Category: Travel

Here is what jumps out to a couple of Americans visiting Sydney.

1. Unlike in the US, the “El Camino” car format remains alive and well here. I (TP) consider that a good thing, JMP is unconvinced.
2. We know that Mod Oz cuisine is great and all (our dinner at est. in 2006 was a top-3 dinner for us, probably rivaled only by Pacific’s Edge and the Kitchen), but we are traveling with a toddler so we can’t eat at a proper good restaurant. For our purposes, a pie with mash, peas, and gravy is the perfect food. Not that EP will eat it, but it’s at least portable.
3. If we had a beachfront house in Manly or Watsons Bay we would never ever leave it.
4. We do not know how to order a regular coffee. We know how to order something close to it (a “long black,” which is a double espresso with hot water, close to what we call an Americano in the US) but it’s unclear if drip coffee even exists here. (If you ask for a coffee you they will say “you want a latte?”)
5. We know that rugby union is considered to be the superior sport by true fans, but I just think that rugby  league is infinitely superior from the perspective of the spectator.
6. It is amazing to think that as new as everything in the East Coast of the US is, everything in Sydney is at least 50 years younger.

The Surf at Watsons Bay