Another week in Sydney! May 26, 2016 Another fun weekend in Sydney! What a great place to be outdoors! View fullsize My weekend house guest stopped by again on Friday morning, just as I was heading out the door. View fullsize Friday night dinner at a Nepalese restaurant in Glebe. View fullsize It's like Indian cuisine... but runnier? View fullsize Saturday morning, and we're off on an adventure. With a train to ourselves! View fullsize Central Station, where the Light Rail u-turns. View fullsize In Redfern, on our way to the Carriageworks. View fullsize A bustling Saturday farmer's market at Carriageworks! View fullsize Local produce from around NSW. View fullsize Lots of colorful "greens"! View fullsize Pepper's long-lost Australian cousin!! Same posture and personal grooming habits. View fullsize This little wiener dog had his eye on the prize: drippings from the barbecue above. View fullsize Apart from veggies, there were also fresh flowers... View fullsize ... and fresh baked goods! View fullsize Local artist "busking" for change. View fullsize The Carriageworks used to be the site of the Eveleigh Rail Yards in the late 1800s, where train carriages for Sydney's expanding rail network were built from scratch. View fullsize Diners, as seen through massive hydraulic presses. View fullsize Twin Westies. View fullsize Posing with my locally grown-and-brewed (that's right: the beans were grown and brewed right here in NSW!) coffee. View fullsize Also happening at the Carriageworks this weekend: Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week Australia. View fullsize Iconic something-or-other at the Carriageworks. View fullsize I guess it was garbage day! View fullsize Making our way back through the campus of the University of Sydney. View fullsize Whoops! Someone had an accident! View fullsize Sign on push door: "Beware of Sliding Door". What a great design! View fullsize The University Lawn and the famous Quadrangle. View fullsize The Quadrangle design is based on those of Oxford and Cambridge -- I knew it looked familiar! View fullsize The Quadrangle apparently took over 100 years to complete: construction started in 1855 and finished in the 1960s. View fullsize A great roundabout in the Chippendale residential neighborhood. View fullsize Food for the Future: a public food garden in Chippendale. View fullsize A little mosaic inside Peace Park in Chippendale. View fullsize Someone mature took this photo. View fullsize Inside the White Rabbit Gallery, a private collection of 21st-century Chinese contemporary art. View fullsize This sculpture, entitled "European Thousand-Armed Sculpture" by Xu Zhen, align to form a Buddhist Deity when viewed from the front. View fullsize And here, from above. View fullsize This is He Xiangyu’s "Tank Project", an extremely impressive (deflated) replica of a Soviet-Chinese tank made entirely from hand-stitched leather. View fullsize Check out the detail -- and the handles. It's meant to be a massive handbag. View fullsize Another floor. View fullsize These look like photos of sculptures, but they're actually paintings! View fullsize These leaves are all hand-painted porcelain! View fullsize Organic creatures climbing up the wall. View fullsize This knitting is made out of the pages of a dictionary. View fullsize The massive "Central Park Mall" complex, with lots of public green space. View fullsize Pausing for a lunch break - freshly made cheese breads from the morning's farmers' market. View fullsize Playing a full-family game of chess. View fullsize And a very large Connect-Four. View fullsize I know many people who would agree with this mantra! View fullsize Strolling through the edge of Chinatown, where there are many a Thai Massage joints. View fullsize "Gold Water Mouth" -- a gold-plated Eucalyptus trunk -- marks the entrance to Chinatown. View fullsize Back at Town Hall, street performers entertain on Saturday afternoon. View fullsize At the Pitt Street Mall, a young street performer entertains his fair share of a crowd. View fullsize Inside the famous Strand Arcade shopping complex. View fullsize A new birdcage art installation tucked inside a small laneway in the CBD. View fullsize Great view from the lobby of the Museum of Contemporary Art. View fullsize Saturday afternoon at the Rocks Markets, a hodgepodge of sellers coming together in the posh neighborhood. View fullsize Here, some street food. View fullsize A colorful grill! View fullsize Hot roasted chestnuts reduced to clear? Something tells me this isn't quite the flash sale he's making it out to be. View fullsize This pup must be tuckered out from a long day of shopping. View fullsize More stalls in the historic neighborhood. View fullsize These tents look awfully permanent! View fullsize Soontaree. Straight from Thailand! View fullsize The Walsh Bay area, just to the west of the bridge. It's recently been restored and reopened to the public. View fullsize Prime pier real estate at the foot of the bridge. View fullsize Great views of dinner cruises and Luna Park, too. View fullsize Not a bad place to live! I wonder how much these condos go for. View fullsize A stroll through Barangaroo Reserve, at the northern tip of Darling Harbour. Would you know it, it's not even 5:30pm! View fullsize Night lights! View fullsize Dinner at our favorite Chinese Vegetarian joint! View fullsize The next morning, it's a dig-off in downtown Sydney. View fullsize Time to venture into Darling Harbour. Despite overlooking it from my hotel the other week, I haven't yet paid it a visit. View fullsize Great weather for cycling and running. View fullsize It's a pretty touristy place. The ship belongs to the Australian National Maritime Museum. View fullsize Over on the Pyrmont side of the harbour... View fullsize ... things feel awfully like Kendall Square, Cambridge. View fullsize Here we are at the Sydney Fish Market. View fullsize It's the largest Fish Market in the Southern Hemisphere! View fullsize There were surprising numbers of people eating fresh seafood - before 11am! View fullsize That's one way to cook a clam! View fullsize Fresh and colorful. Pleasing on the eyes, even if I don't eat it! View fullsize No shortage of colorful juices either. View fullsize Colorful local fruit. Can't find all of these in Thailand! View fullsize The Anzac Bridge and Blackwattle Bay. View fullsize Having a stare-down with his new friends. View fullsize These seagulls are waiting for their ride back to sea. View fullsize Taking the light rail back to Chinatown. View fullsize Visiting the Chinese Garden of Friendship. View fullsize The garden was designed by Sydney's Chinese sister city, Guangzhou, and gifted to Sydney in the 1990s. View fullsize A very large and creepy spider blends in with the leaves behind it. View fullsize Costume rental available, for your own photoshoot. View fullsize I guess locals have figured out that Bamboo makes a great canvas for carvings. View fullsize Venturing into the black bamboo. View fullsize The Golden Pagoda centrepiece of the garden. View fullsize This local ibis bit off more than he could chew (and swallow)! View fullsize Aww! Time to see off my visitor. Lucky for him, he has an express path pass! View fullsize Ready to run the 8.5 km back to the city center!
