Category Archives: sydney

>What’s in a degree?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Victor

> It’s strange how cold Sydney can feel. We have such mild temperatures in winter compared with other cities in Australia and overseas and yet I’m sure I’ve felt colder here than in those. Yesterday I returned to Sydney after … Continue reading →

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>Arriving home

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Victor

>About to land in Sydney at around 6.20am… …cold and raining cats and dogs.

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>The Fang

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Victor

> I had lunch with Kn today at the Golden Fang on City Road next to Broadway. He eats there on average two/three times a week. It’s location across the road from his job at Sydney University makes the restaurant very … Continue reading →

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>By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea…

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Victor

>Gee it’s a beautiful autumn day in Sydney today with a cloudless blue sky and my mobile phone telling me our temperature is a balmy 18.9c. Earlier this afternoon I spent an hour sitting on a bench in Beare Park in … Continue reading →

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>Not long now

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Victor

>I’ve been a bit quiet the past few days partly because of the cold weather that has hit Sydney with snow on the mountains to our west but more so because it is just over a week until we fly … Continue reading →

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>Does it fit, sir?

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Victor

>I made a rare visit into town yesterday to meet a friend visiting from Canberra. I decided to arrive early, very early, to do some shopping I would otherwise normally do in the suburbs. Passing through Pitt Street Mall I … Continue reading →

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>How good was Friday?

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Victor

>Too often in my memory Sydney has endured wet Easters. And I mean really wet. I still remember Easter 1988 when it rained for the entire four day weekend…non stop. Mt stayed with me for that weekend and we visited … Continue reading →

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>The Passion

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Victor

>The good Burghers of Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs observing their religious practice this fine Good Friday morning by partaking of the passion of the (coffee) bean. Out of frame the adjoining cafes were similarly well patronised at their footpath tables. Across … Continue reading →

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>*Remember me to Herald Square

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Victor

>(*‘Give My Regards to Broadway’ by George M Cohan) There is an interesting coincidence with the reference to Herald Square contained in the famous old tune celebrating New York’s theatre district, Broadway. Herald Square took it’s name from the New York Herald … Continue reading →

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>Meet me in the Laneway….

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Victor

>…sounds like an invitation to a fight which, being the coward I am…is something I would run a mile from. In fact it was the suggested lunch location in Cammeray yesterday. The venue was suggested by My for our lunch with Le. … Continue reading →

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