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Day-by-day itineraries, what to eat, how the city actually works, and the places within a train ride that are worth the day.
Day Trips from Sydney
A sandstone plateau, a wine region, a coastline of empty beaches and a convict town, all within two hours.
Eating in Sydney
Modern Australian means Asian technique on European training with local produce, and Sydney does it better than anywhere.
Getting Around Sydney
One card for trains, ferries, buses, light rail and a driverless metro — with fare caps that make the ferries almost free.
How Much Does Sydney Cost?
Expensive, and unusually generous about what it gives away free — which is most of the best of it.
Sydney Airport to the City
A train that takes thirteen minutes and charges a fee that costs more than the journey, and two ways around it.
The Beach, and How Not to Drown
Rip currents kill more people in Australia than sharks, floods and bushfires combined, and almost every one of them is avoidable.
The Gadigal, and What Happened Here
Sydney is one of the longest continuously inhabited places on earth, and the part everyone knows about covers the last two hundred years of it.
Three Days in Sydney
The harbour, the beaches and the inner suburbs, with a ferry doing most of the work.
Where to Stay in Sydney
Harbour, beach or inner suburbs — and the ferry means you can pick one without giving up the others.