Sydney
Car Rental Exploring - Harbour Bridge, Opera House
Booking
through Airport Rent A Car can increase your chances of finding
that brilliant Sydney car rental Airport deal .
Sydney
is the biggest city in Australia. It has many of Australia's
best shopping and restaraunt venues. In regards to shopping,
in the city, David Jones is the most beautiful department
store, Gowings offers the best value and the Queen Victoria
Building is splendid with its historic Byzantine-influenced
architecture. Chifley Plaza and Castlereogh Street get the
stripes far exclusivity Further out, Oxford Street, Surry
Hills is for the brave and the stylish; Oxford Street, Paddington
is for the wickedly extravagant and the antique stores of
Queen Street, Woollahra are for the envious. The best shopping
neighborhoods are Double Bay and Mosmon. The best markets
are held at The Rocks (all weekend), Sydney Opera House (Sundays),
and Paddington, Glebe and Balmain, all of which are held on
Saturdays. The best food market is the Sydney Fish Market.
Great
places to take a look at in your rental car is the beautiful
sweeping sails of the Sydney
Opera House and the arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Standing sentinel at the eastern end of Circular Quay, the
Opera House is a breathtaking spectacle with its million white
tiles glinting in the sun and surrounded by the blue of the
harbour. Its beauty belies its rather traumatic gestation
period. The building was completed in 1973, but only after
its Danish architect Jmrn Utzon resigned in protest because
of economically driven changes to his plans for the building’s
interior. Nevertheless, the Opera House is regarded as a stunning
masterpiece and one of the great buildings of the 20th century.
A guided tour of the building and its theatres is highly recommended.
Ask our Sydney car rental agents about any touring advise
you may need.
RESTAURANTS
AND CAFES - A restaurant guide is essential in Sydney. Best
choices are the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide, published
by Anne O’Donovan, for a general run-down, and the SBS
Eating Guide to Sydney, published by Allen & Unwin, for
a roundup of the top choices in multicultural dining. The
range in. Sydney is incredible, Insider's tips include: the
cafes of Victoria Street, Kings Cross; the food halls of Chinatown;
the stalls at the Sydney Fish Market; Norton Street,. Leichhardt
for Italian; Cleveland Street, Surry Hills far Lebanese; Liverpool
Street in the city for Spanish; and the cafes at Hyde Park
Barracks Museum, Centennial Park, the MCA, the Royal Botanic
Gardens, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National
Maritime Museum — for proof that good eating and tourist
attractions are not necessarily mutually exclusive concepts.
The
Harbour
Bridge, opened in 1932, was designed by the engineer John
Bradfield and is the second longest single span bridge in
the world to drive your rental car over. (New York’s
Bayonne Bridge wins by a matter of centimetres.) Its broad
deck is 134 metres above the water and carries 8 lanes for
traffic, a double-track railway, a cycle lane and a pedestrian
walkway offering stunning views. Park your Sydney rental car
and take the pedestrian access which is via Cumberland Street
in The Rocks. The southeastern Pylon Lookout contains the
Harbour Bridge Exhibition featuring old photographs of this
grand Sydney icon. It also offers magnificent harbour views
from its viewing platform. The more adventurous can join a
guided three-hour climb to the very top of the bridge. A headset
links you to your guide and you wear a safety harness. No
matter what your preferred attraction, a cheap Sydney car
rental deal will probably prove essential to see every thing
you need to see. |
