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I love Sydney.

I decided on half-random, half Cardiff-Bay-has-nice-restaurants-so-maybe-Darling-Harbour-will-too basis to head for the harbour in my search for food. This was mostly an excellent decision - there were so many nice restaurants - and also a bad decision - so many nice restaurants that I took almost an hour to pick one.

I liked the look of the beautiful Asian restaurant I passed first but in the name of exploration walked all the way around the harbour to check out what was on offer. Along the way I got mistaken for someone called Sarah by an extremely cute guy (I didn't say "For you baby, I could be" in a Shrek's Puss in Boots tone but I was tempted), dashed the hopes of a lovely Japanese waiter who tried to tempt me into his restaurant (alas it was mostly fish, which I mostly avoid), almost fell into a bizarre water feature that I can't believe health and safety let them get away with, but that's all the prettier for the insanity (I'll take pictures in the daylight when it'll show up better) and was almost tempted into two restaurants that had nothing else to endear them (one was pretty but almost empty, which was odd when everywhere else was packed and the other was on a boat which is cool but it was mostly full of old people and looked surprisingly dull) because they were serving kangaroo steaks. In the end the beautiful Asian restaurant won and I walked all the way back, bypassing even Starbucks. I'm glad I did because the food (duck with vermicelli rice) was delicious and cost less than £10 which was... surprising but awesome. The staff were lovely too.

I think most of the restaurants I passed would've been good though. Cardiff Bay, possibly my favourite place in the world before now, has nothing on Darling Harbour. Okay so it edged towards tacky in places but still, awesome.

I also stopped at a convenience store and bought water and TimTams, but forgot milk. Dammit. At least I have tea, coffee and limited sugar though; I can get milk tomorrow. After I go to the Aquarium, I think. The Zoo is tempting but I'm thinking I might try it Friday. There's a leaflet I just found with how to get there and ferry prices.

One thing is certain though; I won't be sticking to my 'don't get any more money out in Sydney' attempt, because just looking at the admission fees for everywhere is burning holes in my wallet. However, I just checked my bank account and I have an extra £100 that I wasn't expecting so... whatever. Go nuts.

I love Sydney already. I really do.

(The other girl in my room, Yona, is actually Korean and is a *student*. She's living in a hostel while being a student. I'm so in awe because holy crap, was I a coddled and pampered student in comparison. She's really nice.)

(I just went to tag this post and for some reason 'Sam tyler' is already typed in the tag bar. Wtf? My keyboard must've jumped and it autotyped it maybe but... seriously, wtf?)