Darling Harbour

After doing their tour to the north of the east coast, Laura and Andi arrived in Sydney. Of course they woke up at ungodly hours like 9 am or something and we stayed in bed until 12, so on their second day we agreed to meet some time in the afternoon.

Diana and me got out at the Central Station which was a bit farther away than where we wanted to go because we wanted to walk through the city. We stopped at a hostel to pick up some tourism flyers (they have the biggest selections), we went through a mall (not very interesting), through China Town (more interesting, but yet to eat there) and we eventually arrived at Darling Quarter. We exchanged some messages with our friends who were still busy with sunsets at the Opera or whatever. We decided to meet at Darling Quarter but there was still plenty of time until they arrived so we moved on. We were not prepared.

Bam!

The whole thing is spectucalar, it feels big and open and the restaurants look great and there is the water in between and there are people walking and sitting and the music is not too loud. We wanted to try kangaroo steak for the first time, so we went looking for a restaurant that offered it.

Boom!

We found a restaurant called Cyren which not only had a menu item with kangaroo in it, it was also with mashed sweet potato, my new favourite. The atmosphere was great, the food was also great, my vocabulary is not so great and needs extending. The desserts were also great and of course I picked the best one.

I couldn't decide which of the three photos to use so I posted all three.

The next day was the last day of our friends in Australia, so we met once again at the harbour to laugh at them for going back to cold Germany.  We all cried a litte, they gave us their all-day pass for a visit in the Chinese Garden and then we didn't have any more use for them so we sent them away.

On that day there was also a Thai festival at the harbour. We visited that first, ate some very sad Pad Thai and made our way to the Chinese Garden, since it was only a hundred meters away.

CHINAA GARDEEN!

It was beautiful but my expectation was one of tranquility which was destroyed by the view of the skyscrapers all around and the sound of the traffic including some horns now and then. At the end of our round we found some tables where you are able to drink tea but they also had other drinks on offer. I had a white brownie (huh?) and a vanilla shake that were so tremendous that I forgot about the dissapointing meal earlier.

It's been a while and we haven't been at the Darling Harbour since. We dumb.