Dinner time in Portugal is rather late for us. Local people usually have dinner after 7pm. The street might look deserted because all the shops are closed. However most restaurants around there are packed with patrons. Popular places all require advance reservations and we learned the hard way tonight..
We will never know, but yesterday’s missing the cruise might have been the best thing ever happened. Even though we had to pay extra for rebooking, today’s sunset sightseeing cruise felt like a perfect conclusion to our journey in Sydney.
Good Night, Sydney. It’s been a wonderful experience exceeding expectations. It’s a long, tiring journey to get here. Will we ever come back here? I won’t close that door just yet..
Spending time leisurely in Brisbane and now Sydney has somewhat disoriented me. The amount of Asian population, to me anyway, is surprisingly high. That’s one thing I did not anticipate before I arrived in Australia. Casually walking on the street, the languages I heard and recognized include English, Mandarin, Japanese and Korean. The faces that I came across were also giving me the illusion that I was somewhere in Asia. What a world we live in!
Nobody knows what’s on my mind the moment we landed in San Francisco. I looked at the city intensely through the Uber window on our way to the hotel yesterday, and I wondered if my companion had detected anything. This is something I have to tell him eventually. I’m waiting for the right moment, but I fear that the “right” moment might never come..
Impressive view from our hotel’s balcony. Erected in 1936, this obelisk is located at the Plaza de la República.
Yet another high rise residential building in the neighborhood. Once the tallest building in the area, three decades later we are now basically the oldest and almost the shortest apartment building around here.
How time flies..
