Day 2: City Lights

A quiet day was planned to relax after the flight and to get over the jetlag, and that is exactly what it turned out to be - a very quiet day.

Much of it in fact was spent in the hostel playing about on the Internet, whilst Emma did a good chunk of the course work she has had to bring with her. We thought if she could get as much of it done asap, then it wouldn't be hanging over us for the rest of the holidays.

After noticing that we hadn't moved far all day, one of the members of staff suggested that we take a break, a bottle of wine and a taxi, and head up to King's Park to watch the sun set over the city.

But there was course work to complete and first drafts to be emailed to school, so that didn't happen. It was almost dark when we decided we really should head out, and so that same member of staff suggested we take a six pack of tinnies and a taxi, and head to King's Park to sit and watch the city lights.

As he seemed determined to get us there we decided it would be rude to do otherwise. And off to King's Park we headed, though with sandwiches from Subway rather than a 6 pack.

And he was right - an amazing sight and well worth the trip. Pity we hadn't taken a 'proper' camera with us (will go back another night for that). So, the pic above is taken on the compact. And there are some more shots of Flickr (linked from the right hand menu) of us just messing about with the lights.

A quick walk around some of the park in the dark, and then back for an earlyish night, via the ice cream stall.

Cheryl xx