Gray Line

Today I did what I don't normally do when i travel, I went on a city bus tour. I'm never a fan of things like this but what's the worse that could happen? I'll tell you!

This was possibly the worst tour I have ever been on of any kind. When you think city tour, you think the guide might talk about the history of the city, who founded it, places to see, things to do, great restaurants, but generally they would provide insight into the city's history....right? Yea, not this bus driver. Wow. He started off on, and this should have tipped me off, by pointing out an office building and asked 'how many people do you think work in that building? Huh? How many? I'll tell ya how many, 15,000 people work in that building, isn't that amazing?' ummmm what? As we continued on, he pointed out things like McDonalds drive thrus, banks, schools etc. He pointed all these things out with pride, as though no other town in the world had gems like these. Oh, and as if it wasn't enough to ask us to guess how many people worked in a building, he later pointed out a parking garage and asked 'how many buses do you think can fit in there? I'll tell ya, 48! Isn't that amazing?' No guy, it's not amazing. Amazing would be fitting those 48 buses into a clown car. Amazing would be seeing David Copperfield take 48 buses and make them disappear right before your eyes. 48 buses in a parking garage, not so amazing. To make matters worse, he was not only a bad tour guide, he was a horrible bus driver. The entire three hours of him babbling didn't help with the headache his driving was responsible for as he jerk the bus around corners, slammed on the brakes and pressed the gas hard when accelerating. The company responsible for this trip, Gray Line.

The only upside to this day was late in the afternoon when I made my way across the harbor to McMakhon's Point to find a Tapas Bar. I had done some research before coming to Sydney to find good places to eat and this was one of the ones I had read about. I remembered in Spain one of their staple foods was tapas which I loved so I wanted to get some here. The place was called Delicado Tapas Bar and they had great tapas, very expensive but good. They also had a really nice smooth drink called Pisco Sour.....definitely had a few too many of these.