This blog post about my Sydney business trip is a work in progress. Check back in a little while.
At the end of October I went to Sydney on a business trip. It was my fifth overseas trip in two months, and I was beginning to feel like I was a band on a tour or something.
I’d been to Sydney before, and hadn’t been very impressed. Somehow it didn’t seem like much more than a bunch of modern buildings, an opera house, a big park, and a lot of consrtuction; better than many cities around the world, but nothing to scream about either.
This time I saw a Sydney with a lot more character – plenty of Victorian buildings, a vinyl shop, a seedy area with good music, and a bit of London vibe. I also paid two visits to the massive botanical gardens (huge fan), and saw the opera house and harbour in both the evening light and in the morning light. Nice!
I went from this gig straight to the airport, stopping by my home to pick up my luggage. I took off at 1:45 AM, landed at noon, slept fitfully most of the way.
Downtown Sydney’s pretty.
Very pretty indeed!
Purple.
Victorian hall.
Old building.
Nice arcade.
See the swastikas inlaid in the CBA building facade?
Shoop!
Arcade.
Arcade.
Arcade elevator. I rode it!
I bought a Keith Richards LP here, and some books.
Weird park birds, part 1.
Weird park birds, part 2.
Sydney opera house at dusk.
Sydney opera house at dusk.
Sydney opera house at dusk.
Sydney harbour at dusk.
Sydney harbour bridge at dusk.
Sydney opera house at dusk.
Sydney opera house at dusk.
Sydney opera house roof tiles.
Sydney opera roof tiles.
Sydney harbour bridge.
Dinner olives – yum!
Dinner – yum!
Hyde Park lighting.
“Great Tunes” indeed!
Nice at night.
Nice at night again.
And nice at night again!
A Hyde Park morning.
Hyde Park morning.
Hyde Park gates.
More strange park birds.
Even more strange park birds.
Birds!
An island of birds, and one in flight.
Bird on grass.
Birds in tree!
Sydney opera house.
The opera house and the Knives of Summer CD.
Me ‘n’ my Chugga Ritual.
Cool tree.
Purple!
Big tree!.
Tree.
Sydney opera house in the morning.
Sydney harbour bridge in the morning.
Sydney opera house.
Sydney opera house and harbour bridge.
Sydney hospital, with a sausage shop under the stairs.
Seems very British still… or are there lions and unicorns in Aus?
Victorian?
The crown…
The Sydnagogue.
I wore this Acid Eater shirt in Sydney.
