Maybe - maybe - drive South out of Sydney towards Canberra and if the snow conditions are amazing and we're not too tired we may try to get a day of skiing in at Charlotte Pass etc. Or just see the coast and wine region. I've played around with arriving in Perth as an alternative, or Brisbane and then using the low cost airlines to move around.
I was told to not bother with Sydney in July as the weather gets much better in August. Haven't yet gone into accommodation or anything else beyond a rough pricing up. But I'm aware this place is generally well-travelled, erudite and contains some Aussies! So, any pointers? Ideas of what to do? I'll also say when we arrived, it sleeted in Sydney in November :o.
I raced in Armidale, NSW in My travelling time from Edinburgh was less than the guy who drove down from Cairns. It took him 25hrs of driving just to get out of Queensland! There's loads and loads of really nice places there but I would avoid the cities and the obvious tourist traps. Sydney for instance is fine, but a city is a city, go and see stuff you can't see elsewhere - the wildlife, the landscapes and the plants, even if you've no interest in plants it's so different it feels like being in a sci-fi film just wandering around.
As does the sky, I know next to nothing about stars, I can recognise the plough and Orion here and that's about it, but it's totally different there, really weird, again like being on an alien world. I went over the harbour bridge for example as I needed to to get somewhere, interesting as bridges go but found it much less interesting than the one in Arnham, which I made a special detour to see. Much better to just go somewhere pretty and off the beaten track and see what happens.
I've been three times Armidale and also Canberra twice, flew to Sydney all three times and the things which stick in my mind are things like finding an echidna and it sitting on my foot to groom itself, which was really special or an emu trying to steal my lunch.
