Sydney travel blog day 5
Thursday 19 January 2023 More Randwick Art Deco It was a gloomy overcast morning after the overnight rain. I decided to go out to find the last building from the Randwick Art Deco walk, the one I’d misidentified yesterday as having been demolished. This was 132 Alison Road, which...
Sydney travel blog day 4
Wednesday 18 January 2023 Too hot to do anything Today, the news reported gleefully, people in Sydney would enjoy their first day of 30 degrees for almost a year. Hooray? The words “enjoy” and “30 degrees” do not belong in the same sentence any more than the word “enjoy”...
Sydney travel blog day 3
Tuesday 17 January 2023 Randwick Art Deco According to the handy Randwick Art Deco Walk brochure from Randwick City Council, in the 1920s-1940s, when Art Deco was particularly popular, there was an “explosion of residential building activity in Randwick and Coogee, catering for the boom in population between the...
Sydney travel blog day 2
Monday 16 January 2023 Photowalking at UNSW After yesterday’s wander around the University of NSW campus, I was looking forward to getting back there this morning and taking photos. I had about an hour and half to explore at first light, which wasn’t the greatest for some of the...
Sydney travel blog day 1
Sunday 15 January 2023 Travel blogging is still a thing Back in the days when TravelPod was a thing, I used to write travel blogs whenever I went on holiday. It was a fun way to keep track of where I’d been, what I’d done and what I’d seen....
P365 – Day 255 – travel-log day 2 (12/09/2011)
Today’s schedule: Sleep in. Drive from Adaminaby to Tumut, through Kusciuszko National Park, stopping to visit the Yarrangobilly Caves. It was a clear sunny morning, and there were no reports of snow on the road, so we were confident we’d have an uneventful trip across the mountains. The ‘high...
P365 – Day 254 – travel-log day 1 (11/09/2011)
Today’s schedule: Get up at 4.00 am for a 6.00 am flight to Canberra via Melbourne. Pick up hire car. Drive to Adaminaby via Cooma. The map Slabs and I gave Juniordwarf his own little trolley case as an advance birthday present yesterday, so he could have his things...
P365 – Day 83 feeling kinda arty* (aka ‘on art & writing’ part 2) 24/03/2011
Part 1. Writing is a major part of my work, and has been in pretty much all of the positions that I’ve held during public service jobs in various departments, both federal and state government. But it’s not the type of writing I enjoyed as a child, so even...
sunday selections – fence posts
Some photos for Sunday Selections over at Frogpondsrock‘s blog. I recently blogged about how I like to get where I’m going as quickly as possible and not get held up on the way. This isn’t always true. Sometimes I think it’s fun to take a different road just to...