We moved out of our house the end of September last year. We spent about five weeks in America, then came back to our van. The end of November we started our life on the road. By the time we got to Sydney, we’d been living in our van for six months. Six months! The kids are calling this journey our ‘one-year trip’. At this point I’m pretty sure it will be longer than a year. We don’t have a … Read More
The day we went to the Pylon Lookout we first walked over by the opera house. You can’t go there and not go see the opera house. You get a great view of the bridge on the way there. This is looking back into Circular Quay. You can see all the tables for the nearby cafes. And all the seagulls waiting for people to leave their tables. Really, the opera house is hard to photograph up close. It looks prettier … Read More
We happened to be in Sydney when the Vivid festival started this year. We hadn’t planned it, but I am so glad we were there for it! Vivid is unique to Sydney and it’s just spectacular. There are several aspects to Vivid. We came into the city one evening to view the light installations. Since it’s winter it gets dark before six, so we came into the city early. Even with that, it was a very late night for us. … Read More
Sydney Olympic Park is rather large! We’d read that there are something like 35 km of bike trails there, so we decided to load up the bikes and have a look. It would have taken over an hour on to get there by train but less than thirty minutes driving, and there is plenty of parking there, so we decided to make the drive. When we travel we have four bikes on top of the car and one, Ladybug’s, in … Read More
With our Melbourne Museum membership there are several museums around the country that we can get into for free. I think there were three in Sydney, but we only went to the Powerhouse Museum. We came straight to Sydney from Canberra and we were all museum-ed out. :) We weren’t quite sure what to expect a this museum, they have everything from a hands-on science section to a history of underwear display to a Wiggles exhibit. Quite the variety. To … Read More
We needed an excuse to ride the ferry. Okay, not really, but having a destination is a good idea rather than randomly riding the ferries around with kids. So Cockatoo Island it was! Being on the water gives you such a good view of the bridge and the opera house. There’s a sticker or something on JitterBug’s forehead. It isn’t your computer screen! Hey, look, we were inside that pylon! We walked across that bridge! If you zoom out on … Read More