Air travel, these days
Everybody complains about air travel, but I am going to offer some words of praise, or at least defense.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
We don’t go to art galleries and museums very often. Mainly when we travel and they are free! The Art Gallery of NSW was a real find for a rainy day – free art AND free wifi. Here are some of our favourite exhibits or installations (what does that mean, anyway?) or pieces, or works of art, or…
Made it to Sydney
Driving Navigating in the countryside is fine, but I’m glad to be rid of the car now that we have made our way into the city. Too bad we didn’t own a nice boat – the harbour is constantly busy.
Do you know where the Southern Cross is?
That’s what my husband asked a fellow (but somewhat younger) hosteller. Hubbie was studying the sky, and the other fellow (Irish, it turned out, to no surprise) was hanging his laundry outside as darkness fell in the Hunter Valley. The Irish guy said, in all seriousness, “is that a pub?”
Phew! Hot in the Hunter Valley
It is in the mid-30s here in the wine-producing Hunter Valley, 150 km from Sydney.
Subtropical rainforest walks and small wildlife
We have walked through several areas of subtropical rainforest. This was taken from the “skywalk” on Dorrigo National Park on the Waterfall Way going inland from the coast to Armidale.
Brisbane to Sydney road trip – church in Broadwater, New South Wales
Approaching Broadwater, we stopped to look at the sugar cane fields along the highway. Pulling onto a side road, we found ourselves in the parking lot of a church undergoing restoration and conversion to another use.
Brisbane City Cat ferry
Brisbane’s public transit system includes ferries zipping to and fro up and down and across the river. During commuting hours, there are many more people on board, as the river loops through a population of over 2 million.
Seeing Clarely 