For this blog S & P would like to take you on a journey across the sunburnt country, an excursion if you will, to see the fabulous sights of Ole Sydney Town.
Being ridiculously lucky we won a weekend in Sydney and tickets to a red carpet movie premeire for 2, all expenses paid for. A fact we felt everyone we knew (or even didn't know) should be informed of. A task we took to with the greatest enthusiasm.
Sydney has a reputation as being very multicultural and to this we can attest as our first experience was being driven to the hotel by a taxi driver with a thick accent. As practiced linguists we accertained that English was his second language and he came from the southern regions of Macedonia some 10 or 15 years ago. As an immigrant one would think he would understand what it is like to be mariginalised yet this did not stop him from roundly critiquing the inhabitants of Redfern.
One criticism of Sydney we had is that streets in Sydney go around corners. It is ridiculous! You get given the name of a street and walk up and down for half an hour in high heels on a bitterly cold night only to discover that the street that dissects is the same street that is being dissected. A pox on George Street!!! Seriously who designed Sydney CBD? ADD children? Which brings us to the second criticism of Sydney: children. More specifically children at the Taronga zoo. More specifically children watching the penguin keeper talk on Saturday afternoon. This one child pushed and shoved P, talked loudly during the presentation and pushed and kicked S. He soon desisted after the Swift Foot of Justice was rightfully administered by S.
We did love Sydney to bits. Great food, shopping, coffee, ferries, markets, patisseries, street performers, pubs, cultural features and the world's most exciting hand dryers in the public toilets at Circular Quay.
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