{"id":858,"date":"2013-05-29T02:18:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T01:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/?p=858"},"modified":"2013-06-15T09:46:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T08:46:52","slug":"sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/2013\/05\/29\/sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I got to Sydney on a comfortable if not slightly boring train ride from Canberra. The train arrived on time, got cleaned and after a friendly (and talkative) train network operator man sold me a ticket, the train departed. The train had everything; comfy seats, lots of space and cheap food. I had a salmon wrap and fruit salad, which was relatively inexpensive, given the prices elsewhere in Australia. I got to Sydney several hours later and began my search for a hostel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I decided to go for another recommendation from the guy on the India Pacific train, which hadn&#8217;t been bad so far. Before that though, I decided to check out one YHA hostel that I had seen advertised in Canberra, but the suffocating dullness and that fact that they treated you more as business opportunities and not paying guests put me off. I went to that bloke&#8217;s recommendation, which was in the red light district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I spent 2 days in Sydney, exploring the harbour area and the city itself. Most things I seemed to do seemed to revolve around the harbour area, which included the Vivid digital art\/light festival, walking and going to the theatre. I went to enquire about visas to Taiwan, went in search of theatre tickets and walked around the Royal Botanic Gardens, watching the sun set over the harbour bridge. It seemed a fitting way to end my trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to Sydney on a comfortable if not slightly boring train ride from Canberra. The train arrived on time, got cleaned and after a friendly (and talkative) train network operator man sold me a ticket, the train departed. The train had everything; comfy seats, lots of space and cheap food. I had a salmon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world-part-1"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}