Welcome to my amazing month of travel in good old Australia
From a family trip turned solo backpacker, I met so many amazing people,
faced serious challenges and experienced so many new things. I have a million stories to tell
I'm excited to share my journey with you and I hope you enjoy!
Hi guys um welcome to Sydney Uh we've been here all day actually
but um I had a uni test that I had to do so that's why we haven't really done anything
But dad and I are just on our way back from the mall
we were informed that it's about a 10 minute walk uh spoiler alert we were pranked
It's about a 20-minute walk we just don't know the local way we're going yeah the other way...
exactly. I don't know if we're taking the most direct route but it's kind of okay because
um I'm enjoying looking at the different types of like houses and buildings and stuff here I haven't
been to Australia in like years and years and years so it's a interesting experience. But yes
good times, the end
um
This is what two people look like that walked to the wrong street,
but with the same name as the place that we're trying to go
Um swag. So we ended up getting picked up by my uncle which was
lovely and then we went back had a great dinner and slept amazing.
Hi good morning um it is a new day today um it is about 6:30 in the morning and
I'm still very asleep but um I just I just woke up um and I wanted to go see if I can
catch a sunrise somewhere except it kind of looks like um it's very cloudy
okay yeah
it's extremely cloudy. That is all cloud but it was in a shot
Today um I think we're planning on going to a market in the morning and then maybe
walking around some art in town later or going to check out some other suburb or whatnot and yeah
so it should be a fun time!
Listen to the birds in this tree I love seeing all the different
birds and trees and bushes and plants it's so cool
So basically I think I've come to some shops which is what I'm looking for. I might stop
at a cafe and just you know have a little chai take and take in the city um and if
I see like a bakery or something selling some bread I might get some of that for breakfast
because we don't have any bread I'm not like the biggest cereal person but yeah
Oh my gosh I think this is the longest that I've ever vlogged with my arm
up all in one go my arm is sore now that's embarrassing.
Anyways let's go!
So this is the extent of the sunrise that I managed to catch not the most dramatic but
lovely nonetheless um went back got ready and we headed to the Glebe Markets these
markets were so cool they were filled with vintage clothes, secondhand clothes,
some delicious food, handmade stuff. Definitely where all the cool young hipsters hang out.
This is an ibis bird they're like um pigeons in Australia or more commonly known as a *bin
chicken* um excuse my terrible accent I think it's fun though um this is what dad got for
lunch I'm not sure exactly what it is I think it might have been Brazilian um but it looked
and smelled delicious and I love how many different parts it has like to the meal
We went for a walk down the street and Glebe,
looked at some records and made our way to the Paddington markets!
This was my dream weekend just like hitting up multiple markets on the same day these were
very cute a lot smaller but I had some delicious Egyptian food. It's got eggplant, falafel, hummus,
salads um just everything you could want okay so we are now with my cousin
and we finished up at the market and we are heading to a contemporary Chinese art
gallery which should be exciting I think we're gonna hop on the bus at some point and yeah
Now the art gallery was amazing I would highly highly recommend it is free, it is not too big,
I'm not gonna lie don't have the longest attention span for art galleries um the stuff there was
really cool. Just really interesting um fun stuff to look at we headed to Koi desert bar which is
run by um this guy called Reynold who I don't know if he won MasterChef Australia but he was cool
and one of my goals in going to Sydney was to check out some MasterChef restaurants
Good morning! So um last night we went out for dinner which was very fun at a Vietnamese
restaurant and then dad, two of my cousins and myself went um to a pub and then we went
to see a drag show, went and had a boogie that was super fun um and we were all home by like
before 12 which is so funny but yeah so dad and I are just on our way back from church
um which was nice. Music was not so nice, but you know we still appreciate it
as dad said it would've been worse there was not music but yeah the plan today is to
go to another market and then we are heading to IKEA which is kind of exciting!
