Daz and Andy with a challenging drinking game

We got to Sydney around 4pm and taxied to our apartment to meet Daz and Anna-Marie. It was very exciting to meet up with them; we had to keep pinching ourselves that we were all in Sydney! I had arranged a restaurant for that evening which was a Tapas restaurant in Darlinghurst. The food was amazing, and everything was shareable so you got to taste lots of amazing dishes. The atmosphere was great too, I was very impressed.

We then decided to follow my ‘Bar cards’ on a pub crawl around the area… the first two places were closed down, third time lucky though we found a nice but quiet bar at the back of a hotel that we would never have known about without my cards. After that it turned a bit disastrous as en route to another location on my cards we stopped at a pub which we believe may have been a gay bar – we were encroaching very quickly upon the huge gay area in Sydney. We gave up on the bar cards after that and decided to follow a busy road – that was our mistake, soon Anna and I were the only females about and every bar was packed with men. It was interesting and I’m glad I got to see that area, however we had to flag a taxi after Andy (who was thankfully wearing his ‘Girls, Girls, Girls top) freaked out at a pedestrian crossing when he got surrounded by about 10 gay couples. We instructed the taxi driver to ‘get us out of here’ and ended up at the far more refined Rocks area. We had a great night at the bars around there and Andy managed to recover from his earlier trauma and have a great birthday!