Tennis – Habitual Travelers

SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

Our trip down under January 10 – February 1, 2018

We are a family of tennis players and when we have the opportunity we like to attend major tennis tournaments around the world. Last minute flights and tickets to the Australian Open Tennis Tournament are available so we are on our way.

We will also visit Fiji for the first time and return to the South Island of New Zealand for the first time in 25 years.

SYDNEY

We stopped for one night in Sydney, and took in the Harbor sights, before flying on to Melbourne.

The beautiful Opera House

SYDNEY Australia is one of our favorite coastline cities along with Cape Town, Australia. Both Sydney and Cape Town have a magical light and beauty.

We stayed at the Park Hyatt Hotel, which is in a really great spot, right on the Harbor.

After getting checked in we took a boat across the harbor to hike along a beautiful coast line facing the Tasman Sea.

There are lots of sailboats in the Harbor.

We got off the boat at a pretty park where families were enjoying picnics, and hiked up from the Harbor to a view of the Tasman Sea.

Overlooking the Tasman Sea.

MELBOURNE

We stayed in the Langham Hotel in the Southgate area of MELBOURNE since it is within easy walking distance of Melbourne Park where the Australian Open Tennis Tournament is held.

The view from our Hotel Langham, across the Yara River.

We rented bikes and rode from the Yara River area in Southgate to the Melbourne beaches. It was 25 kilometers down and back through Southgate shopping areas and also along dedicated walking and biking trails.

Renting Bikes.

At the Port.

There were bike trails all of the way.

The next three days we went to the Australian Open Tennis Tournament. Day sessions, night sessions, shopping, (they had a Lululemon with the Australian Open logos, which Barb loved).

The tennis was exciting to watch. We had tickets to two night sessions and two day sessions and watched matches resulting in entry to the quarterfinals of the tournament.