Australia has a handful of icons that are instantly recognisable. Uluru, kangaroos and koalas, the Opera House, Hugh Jackman, the Sydney Harbour Bridge (affectionately known as the coathanger.) This weekend just passed saw Sydney, a city that just loves an excuse to party, celebrating the bridge's
75th Anniversary. Hundreds of thousands walked the bridge (see picture) and after sunset watched a cool light show from vantage points around the harbour. No fireworks this time, a good call since they've been done already this year for New Year's and Australia Day. Apparently a crowd of 750,000 turned out for the opening 75 years ago. Now THAT'S a party!
Labels: Australian life, Sydney
I've seen the iconic Sydney landmark more times than I can count, yet I still reach for my camera and click-click-click every time I'm this close. It's just so...Sydney. The skyline would be empty without those white sails, and I guess that is why the Opera House appears on so many covers of romance novels. Often placed in completely unbelievable locations. I saw one recently with it visible in the background of a surfbeach. Um, no, not really. Have also seen it combined with the Harbour Bridge in ways that defy perception. It has even graced the cover of one of my foreign copies (see below.) Do you have a favourite landmark or building that you can't help snapping whenever you see it?
Labels: Australian life, holidays, Sydney
While on holidays we took a ferry to the city and strolled around The Rocks, which is the oldest part of the city and the site of the first white settlement in Sydney. We didn't expect to stumble across a movie set but we did. A Bollywood movie set, as it happened. I could have stood and watched for hours, but my husband wasn't nearly so entranced by the colour and the pretty people and the megaphones and the song-and-dance routines or even the clown. Pity. Because, as the title suggests, this is not something one sees every day.
Labels: Bollywood, holidays, Sydney
