Sept 15 - Great Coastal Walk Bondi to Coogee

Started off early again and after breakfast went straight to the train station. Zipped over to Bondi Junction and walked to Bondi beach. Bondi is pretty cool looking and reminds me of what the Amalfi coast in Italy looks like (with the beach, waves and hillside houses crammed together). Watched people surfing for a while and now I think I will barely need a lesson to be surfing waves better than the chicks in Blue Crush. It was a nice day so we figured may as well do the Great Coastal Walk from Bondi to Coogee. It was about 7 km one way and we passed several other beaches including Tamarama, Bronte and Cloverly. Each had a different feel to it. After a winding up and down trail through cliffs and valleys and beaches, we finally got to Coogee and stopped for some lunch. Had a tasty Lamb gyros wrap with fries, which is spelled yeeros here (spelled phonetically I guess is the idea behind it) and they call their fries "chips." We didn't really want to walk the difficult trail all the way back to Bondi now, so instead we cut through the city streets, which somehow ended up being uphill about 95% of the way back to the train station. Got back 'home' and went to Woolworth's for some more food for dinner/brekkie (that's what they say instead of breakfast, even on menus). Ate supper, watched some TV and called it a night again. Made it til 10:30 tonight though, so maybe one day soon I'll crack the midnight mark! Oh, also booked 2 nights starting tomorrow in the Blue Mountains, which I think are about 120 KMs east of Sydney, and yet the train ticket there is still just $7.80, whereas the airport to the hostel (a few KMs) was over $15. Scams. Blue Mountains have a cold forecast for the next few days (around 10 Celcius), so might have to bundle up a bit if we are going to put in as many KMs as the first 3 days here.