Day 1 in Australia

Day 1 in Australia.

Today my flight arrived at 7:30 am, after a long flight from Beijing.

In the Airport they picked me up for baggage inspection, and I am guessing it is going to common thing as I would be flying from one place to another. I am a suspicious guy, firstly I travel alone, secondly I don't know people in Australia, or at least I don't have their contacts. Secondly,  I was coming from a flight from China.
So they started to ask me things, about the trip, what I was going to do, etc, to try to see if I was answering normally or if I was giving any hint of being nervous, then the baggage inspection started, with more of the same things, questions of everything, what where each medicine for, etc. Even they asked me who I was buying the magnetos for. It was done in a fine corterous way , but if a Spanish "Guardia Civil" would have asked him it would have sound so nice.

Anyway, I went through fine, Only that I had to expend more time than I was planning on the airport. 

Took the Airport shuttle and went to the hostel. It is fairly basic, but looks clean. A bit away from the train Station, for it is ok for the purpose, with a barbecue area in the top floor, Air conditioning in the room and a small bridge. My room happen to be facing the train rails so it might be noisy at night, but considering that I am about 50 hours without a proper sleeping I don't think I would care that much.

Today after having a shower, unpacking and a coffee, I head to the city center. First thing was to get enough maps to get me oriented and then start visiting the city center area, with of course the Sydney Opera as the main focus area. I walked a lot, about 6 hours non stop, from one place to another, including Sydney Bridge, the Rock, Botanic garden, Town hall, Various parks, etc...

The first inconvenient is that most of the things finished at 4 pm, and found a couple of places closed. It didn't matter that much since I was more in a getting of the city mood. I also managed to find a Vodafone shop to buy a prepaid card. It took me a while to find out, but just found myself that I walk around the area with many of these shops, but didn't go through them. In any case, I managed to get the phone so now I am not going to be utterly robbed whenever I have to use the phone.

By 6 pm I was totally exhausted, bought something and head back to the hotel. The plans for the night were originally trying to go to the Basement for a Jazz concert, but considering how exhausted I am, I cannot guarantee being able to stay awake through out it, so I have decided, to update the blog, and plan tomorrow trip. which is likely to be another exhausted day (ferry's to various places, and probably Zoo).

By the way, no sight of Kalie around, yet.