This is not intended as a warning against visiting Garden Island (or that part of it you are permitted to visit) but rather advise on how to get there lest you waste time trying to access it via any way other than the ferry wharf on the northern tip of the island (which is no longer an island). Continue reading “Wrong Way to Garden Island”
Woolloomooloo (or the Loo) is an inner-city harbour-side suburb adjoining Sydney’s central business district. It has traditionally been a working class residential suburb housing waterside workers and their families – a latter days version of the Rocks, if you like. Of late, gentrification has taken place. Continue reading “Saving the Loo – Woolloomooloo Murals”
Where did Colonel Sanders, Frank Sinatra and Marlene Dietrich dine out when they came to Sydney? Well, the original Harry’s Café de Wheels in the suburb of Woolloomooloo, of course! Continue reading “Harry’s Café de Wheels: “For a Tiger Pie””
Wandering around the delightfully named suburb of Woolloomooloo I came across a small building called First Fleet House. The shingle above the entrance announced this to be the business premises of the Fellowship of First Fleeters (1788AD). Above the shingle a Union Jack proudly fluttered in the light breeze. Continue reading “The Fellowship of First Fleeters”
I have written a number of reviews on this page enticing my reader to visit the inner city suburb of Woolloomooloo.
An overseas friend expressed an interest in visiting one of the sights I have written about, along with the hope that he would not have to ask somebody the way to Woolloomooloo. Continue reading “Woolloomooloo – How do I say that?”
Victoria Park is a small, nine hectare, triangular park nestled between the busy Parramatta and City Roads and the University of Sydney. Given its small size and the constant traffic on the adjacent roads I imagined it might be noisy and not at all peaceful. This is not so, probably because it is set at a level slightly lower than the roads, though I am no expert on acoustics. Continue reading “Victoria Park”
The University of Sydney Art Gallery has in excess of 7,000 artworks by Australian, European and Asian artists, collected since 1850. This collection includes paintings, watercolours, drawings, textiles, sculptures and much more. Continue reading “University Art Gallery – Lost for Words”
What a great and unexpected treasure that I more or less stumbled upon here.
The Nicholson Antiquity Museum in the University of Sydney has the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern Hemisphere (don’t get over excited, it’s still a small museum viewable in detail in an hour). While having no world famous pieces it has quite a range of things tastily displayed and labelled and, as such, is well worth a visit. Continue reading “University of Sydney – Nicholson Museum”
The first thing I must say about this small but wonderful natural history museum is that it on the top floor of the Macleay Building on Science Road and you must enter the building at the end furthest away from the University of Sydney’s Great Hall (where you will see a sign for the museum) and not the other end as I did, only to have to clamber back down three flights of stairs and up them again at the correct end of the building. Continue reading “Macleay Museum – University of Sydney”
I had not planned on visiting the University of Sydney but one Sunday morning I was having a look around Victoria Park before heading into the suburb of Glebe to do a bit of exploring when I noticed the clock tower of the university from the park and decided to go up and have a quick look at the building. Continue reading “University of Sydney”
The Rambling Wombat 