City Walk

Our next adventure was to take the boys on the bus to Darling Harbour and walk along the Rocks and end up at the Harbour Bridge and Opera House. It was meant to be a cool cloudy day but as we are finding out here the weather forecast is often wrong. The only sensible thing to do is to wear factor 50 every day and a hat. Otherwise you burn your scalp and your nose, I speak from experience

Buses are great in the city, pretty much where ever you want to go you can go and every other bus on the route has disabled access so easy for our monster pushchair, this is now my main mode of transport now Nick is working fulltime.

We walked to outskirts of Darling Harbour and were greeted by a fun park for children and glitzy high rise offices.

Darling Harbour has the Sydney Aquarium, Maritime Museum and some very swanky restaurant and boats moored. It also has a massive IMAX cinema ( never been to one, not sure what it is but maybe will find out some day).

As we left Darling Harbour we trekked up a road called the hungry mile, we soon found out whyas the boys decided that they were similtaneously hungry and thirsty and both in need of wees, fun!!. The walk was worth it as we wandered through another beautiful quay with plush apartments, the final one presented this view of the Harbour Bridge, amazing...

It was incredible to watch the bridge walk people high above on the arch of the harbour bridge, something I would love to do. Oliver was most impressed with the size of the bolts as we walked underneath.

After passing beneath the bridge you enter Circular Quay and from here you can catch ferries to the North Shore, Manly, Taronga Zoo etc. You also get fabulous views of the Opera House, which is where these pics were taken.

Our walk ended after climbing the steps of the Opera House and walking through Sydneys botannical gardens. A total of six kilometres with Oliver in tow on foot and he didnt whine. Can you believe it. I think that the enormity of everything stunned him.