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Week 43 ~ Q is for Suzie Q and The Queen Vic Hotel

Q. An excuse to visit a pub starting with Q, and a coffee and cake.

Unfortunately, a bit of a debacle!

The Queen Victoria Hotel, opposite the Enmore Theatre at Enmore was closed for a renovation (well, actually, the gaming room was still open!) so off to Suzie Q cafe near the SCG – closed at 4pm! Grrrr!

Still, a nice walk around the areas 🙂 Think positive!

Such a shame this wasn’t open for a beer… we’ll be back!

Funky artwork in a factory/foundry/art studio behind the Queen Vic.

Silo conversion

Glassworks

Not quite sure what was happening with this! Decorative telegraph pole

Week 42 ~ P is for Pittwater

Posted: October 17, 2015 in Cafe
Tags: pittwater, Sydney, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

As Peter Fitzimons is fond of saying – Gotta love this city!

Less than 25 kilometres as the crow flies from the CBD, Church Point, opposite Scotland Island on Pittwater, north of Sydney.

Just beautiful. Idyllic setting; runabouts doing the Saturday morning shopping and run-around, lanyards slapping against masts, kayaks, fishing, walking, running, cycling.

A beautiful part of Sydney. Breakfast at the The Waterfront Store cafe and then a walk – what a great start to the weekend.

Next door, The Pasadena Motel and Restaurant – closed for the past 6 years after court action regarding its redevelopment – prime site, someone’s losing a lot of money.

The Waterfront Cafe on Pittwater at Church Point

Pittwater, Church Point

Pasadena Motel and Restaurant – closed for the past 6 years

Week 41 ~ O is for Opera Bar

Posted: October 10, 2015 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: barangaroo, opera house, Sydney, Sydney Harbour, Sydney History, Sydney weekends, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

A new arrival in Sydney – Barangaroo.

On the headland just west of the Harbour Bridge is Sydney’s newest urban park. Barangaroo was a local Kamaraygal woman who was the second wife of Bennelong, an important interlocutor between the Aboriginal people and the early British colonists in New South Wales. (wikipedia)

We wandered around this new park (it’s quite beautiful) and then made our way around the foreshore to the Opera Bar for a drink at the Opera House before a walk through the Botanical Gardens and home.

Quite lovely.

Looking south from Barangaroo towards Glebe

Looking west towards Balmain

Drinks at the Opera Bar

Week 37 ~ K is for Kissing Point

Posted: September 12, 2015 in Cafe
Tags: beehive, breakfast, Lane Cove National Park, Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

There’s Kissing Points everywhere…
Fun fact: Historically, when a boat needed to have work done on the keel, the owner would float it up onto a sandy point at high tide and let the keel “kiss” the sand. Then when the tide went out, they could work on the boat.

We had to be up at Robyn’s work at Pymble on Saturday morning, so we had breakie at the Vertical Espresso cafe at Kissing Point Rd in Turramurra and then went for a walk through Lane Cove National Park between Turramurra and North Epping.

Beautiful Sydney spring morning. Great start to the weekend.

Vertical Espresso

Didn’t realize how close to Epping North we were

First time I’ve ever seen a beehive like this

Hard to believe we are only 16 km from the Sydney CBD

Week 35 ~ I is for ‘igh Tea at the Hydro Majestic

Posted: September 4, 2015 in Cafe, Driving NSW
Tags: blue mountains, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

Yes, I know it’s a complete cop-out… but we had a lovely day in the Blue Mountains staying at my sister’s house at Hazelbrook while she’s away riding Route 66.

We did a few touristy things – morning tea at the Carrington Hotel at Katoomba

Visited the 3 sisters and Evans Lookout before High Tea at the Hydro Majestic at Medlow Bath.

They have done a beautiful job refurbishing this hotel – it’s obvious they’ve spent millions on the renovations and extensions.

Cold beer and champagne, beautiful live piano music in the background and delicious high tea.

Can highly recommend it. A great day out.

