Long weekend (for me)
This weekend has been a great treat, with my birthday and Father's Day falling within several days of each other! I took Friday off, so Sue and I headed to Cremorne to catch the ferry across to the city. Just before we parked we passed a road where, we discovered later, a 'shady' businessman had been shot dead the night before in an apparent contract killing, so there was lots of police and press activity in the area.
Once in the city we walked around to the Opera House and the botanic gardens on the way to the Art Gallery of NSW - one of the places we had yet to visit. We spent some time looking around the galleries, which were a manageable size and reasonably interesting, before getting some lunch at the nearby Harry's 'Cafe de Wheels'. This is a well known kiosk near the naval base which has been there since 1945 and offers a good selection of pies!
Sue went for Harry's 'special', which was a meat pie with mashed potato and mushy peas on top - however, I couldn't face that so went for a more conservative chicken pie. Both were good fillers and kept us going for the rest of the day before we went out in the evening with the girls to a local Indian restaurant for dinner.
On Saturday we visited the Quarantine Station (now trendily renamed as the 'Q Station') at North Head, which was running an open day as part of the History Week events in the city. We joined a tour of the grounds and buildings, which have a great outlook over the harbour and Manly, and the place was used to quarantine sick passengers from the ships arriving with immigrants, before they were allowed into Sydney.
Many of the buildings have been renovated with a substantial investment over the past few years and now offers good accommodation and other events, as well as the ghost tours which have been running for years. The place still has a spooky feel about it, particularly in some of the buildings and rooms, and maybe if we feel brave enough we may go back for one of the night tours, or even the new sleepovers in the isolation block, which they are launching soon!
Once in the city we walked around to the Opera House and the botanic gardens on the way to the Art Gallery of NSW - one of the places we had yet to visit. We spent some time looking around the galleries, which were a manageable size and reasonably interesting, before getting some lunch at the nearby Harry's 'Cafe de Wheels'. This is a well known kiosk near the naval base which has been there since 1945 and offers a good selection of pies!
Sue went for Harry's 'special', which was a meat pie with mashed potato and mushy peas on top - however, I couldn't face that so went for a more conservative chicken pie. Both were good fillers and kept us going for the rest of the day before we went out in the evening with the girls to a local Indian restaurant for dinner.
On Saturday we visited the Quarantine Station (now trendily renamed as the 'Q Station') at North Head, which was running an open day as part of the History Week events in the city. We joined a tour of the grounds and buildings, which have a great outlook over the harbour and Manly, and the place was used to quarantine sick passengers from the ships arriving with immigrants, before they were allowed into Sydney.
Many of the buildings have been renovated with a substantial investment over the past few years and now offers good accommodation and other events, as well as the ghost tours which have been running for years. The place still has a spooky feel about it, particularly in some of the buildings and rooms, and maybe if we feel brave enough we may go back for one of the night tours, or even the new sleepovers in the isolation block, which they are launching soon!
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