Sydney is one of those cities where distance on a map means almost nothing. Fourteen kilometres from Balmain to Sydney Airport looks fine until you're sitting on the Western Distributor at 7:15am watching the minutes tick down to a domestic boarding time that does not move for you.The city spreads in every direction from the CBD and the airport sits firmly in the south-east corner of it. That geography is the single most important thing to understand when you're booking ground transport in Sydne
