sydney4
12/16/05
Our place in Sydney
When we arrived in Sydney a week ago, I booked a corporate apartment
for our first week in Australia. It was a one bedroom apartment with a
Darling Harbor view. With the holidays approaching I found similar in
price to any hotel in the city, with the addition of a kitchen and
living room.
The down side is there is no daily maid service, but all the other
amenities were there like a health spa and pool without nearly as many
people using them,
The view was not exactly over the center of Darling Harbor, but rather
towards the end where some of the passenger ships load. It was still
nice to have a balcony ovcrlooking the water, with a change in sunset
sky every night,
Since it was coming to the end of our first week in Sydney, we took the
train out to a section of town called Redfern to see our new place to
stay for the next three weeks. Redfern is not as nice as some of the
other parts of Sydney, but perfectly fine for a couple of New Yorkers.
It remided me a lot of an area of Brooklyn we used to live in where a
mix of nationalities and income level form a neighborhood that is close
the city, but was once a seedy part of town.
I'll write about the apartment and how we came to find it later, but
first let me show you the trains. They're double decker affairs with
under and above ground service. They have a feel and design from the
70s or 80s, but I'm not sure when they were made. We only took it out
to Redfern, but hope to try them out some more in the next few weeks.
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