{"id":652,"date":"2008-01-28T10:57:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T10:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2008\/01\/28\/sydney\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T10:57:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T10:57:23","slug":"sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2008\/01\/28\/sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last stop before leaving Australia was Sydney.  I had a couple of days to wander around and see the sights, trying to avoid spending too much money (I was way over budget by this point).<\/p>\n<p>Here are the standard ones: the Harbour Bridge (complete with some people doing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgeclimb.com\/\">BridgeClimb<\/a>) and the Opera House (the foyer reminded me very much of a 1970s dull and gloomy concrete shopping centre &mdash; the pre-refit Thistle Centre in Stirling being a fine example).<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Australia\/Sydney\/SydneyHarbourBridge_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Australia\/Sydney\/SydneyHarbourBridge_t.jpg\" title=\"Sydney Harbour Bridge.\" alt=\"A coathanger-like steel bridge crosses a harbour.  A ferry is to the right of the foreground.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Australia\/Sydney\/SydneyOperaHouse_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Australia\/Sydney\/SydneyOperaHouse_t.jpg\" title=\"Sydney Opera House.\" alt=\"A building made of what look like large, white concrete shells sits beside a harbour.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also went for a tour around the city on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marge_vs._the_Monorail\">monorail<\/a>.  Although it consists of a single one-way loop it actually has a driver taking up the whole front carriage, reducing passenger space quite a bit.  I&#8217;m guessing the unions had something to do with that as it looks like a prime candidate for automation.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Australia\/Sydney\/Monorail_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Australia\/Sydney\/Monorail_t.jpg\" title=\"The Sydney monorail crossing Pyrmont Bridge at Darling Harbour.\" alt=\"In front of skyscrapers a monorail train approaches a station.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leaving Sydney was easy, there&#8217;s a fast and frequent rail service from Central station &mdash; about five minutes walk from where I was staying &mdash; in comfortable double-decker trains.  My flight departure was delayed a bit though, they&#8217;d lost power to the gate so the staff had to process us manually and light our way down the airbridge with torches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last stop before leaving Australia was Sydney. I had a couple of days to wander around and see the sights, trying to avoid spending too much money (I was way over budget by this point). Here are the standard ones: the Harbour Bridge (complete with some people doing the BridgeClimb) and the Opera House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-rtw","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}