Free public transport in Sydney over Easter, so we took the chance to travel on the light rail from Circular Quay to Randwick, then back towards central to go to Reuben Hills cafe for a (locally roasted) coffee and cake.
Posts Tagged ‘Things to do in Sydney’
Reuben Hills Cafe
Posted: May 22, 2022 in buy localTags: buy local, Sydney, Things to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
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Circa Espresso
Posted: May 22, 2022 in buy local, Cafe, dogsTags: Local, Sydney, Things to do in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney
This cafe in Parramatta, just south of the train station, roasts its own coffee and does a delicious breakfast.
Choco Cannelle
Posted: May 22, 2022 in buy localTags: buy local, Sydney, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
Look, it can’t always be about alcohol!
So this weekend we visited a local artisan French baker in Ryde.
Coco Cannelle in North Ryde.
Just like being in France, and if the queue out the door to buy on a Saturday morning is any indication, everything they have here is pretty special!
Bath
Posted: June 16, 2021 in Europe in Australia, Sydney StreetsTags: Europe in Australia, Sydney, Things to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
So this weekend we revisited beautiful Bath.
Unfortunately, we couldn’t find the gorgeous Royal Crescent, that row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent.
We’ll have to look harder next time we visit.
Bath St Monterey/ 
Bath St Monterey/ 
Bath St Monterey/ 
Fishing… really?
Irish Walk (Sydney)
Posted: September 16, 2019 in history, Sydney StreetsTags: irish, Local, sydney colony, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
So, this weekend, we followed a City of Sydney Irish walk which took as through some of the significant places where events concerning Irish immigrants in the young colony of Sydney occurred.
We learnt that
- about 20,000 people were in Hyde Park on St Patrick’s Day in 1878 when there was an anti-Catholic riot.
- that monument on the road at the top of the hill near St Mary’s Cathedral on the road to the Art Gallery was just a drinking fountain.
- There’s a significant Irish Famine memorial at Hyde Park Barracks. Really cleverly done, it shows a dining table divided by a wall.
- During the six years of great Irish Famine, when their potato crop was ruined by potato blight, about one million died and another one million left Ireland. The memorial remembers the 4114 orphan girls who were shipped to the Australian colonies. Some married, others were employed for different domestic work.
- The original Martin Place only ran between George and Pitt Streets.
Drinking Fountain
Irish Famine Memorial at Hyde Park Barracks
Irish Famine Memorial at Hyde Park Barracks
State Library
The windows are inspired by the Book of Kells
St Mary’s Cathedral
St Mary’s Cathedral
Callan Park
Posted: July 21, 2019 in history, Inner WestTags: dog parks, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, walking inner Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
We went for a walk with the pup around Callan Park, 60ha site in Lilyfield near the Iron Cove Bridge.
It became famous as a psychiatric hospital (Callan Park Hospital for the Insane) which was in use until 1994.
Thne buildings are now occupied by the Sydney College of the Arts.
The Bay Run runs through the park along the foreshore of Iron Cove.
Lots of off leash dog area to roam. Some beautiful old buildings in what was a very sad place for so many people. You’d like to think we are a bit better these days at caring for those struggling with mental health.
Blue’s Point Rd, North Sydney
Posted: June 22, 2019 in history, Sydney StreetsTags: Sydney History, Sydney Streets, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
Our new pup Indie’s first proper walk. We forgot to take a pic of her first cafe outing!
A wander down this lovely strip this afternoon, following this guide from North Sydney Council.
We’ve walked down this street before and never noticed the former Presbyterian School Hall
1976! 1976! This chimney standing beside the fence at 126 Blues Point Rd belonged to a small cottage built in the 1860s. It was the last in the municipality to have electricity connected in 1976.
Skirting Sydney
Posted: May 5, 2019 in Sydney StreetsTags: Sydney, Sydney History, Sydney Streets, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney
This weekend we followed a tour from https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au called Skirting Sydney.
It focused on The Rocks and around Martin Place. This tour pinpoints key sites where girls and women lived and worked, where they were educated and entertained, and where pioneering activist women held meetings, published journals and sometimes in the process expanded the possibilities for all women’s lives.
Good stuff.
Matthew Cl, St Ives
Posted: March 4, 2018 in Sydney StreetsTags: bicycle, cycle, Sydney, Sydney Streets, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
Elder son, Matt. (Whoops, already done Matthew St in Crows Nest! #favouritechild?? LOL)
Such a range of houses around St Ives. Rundown bungalows strewn with rubbish, huge houses with manicured gardens, even old houses with horses in the adjoining paddock (2 horses on a block, probably about $1million per horse!)
Lord Dudley
Posted: January 9, 2018 in Drinking at the local hotelTags: Beer, festival, Hotel, Local, Local Hotel, Local pub, Pub, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, weekends, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
The Dudley at Paddington is a busy local between Paddington and Rushcutters Bay.
BUSY on Christmas Eve, but each year we always go a park at Rushcutters Bay right next to the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia where we picnic and wander among the boats before they start the Sydney to Hobart.
So, this weekend, we... 