not Australia's).
if your'e in central part of the city its not called a neighbourhood its classed as a city a neighbourhood is known as a suburb in Australia
i dunno if you live in the cbd you can call your few blocks around your neighbourhood
@@overworlder not really
The Sydney Botanical Gardens are pretty, but they are like an ordinary back yard compared to Kings Park in Perth. 1000 acres (400 hectares) on the edge of the Swan river in the heart of Perth. It’s the biggest city park in the world.
You must take a Sydney Ferry to Taronga Zoo, Amazing zoo and Spectacular Views of Sydney and the Beautiful Harbour🥰
Good thing about visiting our wonderful City. 'Is no one packing'! ....Your safe.
Two days in Sydney?!?!?! For me I need three days just to get over jet lag! You did well for just two days and traveling with an 18 months old toddler. Amazing.
Yeah, you need to come back. Maybe when your toddler is a little older. It’ll be interesting if he’ll remember this first visit.
the key to getting over jet lag is the first day. Before you even land, set your time to the new place, and DON'T SLEEP if it's daytime when you arrive, no matter how tired you are. Stay awake until say 10pm on the first day. When you wake up in the morning, you'll be adjusted. I'm from Sydney, and used to travel a lot, so I know it works. Flew to Stockholm once, 30 hours, it was like I was high the first day from sleep deprivation lol.
If you come to Melbourne, you will indeed find the world's best coffee. Starbucks did get reasonable patronage but we love the smaller, individual coffee shops😊 Enjoy your time here guys.
Rubbish. Sydney's coffee is just as good. But Sydney has way more to offer, so we don't rely on it as an imaginary 'selling point'....
Sydney’s coffee is actually rated better than Melbournes. Top ten cities for coffee according to food and wine 2024 global tastemakers Sydney came in at number 3 with Melbourne at number 10.
Bullshit, get over yourself. Coffee's just as good in Sydney. Melbourne people are so tiresome with your constant need for attention.
@@aldunlop4622 have you got a literacy problem? That’s exactly what I said ya dope. Read again. For you,read really slowly
@@aldunlop4622 Touche! 😁
Welcome to our country. Hope you have a fabulous time 🐨
Martin Place is where they put the Christmas tree
The bird you see everywhere withe long curved beak walking around isan Ibis which we call a bin chicken as they look in binsfor food.
I call them a pain in the arse. Although the seagulls at Circular Quay are worse. One stole a whole cheeseburger out of my hand when I was walking out of Maccas lol.
@aldunlop4622 they used to love hot chips. Evolution is evolving 🤣
@@aldunlop4622 I am grateful we have birds.
Thanks for visiting us. Best city / harbour in the world. Love my Sydney.
I hope you went to Circular Quay railway station and saw the view of the Bridge and the Opera House and the ferries at the Quay from there and caught a ferry to anywhere
Lots of good Thai restaurants in Australia. The chinese part where you were is Haymarket
@16:00 if you looked left you would see a statue of Matthew Flinders and in the window behind a tiny statue of his cat Trim
The small business places ou refer to are called Cafés.
For a nice quiet pretty area with a beach take a Ferry to Manly
The fortunate of war ...the Original pubs around the rocks are cool but if you are in Paddington, head to the back street pubs for a great Sydney day vibe , Saturday the markets are on and its a good stop off on the way to or from bondi ..on the 380 bus
Congratulations for coming down under 🎉🎉🎉
The Rocks is where the convict labourers cut the sandstone for building in the time of the settlers.
Cicadas - pronounced sick-ah-dus. We don't have chain coffee shops because their coffee is shite. and we like good coffee. Starbucks went broke trying to sell us their milkshakes. Apparently they've opened up a couple of shops specifically for American tourists who don't "get" coffee.
The bugs are cicadas, crazy noisy, and loads at the moment. Please avoid Starbucks while here and enjoy the amazing coffee we have to offer. Try our classic flat white.
The 'Bugs' are mostly Cicadas.
Food & Wine publication in 2024 named Sydney as the 3rd best Coffee city in the world, Melbourne is 10th best.
I'm curious... which cities came 1st and 2nd?
@@Keyrose-my3xr Copenhagen and Tokyo.Surprisingly, San Francisco came in 3rd. I thought American coffee tasted like sh*t.
I'm from Sydney, but I'd definitely rate Melbourne first, Sydney second, Tokyo third, Milan fourth.
Sydney always trying to PISS FOR DISTANCE.
QUALITY is the best Target..
Shanghai first
Then tokyo
Then Melbourne
Wellington
Sydney
Rome
Welcome Folks, i hope you have a good and relaxed time🥰
Americans don’t seem to wear hats unless they’re useless baseball hats. All kids should wear hats in the sun. In schools it’s…no hat, no play.
haha i was stressing about the wee ranga in the botanical gardens without a hat. So ingrained in us Aussies.
