My Staycation

May 17, 2013 By 2 Comments
Sydney Opera House

"It's all too easy to take a nice photograph in Sydney", I thought to myself as I walked around Circular Quay yesterday. A minute or so earlier I'd been stopped by a tourist who asked if I'd take a photograph of him with the Opera House in the background. Too easy. And as I made my way towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge, I looked over at the Opera House, and there it was, with a stunning cloudy sky in the background, and a woman wearing a head-scarf, sitting by herself, chatting on a mobile … [Read more...]

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Packing Up

February 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Packing Up Exhibition

There was a slight tinge of sadness as we packed up the Chinese New Year Exhibition at Sydney Town Hall. Unlike setting up an exhibition which is all about the future, bumping out an exhibition is all about the end of something. My friend Kate has done an amazing job putting all this together, and so of course I wanted to be there to help at the less-glamorous end of things. Everyone last night did an amazing job, dealing with bubble wrap, sticky tap, screw-drivers and the like. And … [Read more...]

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The Eat In – Chippendale, Sydney

February 10, 2013 By 2 Comments
The Eat In, Kensington Street, Chippendale, Sydney

"This is only our fifth night", the waiter told us, when we asked how long "The Eat In" had been operating as a pop-up restaurant in the converted warehouse in Sydney's Chippendale. The space the restaurant inhabits consisted of two main parts: a large darkened, and seemingly unused area on the left, and kitchen/dining area on the right. There's little demarcation in the space between where the staff prepare the food, and where patrons, seated at long tables consume it. It was terrific to … [Read more...]

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Christmas Drinks

December 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
Christmas lights on the dance-floor at Palms.

You know how they say "Oxford Street is dead", these days? Well last night it certainly wasn't with quite a few of the clubs heavily packed. I wouldn't normally go out on a Saturday night, but we had a visitor from Melbourne who was keen to see a little of what Sydney had to offer in the way of gay venues. In what turned out to be a mini "pub crawl" we visited three venues, and walked past two others, all of which were very, very full. Ten years ago this would have been a regular thing for … [Read more...]

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Luciatåg i Sydney

November 24, 2012 By 2 Comments
Lucia Ceremony in Sydney

Over the years I've seen and read a fair bit about the Lucia Day celebrations in Sweden. Until today, however, I've never actually seen one in the flesh. It was a real draw-card for me today as I headed to the "Julmarknad" ("Christmas Market") held at Sydney's Lutheran Church in Goulburn Street. Despite the name and decorations, the Martin-Luther-Kirche in Sydney is not only a German Church, but also a Swedish Church. Regular church services in Swedish are held there. There's also the nearby … [Read more...]

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Sydney Open

November 4, 2012 By 2 Comments
Looking Upwards at 1 Bligh Street, Sydney

"The crowds aren't anywhere as big as last year", a former colleague, Anna told me as we chatted in the foyer of Deutsche Bank in Sydney. Although it's been a couple of years since I've been to a Sydney Open, I had to agree. The last time I went was maybe four or five years ago, and there were often lengthy queues to get into most of the buildings. I think part of the problem may be that some of the buildings this year weren't that interesting. As my friend Sue and I went through the brochure … [Read more...]

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