28.09-01.10.2018

We are leaving Cairns and probably also the easy going of rural life in Australia and preparing for 3 days in the world metropolis Sydney. 

Our hotel Habour Rocks is located in the district The Rocks, Sydney's oldest and formerly a poor district, from where we can see the Bay with Habour Bridge and Opera just around the corner. 

In the afternoon, we walk along the promenade and familiarize ourselves with the area. There are so many people here, especially Asians. The large ocean liners also dock here. Every morning, there is a new cruise liner at anchor, by the way, right in the city, which then sets sail again with a lot of fuss and noise in the afternoon and disappears into the open sea on its way to the next destination.

The opera house is about a 10-minute walk away, where we climb the steps and look around in search of the main entrance to the concert halls, because we have concert tickets for tomorrow.

We return to the hotel and have dinner at the Oriental Hotel next door, to then experience how the district unfolds its nightlife and lives up to its name. Across from the hotel, the girls in high heels are waiting in line, dressed up to the nines, with their companions - just as dressed up - in line. Taxis constantly arrive, spitting out more cheerful twens. The security only allows as many people into the party zone as have left the Carre before. We don't join the queue, we don't have the right outfit with us, and - there is face control, oh no.

So we return to the hotel, have a nightcap in the hotel bar, where good music from the 90s is playing, and fall into a deep sleep.

On the next day, equipped with an Opal card for public transport, we take the ferry from Circular Quay to Manly Beach. We take one last look back at the Opera House and Harbour Bridge and drive through many neighborhoods of the metropolis - Sydney is a city that is located almost directly on the sea everywhere.