Very Nice!.
Sound of Sumer is cicadas
Australia has 56 species of parrots.
Brazil has over 80.
Indonesia has 77.
@@mouyat Google tricked me.
@@martingifford5415 The funny thing is parrots and song birds originated in australia and migrated across the rest of the world later. Before that the whole world would have been quite silent
Mate, welcome to OZ. The Rocks is one of the earliest boroughs of Sydney, a bit like Brooklyn or the Bronx in NY. It was once a residential area (1800s+) that went into serious decline (a centre of all sorts of criminal gangs which were called Pushes) but has been transformed into a tourist mecca with many historic buildings saved by becoming retail or food outlets. So, yes a suburb of sorts.
Best cruise port in the world too, right in the centre of things.
And spotted the "Bin Chicken" behind you in the Botanical gardens
I’m glad you guys enjoyed yourselves in our city but I’d have thought you’d be shocked by the price of your hotel rather than the opera house. I hope you visited the Taronga zoo during your stay, spectacular views.
In Australia, the word shocked means surprised by something bad. I don't see anything in this video you should be shocked by, except for coffee at Starbucks.
And the Sydney harbour bridge is nicknamed the coat hanger and as actual fact Paul hogan used to paint it. FYI
Welcome to my beautiful home town mate. Some of the street names are named not after British streets , but after significant British persons
The Fortune of War is the is the pub you ate at
I hope you have sunscreen on the little guy.
The Fortune of War is the name of the Pub you were thinking of
No one calls anything in Sydney downtown
The Mitchell library
Shame you missed the Mathew Flinders statue and his sidekick Trim
So different looking at your home city through the eyes of a visitor.
Happy you enjoyed the city
Should have taken the ferry to Manly.
You walked past where I got married in the Botanic Gardens so I better keep watching.
The bugs are Cicadas.
Come to Hobart Tasmania , beautiful place, beautiful coffee. ☕️🥰
It's kind of odd Americans saying the coffee is ok in Sydney when US coffee has its own issues. Do they still serve that dishwater filter coffee over there?
Starbucks failed in , enjoyed your walk.
THEY ARE CALLED CICADES .....SERIOUSLY 😝
Cicadas (bugs) They make that noise by rubbing their legs together. I live at Bangaroo. Thats my Hood ! Nice Vid, hope you enjoyed yr stay. It's a beautiful city. BARcycle ! Thats where I get my filafel rolls from !
I think the pub was the Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel in Kent Street.
Fortune of War
The Harbour Bridge is similar to the Hellgate Bridge in New York.
Dude you’re in Chinatown that’s why there’s lots of Asian shops and restaurants lol. You guys walked pretty far, usually people go up a couple streets to walk down George St or catch the light rail from the harbour to where you had lunch… but can’t be helped since you’re staying at Hyatt I guess. What most tourists don’t realise about Sydney is if you think the outside of buildings and places look nice, try going inside. It’s like metro, looks shabby on the outside but massive on the inside. A lot of popular places are like that in Sydney, usually gardens at the back inside. Safe travels!
Good luck.Shitney is more Shanghai these days.
"Not many Starbucks". Starbucks opened here with huge fanfares about how they'd introduce espresso coffee to Australia and similar boasting remarks. They failed. While there may be one or 2 left in areas where US business visitors go, all the other stores closed. Why? Australians like good espresso coffee in the Italian style, having been introduced to that by Italian migrants arriving just after WW II - that's not the style of coffee Starbucks offers. We like buying our coffee at a small and familiar shop where we are known to the staff and they are known to us. Again, that's not an experience Starbucks provides. What you will find is a large number of small coffee shops/bars, which is where we go.
The thing is most Aussies order a flat white which isn't really Italian style coffee.
@@glennoc8585 I'd have thought that the most popular order (at least around here in suburban Sydney) was for a cappuccino. No idea how authentically Italian it is.
We don’t call parts of the city 'neighbourhoods' - that is more for the suburbs
The long legged white bird is called the Ibis
The pub you mentioned would be the Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel in Kent St, Sydney. Horatio Nelson defeated the combined French & Spanish navies at Trafalgar on October 21, 1805, at the height of the Napoleonic wars.
It was the Fortune of War, he put up a photo of it. Oldest Pub in Sydney.
The boar statue in front of the hospita was actually to mark the location of the first bore that resulted in fresh water for the British settlers.
@@shanegates678 that’s interesting, thanks!
