Drink too much with Darwin

So the best advice I can offer, fickle as it maybe, is go on and have fling with Perth, drink too much with Darwin, wine and dine Adelaide, go wild with Brisbane and enjoy a quiet night in with Melbourne. By all means chill out with Cook Town and Cape Trib and party all night with Alice but stay away from Sydney. Sow any wild oats that need to be sowed before you introduce yourself.

East Coast of Australia

Cook Town

You've a few options. The East Coast has a well beaten track for tourists and travellers. If you make it up to Cook Town you will start with a sense of 'the real Australia' whatever that is. If its still there, stay a Roses hostel and seriously chill. Further south Cape Tribulation is possibly one of the most beautiful places you'll ever see with the reef meeting the sea. Cairns has much party but little beach.

Whitsundays

Whitsundays for a lazy few days or weeks sailing and island hopping, Fraser Island much further south for clean salt lakes, dingoes, 4WDs and sand everywhere. Bryon Bay gets you into NSW. Bryon is where we'd all love to spend the summer if only we could find somewhere to park. Port Stephens is for dolphins and Hunter Valley for wine and oops you're staggered into Sydney.

Western Australia

Go West! What about Perth(?), Well there's Rottnest Island cutest rats (Quokas) you'll ever see, Margaret River for good looking wine, The Pinnacles - outstanding, admia the monkey dolphins, Bungle Bungles more spiritual than Ayers Rock(?) and certainly less crowded, the Gibb River Road if we only we had the time and then Darwin and Kakadu and Catherine Gorge and its all too much and too beautiful and I need that drink Darwin.

Sydney Calling

Yet all the while she beckons. You'll hear her name, in certain circles, and it almost makes you smile but resist!

South Australia

Reach out for rusty old Adelaide instead. Head south from Darwin catch Ayres Rock (sorry Uluru) Kings Canyon and go underground at Coober Pedy. 'The Adelaide Hills are nice' (everybody says that), stop at a Church, see the Adelaide Oval (same thing?) and Great Ocean Road is swell with its a Apostles and the fallen London Bridge (they all do eventually).

Melbourne

Over night in Melbourne, catch a play - theatre darling?, have a 'decent feed' in a bustling side walk, then back up north, hug the coast (lets get cozy) for Eden, Bega, cheese, Pebbly beach but please don't feed the kangaroos. Kangaroo Valley where you'll probably won't see any kangaroos and Fitzroy Falls for a very civilised National Park and finally to Sydney.

Sydney

So that's been a few months of your life gone and you've made it. If you really are a commitment-phobe you could just fly straight out to the land the All Day Long Cloud. Dare you risk a quick peek because that is the beginning of the end...

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If you aren't prepared to risk being thrown out (and they will track you down eventually) then you'll have to face the gut wrenching feeling of passing through the barrier at Sydney Airport (Kingsford Smith). At least when the time comes you'll take some fun memories with you to ease your broken heart.

No escape

You'll be back, and maybe you really will, because part of you will never really leave. Didn't anyone tell you - this used to be a convict settlement. You might leave your heart in San Francisco, if you come to Sydney it will become incarcerated.

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???? surely you guys can't be serious, xmas in Sydney, what a joke, no lights, no decorations, very shallow and a lacking spirit, especially for children, I think next year will be spent in my childrens home state of Qld, very poor effort ....................xmas in Sydney, let me think, NO WAY.

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I completely agree with you. For kiddie fun Brisbane is awesome, but for adult fun, for the satisfaction of a lifelong grown up romance nothing beats Sydney. I grew up in Sydney raised my kids in Brisbane and Auckland and I yearn to come back like a Bogan moth flying with the swarm - nothing will stop me once the time is right. Sydney is the best home you can have, for whatever mood you find yourself in and nothing beats the honesty of this big fast city. A lack of trashy commercial Xmas lights does not compare with that gnawing pain that draws me back to the airport, longing to buy a one way ticket! Sydney ?? - hell yeah!

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