After freshening up we were taken on a tour along the coast where we walked around Bondi and Bronte. It was a crisp but sunny winter day and the coastline was spectacular. We were both experiencing full-on ‘reverse culture shock’ being back in a very upmarket and expensive district, seeing all the extortionate modern apartments, flash cars, cafes, boutique shops and restaurants, with joggers running along the beach with their iPods and the many people out for a walk wearing all their expensive clothes, sporting their Luis Vuitton handbags and expensive sunglasses. It caused a mixed set of emotions......on the one hand we were very excited and pleased to be back in such normality but on the other, it was a sudden reminder that we had truly finished our time in South America and just how different life is for some people. Everything suddenly appeared extremely materialistic and in stark contrast to what we had seen throughout South America and we actually missed it.We later headed to Watson’s Bay for fish and chips and from our table we had magnificent views across the harbour to the city, the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Ash enjoyed his first Aussie beer but we could not get over how expensive everything was. After spending $3 for a burger/fish and chips in South America, $20 each felt like daylight robbery and boy did we go on about it! We didn't last too much longer as the jet lag caught up with us so by early afternoon we flaked and fell asleep for a few hours, only to be woken by the smell of a good ole Aussie BBQ for dinner!
On Monday we were up early and ventured out for our first English Full Breakfast (which we had promised ourselves as a treat one morning as we ate stale bread in Bolivia!). However, we were so horrified at the prices being charged for breakfast in all the cafes that we ended up buying a fresh juice and a Danish from the local bakery. We happily sat and ate our breakfast on the beach! We spent the rest of the day with Bi's dad who was in Sydney for the day. Bi has not seen her family for 18 months now so it was really nice to see her dad. He took us out for lunch on the beachfront (again we were complaining left, right and centre about how expensive everything was!) and then we all headed into the city centre to do some shopping. At the end of the day Bi's Dad drove us back to Coogee and in the evening we took our hosts out for a Thai dinner to thank them for having us.
On Tuesday we were up early and packed ready for our lunchtime flight to Nadi, Fiji. 
We crumbled and decided that we would splash out on a full breakfast so we treated ourselves to what has to have been the most enormous cooked breakfast either of us have ever eaten... but it was heaven! We don't think that it will be any trouble piling back on all the weight we lost in South America.... much to Bi's disappointment (she is desperately trying to keep it off but it's not working!. At 10ish we took a taxi to the airport and boarded an enormous 747 chock full of Aussie tourists and screaming children for the 3 hour flight to Fiji. We have never seen an airline serve out so much beer in all our flying experience!
We crumbled and decided that we would splash out on a full breakfast so we treated ourselves to what has to have been the most enormous cooked breakfast either of us have ever eaten... but it was heaven! We don't think that it will be any trouble piling back on all the weight we lost in South America.... much to Bi's disappointment (she is desperately trying to keep it off but it's not working!. At 10ish we took a taxi to the airport and boarded an enormous 747 chock full of Aussie tourists and screaming children for the 3 hour flight to Fiji. We have never seen an airline serve out so much beer in all our flying experience!
