Tag/category: sydney opera house
Walking, fried fish and opera
I think when I look back this trip will be characterised by walking. Lots of walking. For a start, there’s the 10k coastal walk we did from Spit Bridge to Manly, and the coastal walk from Bondi to Coogee, and today a more-strenuous-than-planned walk in the Blue Mountains. But there’s also all the walking from A-B. On my first day, …
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Opera house tour and tickets quest
I just had a brilliant tour round the opera house — people said this would be a highlight and they weren’t wrong. Fascinating hearing about the design by Utzon, that found itself in the ‘rejected’ pile originally, what an engineering feat it was to realise it, and how he fell out of favour with the Australian government as it overran …
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Sydney and jet lag
Sydney arrival 11am at airport – shuttle bus return for $24 got me to the hostel by noon. Surly bus driver – squabbling over five dollars he thought was owed to him by a toddler being on board (at the desk the parents hadn’t been charged). He was also a bit odd towards me but I later worked that out, …
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