Sydney & Manly-Post #4 “If it’s Thursday it must be…!”

I bit of a whirlwind trip, but it did mean I was able actually go to New Zealand! For a few hours!


After breakfast, we caught the water taxi back to the Circular Quay and then taxi’d our way out to the airport to catch the Noon flight to Auckland.

Once we’d landed at Auckland Airport around 5PM, there was a 1/2 hour drive into downtown to the Hilton Auckland where I had a room booked.

Shortly after checking in the NZ District Sales Mgr picked me up to go to a meeting with his sales team and several potential customers. I provided a high level explanation of what the HP Digital Hospital program could bring to their facilities.

And that was that! Back to the hotel… grabbed a bite to eat… had a short walkabout the harbour… off to bed!

Sky Tower… during one episode of Amazing Race, the contestants had to climb the mast of Sky Tower and retrieve a Travelocity roaming gnome from the top!
… and in daylight!

I caught an early flight back to Sydney, but wasn’t able to connect with an Air Canada flight back to Vancouver, so back downtown via train from the airport to the Circular Quay to a hotel to rest!

One last morning snap of the Sydney Harbour Bridge from the train as I headed out to the airport

My flight back to Vancouver meant that I arrived there before I left Sydney due to crossing back over the International Dateline… also flew over Hawaii again!

I spent a night with niece Heather in Abbotsford and visited Mum before flying home the next day!