Day 33: Sydney

Another day in Syndey and we decide to have a look at the little boutiques and glamorous shops that are up in the Paddington area. Rather than a definite area, it turns out that the shops are generally dotted around the place, so we're not sure that we really ever found the main part of it. We did see lots of lovely little areas though.
I'm particularly taken with the style of old terrace house they have here - each one with different coloured walls, but all with intricate iron railings and cornices on the open terraces/balconies. Hopefully Dan has some good shots of these as I usefully left my camera in the hotel.

Come lunchtime, Dan went off to Bondi to meet an old friend and I perused the shops heading back into the CBD. Bought many exciting things including a catering standard piping bag. Oh yes, stand back in awe and please don't try to keep up!

It was really nice to just wander the streets and it was good to be able to get a sense of how all the streets actually nit together and be able to navigate around. I looked in at the QVB - the Queen Victoria Building, which is a renovated building dating from around 1880. It takes up an entire city block, and it now a shopping mall - but a very posh one. The upper levels and carpeted for heaven's sake.


In the evening we head to Darling Harbour again for a nice dinner - I go for the soft shelled crab, which is nice but unfortunately has been breaded then fried, which wasn't on the description at all. This means that the meal ends up being a lot heavier than we thought it would be. Also the portions of the side orders are absolutely ginormous. The little salad could easily feed four people and the wire basket of chips is difficult to see over.

Tomorrow: we get a bit blue in the mountains.