Wednesday, 14th May 2008
A couple who we met through the immigration forum website, Carrie & Warren, we out here on an LSD trip (Look, See, Decide). You can check out their blog HERE. We met up with them at a restaurant at Darling Harbour where we had a few schooners and a some tukker. It was fabulous spending time with these lovely like-minded people.
Saturday, 17th May 2008
We decided to head on into the city for the day. The plan was to walk through Hyde Park and see where the path took us. I'll let the pics tell the story....
Our first port of call as the Queen Victoria Building (QVB) for a bit to eat at a great little Japanese restaurant. We had a meal combination of a sushi platter and udon noodle soup. Needless to say, the soup was not the easiest thing in the world to eat - especially with chopsticks!!! Scott tried to cheat with a spoon, but even that wasn't too successful!
This plaque is at the entrance of the Anzac Memorial Building in Hyde Park. The following pics were taken in and around the Anzac Memorial.
The ceiling here is covered with embossed gold stars of varying sizes - just a pity this pic doesn't do this beautiful ceiling justice.
I think someone may have added some soapy stuff to this really pretty fountain in the Sandringham Garden.
The centre of Hyde Park with Park Street running from the city centre to King's Cross & Paddington (left to right)
The full view of the fountain. There's a Diet Coke TV advert which is shot here (yip, here it's Diet Coke - not Coke Lite)
St Mary's catholic church - this is where "Eggs" stayed for World Youth Day (this is what Pope Benedict was affectionately known as while he was here last week.)
This is walking out the end of Hyde Park - the brick building on the right is the Hyde Park Barracks.
After we'd finished in the park, we headed down towards The Rocks for something to quench our parched throats. We came across this restaurant board and couldn't resist...
YOU'RE FAMOUS, CLAUDE!!!
YOU'RE FAMOUS, CLAUDE!!!
The board above ended up being the restaurant section of this fabulous pub - The Observer - where we ended up spending most of the evening
This guy was brilliant! Excellent pub muso who could play just about anything. We had a blast listening to some genuine Aussie pub rock!!! And because we've been listening to Aussie radio for years now (via the internet), we knew most of the Aussie songs! :-)
6 comments:
Hi All
Ssssccchhwwweeeeet, another blog. Has Christmas come early? Thank's for the update. The pictures are awesome. Am amazed at how clean everything seems to be
The photos of Hyde Park are breathtaking. So did the couple make a decision? Oh, what happened to the hat boet?
Love to all
Grant
Your pics make me homesick!
Haven't you heard of Christmas in July Grant??? LOL!
Yes, they did make their decision - once you've been here, I don't know that's its humanly possible NOT to want to live here!!! :-) They're busy gathering all their paperwork in order to submit their application.
Check out Carrie's blog and also the new immigration website www.sa2oz.org.
Hey Seabee
Come on home, mate!
I can relate to seabee. Nice pictures mupersans, but I am currently missing Qld not waratah country, especially stuck in this 45 degree UAE heat.
Enjoy Oz mupersans..... aussie aussie aussie, oi oi oi ......
I can relate to what dave and Seebee said expect I missing VIc/Qld and am in Good Ol uncle Sams country
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