Opera House open day

There was a big day of activities in Sydney yesterday, with the main one being Breakfast on the Bridge, when the Harbour Bridge was closed for the morning and 'turf' laid along its length for 6,000 people to picnic on the bridge. I think we missed any chance of getting in the draw for spaces on this, but then the 6.30 start wasn't a great attraction!

The weather held for this event, but another - the 7 Bridges Walk (which we did in 2006) - was taking place for most of the day and by mid-morning the heavens opened and remained very wet for much of the day, so we were glad we didn't participate this year! However, we still got wet, as Sue and I went with Rebecca to a free open day at the Opera House, where there were 3 tours to follow. We got there for the start at 10am and joined the long queues, although these moved quite quickly.

We were mostly interested in the backstage tour, which had some interesting moments but tended to be lots of corridors and staircases! We also went into the 2 main auditoriums - the concert hall we were familiar with, but hadn't seen the smaller opera theatre before, so the several hours were reasonably interesting! However, while we had been insider the rain had started and although we could get back to the ferry mostly under cover, I then got soaked collecting the car at the other end.