It’s a replica of Il Porcelino - the famous boar sculpture in Florence . It was a gift to commemorate a father and son who were surgeons at that hospital in the Boer War and WW1. Money thrown into the foundation goes to help fund the hospital and it was installed in 1968. Bathurst Street isn’t named after a street in the UK, it’s named after Earl Bathurst, who was Secretary for the Colonies in the 1810s and 1820s.
@@RoamingMarketer I apologise for the BS you were fed by some uncouth scoundrel.
What a load of garbage you write. The sculpture was a gift to the City of Sydney from the Marchesa Fiaschi Torrigiani, who donated the artwork in 1968, It has nothing to do with a water source, which by the way would be a bore, not a boar.
@@shanegates678 What? Wrong word. Boar. Bore. Where did you go to school?
Sydney close to Asia? Its 8 hours to Jakarta & 10 hours to Bangkok. So its not really that close!!😁
It's all relative. Australia is certainly closer to South East Asia than it is to Europe and North America.
What the hell?? War??? With Britain?? The Rocks is the first area built upon when the convicts arrived here. 1776.
No mention of the free bikes to get us around
We got rid of Starbucks as they made crap coffee and no one went. Enjoy our cafes. The best. We don't like chains.
There's nothing quite like an Australian exert at being so expert in the comments section. So it's over to you guys.
In Australia, Starbucks is what we feed to tourists who don't know any better. There are a couple of interesting YTs that go into why Starbucks's attempt to enter the Australian market was a gigantic failure. Basically, it comes down tp Australia having a very well-developed coffee culture post-ww2, fuelled by immigrants from Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries.
Most Australians wouldn't feed Starbucks #### to a dog, or to their worst enemy. Well, MAYBE to their worst enemy. :)
The Rocks were one of the first distinct areas in the very early colonial period, for most of its history it was a very poor area, now much gentrified and tourist oriented. The Rocks apparently had the offical gallows used for public executions until about the 1820’s.
Why would you want to drink Starbucks coffee? They shut down most of their shops because Aussies wouldn't drink that crap.
well done.
2 days far too short to even begin exploring Sydney, hope you come back for at least a week!
Two days and saw nothing. Sad 😔
The pub was The Hero of Waterloo
The Fortune of War
Try and fit Port Macquarie into your trip.
I know it is hard but try to walk on the left side of the walkway.
Pub was The Hero of Waterloo?
Well Melburnians like to boast that they have the best coffee, but the Flat White was invented here in Sydney. There is amazing coffee Australia wide & you will find that all our cities are clean
You missed Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay
For me the shocking part was that Ichi-Ban Teppanyaki is still there 21:55
Sydney’s OK… but it’s not Perth… 😉
The Earth's distance from the sun in December is closer than it is in July and August because the Earth's orbit is elliptical… hats and sunscreen are a good idea, esp. for kids. Sunburn can happen in 10 to 15 minutes here.
What would surprise many about the Opera House are the levels below ground. At this time of the year, the Earth is at its closest to the Sun and the Earth tilts on its axis causing the Northern Hemisphere Winter and exposing Australia to Summer UV rays never experienced in the Northern Hemisphere. I come from a family of “Copper Tops” and blondes, 30 minutes in the sun can burn us badly so I would suggest a hat for your little one. I know you would have used sunscreen, but ear tips are often missed and my husband has had skin cancer on his ears (he is English so very pale).
I was thinking the same thing . I am not trying to be smart. The sun is fierce in our summer in Sydney.
7:10 The Fortune of War
The best part of Sydney is the roads leading out of it.
Let me guess, you are Mexican right? Go and play some aerial ping pong.
Because they also lead into the heavenly place.
You're from Melbourne, huh?
Sydney is beautiful, wouldn't live anywhere else on earth.
Have seen the bats at dusk that come out. They are fruit bats.theyare everywhere in Australia and are big too.
Had a German friend over , chilling after sunset on the balcony with a beer he asked me about dangerous animals ,
I told him it was a legend , a bit of care and everything is OK , just then the biggest fruit-bat I ever saw flew by so close we could have touched it
he freaked out , thinking they were some kind of vampire
@sparkyfromel should have run with that and don't forget the drop bears and hoops snakes too.
You were in darling harbour.. why didn't you go to China town ..walking distance from you??
The Sydney Harbour bridge is a copy of a US bridge, they look absolutely identical.
You should have kept going along Macquarie Street to Hyde Park.
Just watching your last couple of vlogs, and gotta point out the standard American tourist mistake...... walking down the right hand side of the footpath 😂
Go and watch again and will suddenly strikes you how obvious it was that you were walking into the crowd wherever you went 😅
I hope you were all wearing lots of sunscreen!
Sadly you should have spent more time here.