Friday, 27 March 2015

Harbour Bridge and Afternoon Tea


The best thing about Sydney is that there’s a Higgins in it. This girl is an absolute dream and I got to spend a whole delicious week in her company!

Before I arrived, Luce had very cryptically asked me to ‘reserve Friday’ for a surprise, and was given no instructions other than to wear covered shoes, and was just told that I would be breathalised!! So I caught the ferry from Manly where I’d spent the night and met her at Hungry Jacks in Circular Key at 8.15am for my surprise. And what a surprise! We were walking over Harbour Bridge!! I have to mention 4 more very special people here as this was an early Birthday present for me from my wonderful Uni ladies, Luce, Cat, Sarah, Sara and Emily-you lot are legends, thank you!! What an awesome pressie! :)

So we were whisked off, breathalised, dressed in crazy jump suits, shoes (turns out my shoes were still illegal so I was given a very trendy substitute), baseball caps, hankies (?!!!) and factor 30 sunscreen (they do love their health and safety, the Ozzies) and off we set in tow of Romeo (yes Romeo) our very Australian guide (think Steve Irwin. On a bridge). The climb was great-it actually goes pretty high and you get spectacular views over the harbour. We also learnt a lot about it, including the fact that 16 people died during construction, and that the 4 granite towers on either side of the bridge are simply there for show, to make it look more sturdy. Romeo has taken more than 3000 trips up the tower, but I asked him how many celebrities he’d taken up and he said none L Apparently 1D went up the other day though, BZL (Before Zane Left), and also apparently you can get married up there. Who knew?!





When we’d finished, Luce treated me to an incredibly scrumptious Afternoon Tea in a very fancy restaurant. It was insanely good and I drank faaaaar too much tea and ALL of my cakes. YUM!




Let me tell you a little about this lady. Within 24 hours of being in Sydney she’d got me to play a game of netball and attend a 7.30am F45 fitness class cos that’s what she does. She is a machine-she plays for 3 netball teams, takes fitness classes, has an incredible “I-want-one-of-those” job (called something like Chief Fancy Clever Cloggs Sub-Editor) at New Idea Magazine (like Australia’s Heat Magazine), she is without doubt one of the most warm, sociable and friendly people I know, and also one of the most loved, probably because she is such an incredible caring and loyal friend, and I am very lucky to have her in my life. Aren’t lucky to spend a whole week with her?!

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