So we went to the Marrickville markets which were a lot more sort of farmers market type of vibes
uh check out these cute kitties that one snobbed me but it's fine :( I don't care
um yeah it was nice uh we looked at the weather forecast, apparently read it wrong
and it totally poured down and we got sooaaking wet
We headed to IKEA I have literally never been to IKEA in my life and was
very excited by these little paper tape measures that they handed out
actually came in handy and I obviously wanted to try the Swedish meatballs at
IKEA because that's iconic I was pleasantly surprised and what the heck look at this
cool conveyor belt they have that you take your trays to when you're finished eating
Hi guys um I just thought I would do a bit of sit down check in and I just wanted to share
some things that I have noticed and I just thought about since I've been in Australia
um basically I haven't been here for a long time since like.. and I haven't been here since I was
like pretty much old enough to really pay proper attention to anything or like remember things well
um so I thought would eat a little mangosteen, got a cup of tea
um for those of you who don't know because it's not a common fruit um in New Zealand, mangosteen
is native to the Malaysian peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo which I knew
already um I didn't know that I knew it came from Asia somewhere but it makes a lot of sense
that I would have eaten it before and why I know it is because my mum is from
Malaysia um but yeah so basically it comes in this like thingy and then you press it between like
the this um and it pops open and it's got these um
white fleshy segments you pick the segments out and then you eat it
Oh okay I was expecting a seed inside that one um I think the smaller ones don't have seeds but
the big ones have seeds inside um and you don't eat the seeds you just eat the white flesh and
it's sweet a little acidic um jeez I have no idea what to compare it
to you know what I'm gonna google what it tastes like and put it here
yum that's so good so good um
anyways what I'm going to talk about is I have two things I want to talk about
firstly, the people at the Glebe markets and secondly IKEA I have a lot of thoughts about
IKEA um so basically the glee markets where we went um on Saturday morning um
I showed up and I'm not... I'm not like insecure about my like my how I look um and stuff like that
but I showed up and I was like why is everyone here so well dressed and so good looking I don't
understand how it works um and I was basically just shocked because I feel like in New Zealand
it's very normal just to go out like super chill just like jeans and t-shirt like slides or like
sweatpants and a hoodie um and stuff like that but I just found that all of the people like younger
people mainly um really like not necessarily like fancy fancy but definitely the kind of like
look that you could tell that like they put a lot of effort into like matching stuff even if
it was quite casual and like a lot of people like there were quite a lot a few people wearing like
makeup which you could like not like natural natural makeup but like you can tell that
it's like okay like they're put together and they care about their appearance which I also
do and I'm not hating but I just thought it was really interesting and also like
in New Zealand I know that there's definitely a culture of guys not like putting much effort
into their appearance not everyone but like it just tends towards like guys are chill
they don't care what they wear blah blah blah I also feel like guys put more effort into like
their appearance along with the girls in Australia um yeah I just thought that was really interesting
am I I mean obviously that was just one like area one example it might have been like a
trendy youngster's market um but I definitely noticed that and then the other thing that I
noticed about the market was that um I've never ever... I enjoy going to markets and if I have the
opportunity to go to one I will um but I've never been to a market like this where they were like
food stores and handmade stores but there were so many people selling like second-hand clothes,
like stuff out of their wardrobe and all of it was just crappy like fast fashion items
which is just sad just hello it is future me here um I got interrupted when I was recording but
basically what I was saying was like I got I've been to a lot of markets and I op shop a lot but
like never ever have I seen this much like like 90% of the stores were just people selling their
fast fashion clothes like not not vintage not like well-loved pieces like just tons of stuff that had
obviously been like hardly worn if at all and I was just really shocked I don't know it was
really sad to see um but kind of beneficial for me because that stuff can be hard to find in op shops
um like more fancier like going out to fast fashiony clothes um which I don't really buy fast
fashion so it was beneficial to me and for what I needed but it was very sad to see so much of it
um but yeah so that was just another interesting point but this is where this vlog is gonna end
from here um dad and I went to the Blue Mountains and we went to Canberra did a little road trip
so definitely tune in to the next vlog for that one thank you so much for watching I hope you
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