{"id":220,"date":"2024-12-17T10:08:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovery.cevolution.co.uk\/australia\/?p=220"},"modified":"2024-12-29T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T11:55:06","slug":"sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery.cevolution.co.uk\/australia\/2024\/12\/17\/sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 11<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

Back at Cairns Airport, I find myself waiting to embark on the next leg of my Antipodean Adventure<\/a>! Sydney, here I come! \ud83d\ude0e Sydney is the capital of Australia and is located in the southeastern Australian state of New South Wales<\/em><\/a> – or NSW as it’s more colloquially referred to – with Queensland<\/a> to the North, Victoria to the south and Southern Australia to the west. NSW is also home to the ACT<\/a> – an enclave within the state, otherwise known as the Australian Capital Territory (or the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, pre-1938).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having dropped the trusty chariot back at the Avis Car Hire collection point – thank you, my faithful friend, it was a pleasure; you served me well – it was time to board Virgin VA1426, a 737-800 at, I’d say, around 75%-ish full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Virgin are not as “generous” as Qantas, so there were no interesting “freebies” like there were on the flight to Cairns<\/a>. However, having a window seat over the wing – without the extra legroom, sadly \ud83d\ude1e – made for some interesting photo opportunities as we headed into the night: being an hour ahead and with an estimated flight time of ~3 hours, touchdown in Sydney was going to be around 9:30 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n