Took ferry to Darling Harbour today. Started with a visit to Sydney Wildlife World to see some cuddly koalas and wallabies (and some not so cuddly individuals too of course). We'd kept this particular visit til today as it happily coincided with the Thai Food Festival in the adjacent park. With ten of Sydney's Top Thai Dins parading their wares, chicken satays and fish cakes aplenty were munched in lieu of lunch [Iain says: with the now hard to find black sports mixture gums for afters from the local UK sweet shop - could it get much better?]. Purely as it was such a gorgeous day and view again, cocktails on the Cockle Bay Wharf then back in time for a quick buffet dinner at our hotel's Mix restaurant and a change before today's main event.. the princess of pop... The Homecoming... Kylie.
Andie was worried for Kylie's health and didn't think she should be back on stage so soon. Iain pointed out that Andie most likely wouldn't have bought her new perfume yesterday had she not. Kylie does look older and somewhat drawn though for her to be there at all is the most remarkable thing. The show was, indeed, a show albeit slowed down from it's previous incarnation that Andie had made us watch the night before. Bono - publicity shy singer from the Irish band U2 - turned up to do Robbie's part in Kids. We think he dingied Especially For You. I guess you don't get to see Bonio and Kylie duet every day. In Sydney.
Final thoughts on Sydney. Wonderful place for a City Break, just not worth a 22 hour flight. In fairness, we didn't - and never intended to - go and see the Blue Mountains and so on to get the full flavour of Aus.
