OK Sydney isn't so bad after all.
Still a little soul-less but we like it a trifle better.
We didn't do the Bridge Climb cos it costs a whopping 150 bucks each and takes 3.5 hours =O Spent the moolah on shopping instead =)) As expected, nothing nice was playing at the Opera House so we opted for a fantastic dinner by the waterfront instead. Sergio Mendes plays this Friday and Ashkenazy does some Rachmaninoff next week. Bad timing
lah =/
We took a brisk 4km walk in the morning to the Opera House from the Kirketon on Darlinghurst. On the way, we strolled by this nice glass-panelled monument at Hyde Park Barracks dedicated to the young Irish women who arrived in Sydney in the late 1800s.
The Queen Victoria Building is a beautifully restored behemoth of a shopping centre. The foodcourt downstairs also sells a mean Chicken Curry cooked by ex-Malaysians. Sedap! Anyway, these stain-glass windows dating back from the 19th Century were quite pretty.
Every
angmo city has some tower it seems. Sydney is no exception. Except we think this one is pretty ugly although its a well-known landmark. I took its reflection from a glass building along Pitt Street.
Ahh, the good ole' Coat Hanger. We didn't have time to climb it in the day so we did it after dinner. I mean we used the Pedestrian walkway. Its free! =))
OK a better shot of the Opera House I hope. I think the white tiles catch the evening light pretty well. Its a lovely piece of art I feel. Although the 26 bucks we each paid to tour its innards was kinda of a rip-off.
For this shot, I had to balance my camera precariously from the railings of the Harbour Bridge and use toilet paper to angle the damn thing down so it pointed towards the shiny white curvy mess way down below. And because I had to open the shutter for quite abit, everytime a bloody car sped past and shook the bridge, I had to retake. The lengths I go for some decent Opera =))
Its back home tommorrow!