White Rabbit Gallery & One Central Park’s Heliostat – Sydney
16 June 2019 | Culture
I stayed at the interesting Old Clare Hotel in the Sydney central suburb of Chippendale during the recent Sydney Writers Festival. That’s easy walking distance from Central Station, the main Sydney railway station and connected directly to Sydney Airport.
▲ A short...
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Sydney Walks
21 February 2019 | Places
Walking was the order of the day on a recent trip to Sydney with a bunch of friends. The city has great walks, harbour side and ocean side.
◄ We started with the 10km harbour side walk from Spit Bridge (Mosman on the North Shore) to Manly, which is on Sydney ...
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The Good Cat Trim
21 March 2017 | Places
It won’t be published until 2018, but I’ve already put a lot of work into a forthcoming book for the National Library of Australia to be titled Australia’s Islands. There are an awful lot of them, more than 8000, more islands in fact than there are in the Caribbean. T...
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Sydney, a Secret Garden, Brett Whiteley
23 January 2016 | Media
▲ I was in Sydney for New Year’s Eve, here are the midnight fireworks on the Harbour Bridge.
◄ The next day with a bunch of friends I took the ferry from Circular Quay across to McMahon’s Point and we walk back alongside Lavender Bay to Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Gard...
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Up the Arcelor Mittal Orbit & in an Anish Kapoor Mirror
20 April 2013 | Culture
The Arcelor Mittal Orbit is the weirdly twisting tower constructed for the 2012 Olympics in London. The whole Olympic Park is in the process of being redeveloped so hardly any of it is currently open to the public. You can visit the tower and zip up to the 80 metr...
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