Australia is the latest pitstop on Pippa Middleton's Amazing Race style honeymoon. Â
The sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, and aunt to the third and fourth in line to the British throne, enjoyed some down time, down under on Wednesday with her new husband, financier James Matthews, as the couple continue their round-the-world honeymoon.
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Pippa Middleton, James Matthews spotted in Sydney
The sister of the Duchess of Cambridge has been seen in Sydney with her new husband, financier James Matthews. Vision: Seven Network.
The pair were spotted by waiting paparazzi at Sydney Airport late on Tuesday night as they, reportedly, disembarked from a flight from New Zealand.
Sydney resident Steven Beale spotted the couple, who were incognito in large sunglasses and baseball caps, on Wednesday as he was walking to work just after 8am.
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"I walked past her at the foot of the Harbour Bridge with her husband and, I think, a personal trainer," he told Fairfax Media as the couple ran toward North Sydney.
"[She] looked like such a pro in her active wear," a fellow Sydneysider, who also walked past them on her usual commute to work across the bridge, told Fairfax Media.
"She was impressively keeping up with her husband and trainer, or guard dude. They seemed like they were loving running across the bridge and looking around."
Middleton, 33, is no stranger to rigorous work outs.
As an avid runner and cyclist, she regularly competes in fun runs and ultra marathon events for charity. She completed her first marathon in the 30 degree heat in Kenya in 2015 and was the seventh female finisher. A week before that she rode about 87 kilometres from London to Brighton to raise awareness for the British Heart Foundation.
After their morning workout on Wednesday, the couple boarded a water taxi with two friends, who were nursing a newborn, before setting out on Sydney Harbour. The taxi then returned to the dock at Sydney's exclusive Park Hyatt Hotel before heading east to Rose Bay with its royally adjacent passengers.
The newlyweds were flown by private seaplane, booked under Matthews' name at Sydney Seaplanes, to a spontaneous long lunch at the Cottage Point Inn.
"It's chaos," restaurant owner Ally Olesen said. "We're surprised and flattered they chose us."
Olesen and her husband, Shane, took over the fine-dining establishment last year and the eatery has quickly become a hot spot for visiting celebrities, like Jerry Seinfeld and Dustin Hoffmann, and VIPs, like Westfield chairman Frank Lowry, due to its remote and picturesque location on the Hawkesbury River.Â
The restaurant offers a three-hour degustation menu, created by former Guillaume head chef Kevin Soloman, for $140 a person. For an extra $75 customers can pair wines to their dishes. The seven-course meal, includes stretched curd, smoked eel, wild kingfish, dusky flathead and cured pork.
Despite items like kangaroo tartare being on the menu, Olesen recommended the duck breast with grilled plum dish.
Middleton and Matthews married this month in a semi-private ceremony and heavily guarded reception on the bride's family estate in Berkshire.
Prince George and Princess Charlotte served as page boy and page girl respectively.
The Duchess of Cambridge was in charge of wrangling the children, while princes William and Harry arrived at the ceremony together.
Harry's girlfriend, Suits star Meghan Markle, attended the reception that was hosted inside a glass marquee shipped in from Belgium.
The newlyweds have been holidaying since their nuptials on May 20.
They were spotted walking on the sand and paddle-boarding in Tetiaroa - a cluster of private islands in French Polynesia - while enjoying the hospitality of The Brando, an exclusive $4000-a-night resort once owned by Marlon Brando.
The pair have arrived in Sydney at just the right time.
Their waterfront hotel, where suites cost about $2000 a night, will give them uninterrupted views of Sydney's Vivid Festival.