One of many perks of being an airline pilot is having time without work. I used to be capable of accomplish all of my flying within the first 10 days of the month, leaving your entire remainder of the month off for exploring the world. Oana and I made a decision to go to Australia. We flew on United on a 787 in Economic system Plus to Melbourne, after which flew as much as Sydney on a ZED fare on Qantas. ZED is an acronym for Zonal Worker Low cost. Additionally known as an ID90 as a result of it’s a fare that’s discounted roughly 90%. We ended up paying about $30USD every to fly to Sydney from Melbourne.
Sydney is thought for 2 issues. One is the Sydney Opera Home, which deserves its personal weblog publish. The opposite is the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which is the world’s widest lengthy span bridge on the planet.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge has a climb the place you may stroll alongside the highest of the bridge. The price of the climb was going to be about $200 every, so we determined to skip it and simply stroll throughout the pedestrian a part of the bridge. There are nice views from the bridge of town, in addition to the Opera Home. When you get to the opposite facet, you may stroll again, or simply take the ferry.
We additionally took the ferry over to Manly Seaside, which is a extremely popular seashore in Sydney. On the best way again, we took this image of town.
There are additionally a string of seashores simply east of Sydney. The town sits in a harbor, so its not on the ocean like San Francisco is. A greater comparability can be how Oakland sits on the San Francisco Bay. When you get out to the coast, there are miles of coastal strolling trails connecting all of the seashores. You possibly can actually stroll for hours alongside the paved paths. We noticed a bunch of individuals on bikes and skates as properly. The general public gave the impression to be locals having fun with the attractive summer season climate.
One cool seashore we discovered, Bondi Seaside, had this superb out of doors pool. We have been impressed sufficient by it so we took an image. We didn’t discover out till later that this pool is probably the most photographed pool on the planet. Its known as Bondi Icebergs, and there’s a lap pool in addition to a leisure pool.
There may be a lot to see and do in Sydney and the encompassing space. I believe our favourite was the tour of the Opera Home, in addition to simply strolling alongside the seashores.
Within the subsequent 12 months or two I shall be transitioning from the Boeing 757/767 that I presently fly to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and going to Sydney and Melbourne may turn out to be frequent occurrences. Bringing Oana on these journeys shall be a excessive precedence, if the layover is lengthy sufficient.