Weekend in Sydney

Above :- Quarantine Beach – Sydney Harbour

As the name of this post suggests, Graham and I have just returned from a weekend in Sydney.

This trip, Dear Readers, wasn’t solely for R&R as I have had two weeks sick leave so I could have a cardiac procedure at the Sydney Adventist Hospital.

And before you become alarmed, it was day surgery and it all went well, and I have a 95% chance that I will NEVER have my heart racing again at 250 bpm.

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Anyway…. While we were in Sydney we thought it would be an opportunity to stay some nice places while I recuperate.. (I was told not to exert myself, lift or do housework for 5 days! *Bonus*).

Saturday night we stayed at the Q Station at North Head.

This is now a lovely hotel/ resort.

The complex operated as a quarantine station from 14 August 1832 to 29 February 1984. The idea behind it was that anyone arriving in the colony (as it then was) who might have an infectious disease would be kept in quarantine until it was considered safe to release them.

The station is now home to a hotel, conference centre, and restaurant complex known as Q Station,and remains part of the Sydney Harbour National Park. (Wikipedia)

Above:- what was once the first class dining room is now a guests lounge.

Beautiful weather, really warm for August.

We didn’t get to eat in their apparently amazing restaurant as it was fully booked so we had to make do with a pizza in the bar. Which was a rather nice pizza.

Thanks to the young couple below, who unknowingly made a lovely sunset picture.

Then onto Sunday, which was another glorious day.

…. and we moved location, to the Novotel at Darling Harbour and these pics below I took from the window of our room.

We spent the afternoon at the Powerhouse Museum. It probably will be the last time we visit the Ultimo site as the Powerhouse is being  moved to Parramatta.  (So that the greedy government can sell the Ultimo site to developers, to be made into luxury apartments, that average folks won’t be able to afford to buy …..)

We went to the Sherlock exhibition currently on at the Powerhouse.

All the adults running around with their little notebooks, getting stamps, and making brass rubbings to try and find the clues to solve the mystery! – What a hoot.

Below is two of the pages of my notebook!

Dear Readers! We were jolly hopeless, we got nowhere near the solution!

Below is the view – taken while sitting on the bed….

And tonight we did get a nice meal at the Ternary Restaurant at the Novotel. Highly recommend the chocolate tart with sorbet….

 

… below is a photo of the chocolate tart from trip advisor.

Thanks to the unknown person who took the pic!!!