Graham and I spent a few days in Sydney in late November to see Comedian Bill Bailey at the Opera House.
We stayed close to Darling Harbour, so got to make good use of the new light rail, the building of which is causing major disruptions throughout the city.
Hopefully, when its finished it will be even better, as the part we travelled on was fairly well used.
We had a walk around the new Barangaroo headland.
Below is a great pic of what it looks like from the air... No I didn't take this pic, but its very pretty isn't it!
We stayed in an apartment on the corner of Prymont road and Prymont Bridge road, so a bit noisy, and I don't think we'll stay there again as I will explain at the end of this post.
Below are the views from the roof top BBQ area, be great on NYE.
On the following day we visited the ANZAC memorial in Hyde Park.
I haven't been there since I was a child, possibly on a school excursion.
I was going to say its just been refurbished, but its actually just been completed.
Anzac Memorial completed after 84 years, ready for armistice centenary
Original sketches of the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park in the 1930s reveal a rather different building to the one we know today.
Stand
at Liverpool Street looking north into Hyde Park and the intention was
that you would have seen four levels of cascading water. That was the
original concept design of Bruce Dellitt, the memorial's architect. Then
came the Depression and the finances dried up.
Now, more than 84 years later, that vision will be realised, apparently on budget and despite the fact that, on Friday when the Herald was given a private tour, the memorial was still a busy building site.
Completion
will be in time for the centenary anniversary of the armistice of World
War I on November 11 which will be held, not as usual at the Cenotaph
in Martin Place, but at the completed memorial.
By Tim Barlass
Below: Maybe, still not finished... Or they have realised that they need a pool fence to meet local government regulations!
Above is a photo from the New Hall of Service which has soil from 1701 place names from every NSW location that had an enlistee.
And we then walked via Hyde park to the State Library, which was great.
If your interested in art, books, and local history go and have a look, its just had new galleries opened.
And, we would have gone to the Oyster Bar, but it was packed! On a Tuesday! Decadent Sydney..
Anyway, Bill Bailey was of course fantastic... Very funny.
Okay, something else funny.
Well you may ask why I have a picture of an unmade bed in my blog.
Well, I woke up on the first morning to find myself so tangled in sheets that I was nearly strangled!
And we had not had any alcohol the night before, and there was no rampant love acts either...
When I asked Graham to take an end of a sheet, so we could remake the bed, this is what we discovered... they had obviously run out of king size sheets so had put 2 smaller sheets on the bed which didn't reach the end of the bed!!!
AND WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS OKAY!?
Yes, we complained.. ++++
And it was fixed, with many apologies, very quickly.
The oven was dirty as well... not going back there.
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