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My favourite it the sign saying FWY Newcastle at Hornsby the city gives me the hebi geebies, to many people. Bring on the country yo. I was in North Sydney on Sat night and i saw in a real estate widow an add for a 2 broom apartment for rent @ $1600 a week. :P

I've gone down a road through Kangaroo Valley towards Ulladulla which was awesome, and I would have to say the Macquarie Pass drive to Wollongong to see the grandparent's is always fun!

Driving Roads..

Dont know the name but its right next to Waterfall Train Station on the way to Ira.. Gorgeous road on a sunny day..

Woolongong Highway

Mc Kais (spell?) Creek.. on the way to Palm Beach

Old Pacific Highway

Bells Line of Road

Bobbin Head Road (Ku Ring Gai Chase)

Going out..

The local.. Epping

Candy's Apartament

Purple Sneakers/Abercumbie (before it got all trendy and shit)

Cargo isn't bad.. neither is Wallaby

And HUGE fan of Sounds On Sunday

Operah Bar is good if you wanna go somewhere nice

Galston Gorge.

The only benefit of living in the middle of nowhere. :(

wtf... That's 3 mins away from my new place! My auntie and uncle live on the otherside! I visit them regularly since I found that out :blush:

wtf... That's 3 mins away from my new place! My auntie and uncle live on the otherside! I visit them regularly since I found that out :rofl:

Another person living in the middle of nowhere too?lol

Are you on the hornsby or dural side?

Might see you around then! :)

Hey.

I was just wondering where do you guys hang out or enjoy going to, with freind by yourself or with the family?

Just thought I'd mention that Wollongong is a nice place, closer to the city than some of the "Sydney suburbs".

It's part of "Greater Sydney"

It's the "Greater" part.

Going through the city on a nice quiet night (Monday, Tuesday etc, definately not Fri, Sat, Sun) and just seeing all the lights, driving along some nice roads, and stopping for some ice cream or pancakes :thumbsup:

My absolute favourite drive though would have to be an SAU cruise. Chubbs' one last year along bells line of road to the pie shop was great, or any drive to a DECA or Texi is fantastic :)

He meant the ice skating rink.

I cbf drive in these days.

but usually ari, towers, pubs, mm chilaxing at mate, tank, laundry eh

whatelse..

Oh good! A "Places to go in Sydney" thread. Never know what to do when i'm there (not that I go there a lot) but often find myself/ourselves gettin bored and not knowing what to do. Took my gf for a surprise skydive for her bday though, that was cool...although never make the mistake of staying at StarCity again...nice place, but always thought it was the equivilant to our Crown Casino...boy was I wrong!

Another person living in the middle of nowhere too?lol

Are you on the hornsby or dural side?

Might see you around then! :thumbsup:

Hornsby side. But I think last time I went out to my aunties place on the dural side, I did see a silver 34 :)

He meant the ice skating rink.

oh yeah, the rink for sure... club mac n shit ftw! :(

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