Morning Tea at the Carrington at Katoomba

Views over Megalong Valley

High Tea at the Hydro Majestic

Week 33 ~ G is for Gladesville Hospital

Posted: August 16, 2015 in Walking
Tags: Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney History, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

We bought our first home unit at Gladesville in 1983 and lived there for a few years, but never visited the site of the former Gladesville “Mental Hospital”, a psychiatric hospital, established in 1838 in Gladesville. Its original name was Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum.

It’s located at Bedlam Point. Those of you who don’t get that connection > look here

It was purpose built to house “lunatics” in 1838, and apparently was a genuine attempt to improve the treatment of the mentally ill, allowing relatives to visit, patients to have access to recreational facilities and worthwhile work in what were once beautiful grounds.

In 1997, all inpatient services were consolidated at the Macquarie (North Ryde) site in Wicks Road.

Beautiful grounds

The pool looks a bit tired, but was probably once pretty advanced for a psych hospital.

Bedlam Point (not joking… it really is called that)

Gorgeous old fig by the water

One of these graves is that of a patient who was a resident there for more than 60 years

Had no idea there was a tunnel under Victoria Road

Imagine being housed in wings like this for perhaps years and years. Imagine the tears shed by inmates and families visiting.

Week 27 ~ A is for Art

Posted: July 4, 2015 in Cafe
Tags: cafe, kids hospital, Sydney, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

Back to the letter A again 🙂

Westmead Kids’ Hospital (The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children Hospital at Westmead, near Parramatta) runs an annual art competition for school children. From the thousands of entries, the best 50 are selected and framed and displayed on the walls of the corridors of the wards.

This has been happening for years, and as a result there’s hundreds of paintings that brighten the walls and corridors for the hundreds of sick kids and their parents, some of whom spend months and months within the confines of the hospital.

Even tough this year’s competition hasn’t been judged, we enjoyed what we saw from previous years.

http://bandagedbear.org.au/schools/operation-art/

This gorgeous Panda is a collage pasted onto newsprint.

My Daddy is a lady beetle

Afterwards, we dropped in to Parramatta Park for a coffee at Lachlan’s Cafe.Crap coffee, nice spot though.

Week 26 ~ Z is for Zebra Lounge

Posted: June 29, 2015 in Cafe, Sydney Harbour, Walking
Tags: breakfast, cafe, Jacksons Landing, Pyrmont, Sydney, Sydney Harbour, Sydney History, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

Right at the end of Harris St (no. 1 Harris), by the water at Pyrmont, is the Zebra Lounge.

We had a beautiful breakfast there – delicious food and fantastic presentation. Coffees were a bit slow, but otherwise, can highly recommend it.

This Jackson’s landing area has been really nicely done so it’s a great place to have a wander afterwards.

This site has some history about the area, and its links to CSR, and there’s a fabulous photo gallery as well.

Week 24 ~ X is for eXhibition

Posted: June 13, 2015 in Cafe, show
Tags: images, photos, Sydney, Sydney weekends, this weekend in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

The last few years we’ve gone to the World Press Photo Exhibition at the State Library in Macquarie St and enjoyed it, so we went again today.

Lots of confronting images of war, death, poverty , illness, mental health, disease and deprivation, as well as sport, science, politics and the like.

Such a reinforcement of how lucky we are to live in Australia, and how important it is to work to maintain the peace and freedom we so often take for granted.

It was also a great opportunity to catch up with Annie and Stephen McRobie after their fabulous Spain and Morocco holiday over breakfast at the Circular Quay Pullman Q Dining

Great start to the weekend.

Week 22 ~ V is for Vivid

Posted: May 31, 2015 in show, Walking
Tags: lighting, Sydney, Sydney Harbour, Things to do in Sydney, vivid, What to do in Sydney this weekend

Sydney’s annual Vivid festival – an annual outdoor lighting festival with light installations and projections. read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivid_Sydney

Nice 🙂

We filmed a bit of Vivid from the top of the MCA

Drums in Martin Place

From the Overseas Passenger Terminal

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