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Wednesday - 17th Mar | | Sunny
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The smallest continent with the biggest heart, Australia is just brimming over with new experiences and extra ordinary things to see. Australia is a land of promise, and fulfilment. Go there and you will discover a more relaxed, yet focused way to live and work, where people are happy, and life is sunny.
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Australia is almost as big as the United States of America, but with a considerably smaller population and habitable area. The majority of urbanised areas are on the coast, with a few small exceptions, such as Ayers Rock and Alice Springs.
There are great contrasts of climate in Australia; arid desert in the centre, fertile south east, temperate south, tropical north, and Mediterranean south west. In fact Tasmania is very like the United Kingdom in both its temperature range and countryside.
Distance is a big factor in any trip to Australia, whether on business or for pleasure. If you are travelling from Europe, Africa, or the United States of America, then Australia is a far away destination taking at least a full day of flying to get there. But if you are closer at hand in India, China, Thailand, or Japan your overall travelling time will be much less.
As a country the distances needing to be travelled from one major urban centre to another can be very great too. For example Perth is actually closer to Singapore than it is to its next closest Australian urban centre at Adelaide. It is all too easy to underestimate the great distances, and travelling time needed to navigate around in Australia, With a population of over twenty million, Australia is not densely populated, but is the worlds sixth largest country.
We all know from our history and biology lessons, that Captain Cook first stood on the beach at Botany Bay in 1770, and since then the world has wondered at the strange flora and fauna that was to be found in this distant land. Marsupials, birds, plants and reptiles, which were to be a source of amazement to Charles Darwin, who was to use his experience to formulate his ideas of natural selection, and evolution.
The discovery of Australia changed the world, and new fruits, vegetables, and animals were to be a fabulous bounty of ingredients for chefs everywhere. Today restaurants in Australia regularly have meat such as kangaroo and crocodile on the menu, and even further afield it's not uncommon to find roasted 'roo and crispy crock.
You could try some bush tucker, but it's not for the faint hearted. Even the native Aborigines hardly eat it themselves nowadays. For a more relaxed outdoor dining experience you could try a barbeque in a park, where the local council provides barbeques for the general public to cook your food on, alfresco.
For a more formal dining experience in restaurants in Sydney, you will find all the traditional cooked meats, and dishes from around the world such as cuisine from; India, China, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey, Persia, Africa, Greece, Italy, Germany, Poland, Sweden, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Spain and America.
Sydney is far from being a culinary wasteland; it is in fact blessed with some of the world's top chefs, and one of the most amazing restaurant views in the world in the shape of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The coastline of Sydney makes a romantic and fascinating backdrop to a special meal by day, or by night. Seafood is always an Australian favourite, and what better place to indulge than a restaurant in Sydney with the Harbour Bridge or Bondi in the background.
Australians are very passionate about eating out, and enjoy dining in restaurants in Sydney as much as possible, with such a fantastic variety available. Many restaurants in Sydney are unlicensed, and employ a bring your own, or BYO policy. This is a very popular way to cut the expense of a good meal out, as wine is often the most expensive thing on the menu. These restaurants in Sydney with a BYO policy will however charge a small corkage fee.
Fine dining restaurants in Sydney are a luxurious experience. For example, you could try Galileo, a refined French restaurant, which has a big reputation of four consecutive wins of the Australian 'Chefs Hat' awards. The style of Galileo is opulent, and refined, with a superb menu, and amazing wines in the cellar from around the world.
360 is a Sydney restaurant situated eighty floors up in a revolving tower, with gorgeous views. They serve modern Australian cuisine to compliment the ever-changing stunning Sydney skyline as you turn gently with every mouthful.
Contemporary modern Australian cuisine is a firm favourite in Sydney restaurants, and seafood fresh as can be, is always on the menu. Try blue swimmer crab, black muscles, Sydney rock oysters, pickled octopus, yellow fin tuna, scallops, and Tasmanian salmon.
For a more meaty menu, you'll find Black Angus from Victoria, Wagyu sirloin, purebred free-range Hereford beef sirloin on the bone from the Darling Downs, and Red Angus rib of beef from the Coonawarra region of the limestone coast.
Cheese from a local and international selection such as a Buche Noir from New South Wales, Manchego from Spain, Cashel Blue from Ireland, Delice de Bourgogne from France and Taleggio from Italy.
There is such a variety of amazingly fresh good food available in Sydney restaurants, that it's small wonder that eating out is such a big Australian pastime. There’s always a convivial atmosphere, and good food, to be found in a restaurant in Sydney.
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