Hyde Park, Sydney

I didn’t want to go to home straight after leaving the consulate,
so I walked around the city with a friend.
I stopped by the nearby Apple Store and tried out Apple products that I wouldn’t even buy.

Every time I went to the Apple Store, the staff was very friendly.
In their eyes, I would look like a short stranger in an oriental country,
but it felt like I was always warmly welcomed, so I felt really good during my visit.

Unlike other antique buildings around the Apple Store, the building was very modern and pretty.
And it was also very attractive to be able to see this kind of scenery from inside the store,
and I was able to see the old scenery with people outside from inside the transparent building, separated from the world with a single glass.

During my stay in Australia, what I saw and experienced were ways to experience everyday life in an unfamiliar place in a short time.
It was also a very positive and desirable figure that travel tells me.

Opposite the Apple Store, there is Hyde Park.
I was always envious and surprised that there was such a large park in the middle of Sydney’s city center.

I could see a large chess board and pieces in the middle of the park, and I decided to actually take some time to play chess with my friend.
I was used to playing chess, but I easily lost to my friend, but I felt like I was entering a big world, like Alice in Wonderland.

It was so fun to move big pieses in chess

I grumbled that I had lost because the Australian uncle was giving advice to my friend, not me.

At my words, my friend smiled and said that he would accept my challenge again anytime.

It was short, but I laughed a lot while playing chess, and I enjoyed a day in Sydney as a daily routine.

Feb.17.2009