Today, we take a bus trip through town.

Bus tour day.  We got breakfast at the small restaurant on the ground floor.

The meeting place was Sydney’s Hyde Park at the Archibald Fountain.  It is a very nice fountain.  The park is surrounded by the city.  Sydney is a city where buildings have multiple basements and subways crisscrossing between them.  The park has multiple subways under it running several directions.

The guide met our group of about 40 people and we loaded onto the bus.

We had a funny and well informed driver.  He took us to several great spots to take pictures of the Opera house, bridge, some rock “chair”, a few light houses, the ocean and entrance to Sydney bay, and last Bondi beach.

Nice ride.

We decided to try the downtown mall for lunch at the food court.  Well it is 3 floors up and 2 down from the ground floor.  Enormous! With every store for the extremely rich you could imagine. Prada, Rolex, Balenciaga, Versace, GUCCI, … and a lot of really expensive stores that I did not even recognize at all. Those stores had door opener/security people.  I doubt we would even be allowed past the door and that does not bother me at all.

After lunch, we got back to the ground level and found a cab.  It was not a good choice as he immediately tried to rip us off with a ridiculous fair to get back to the hotel.  He wanted $60 Australian. We let him know that was more than twice what we had paid on other trips. Then we started back and forth on the price.  The lowest he would take was $40 cash.  Still more than our most expensive trip but we needed to rest more than having to get another cab and by that time we were in a location that that may have been hard to get.

Time to pack for the plane trip and rest for the long day tomorrow.