We set out and stop to have lunch at the Queen Victoria Building (QVB), and older, historic shopping arcade that is home to fancy shops and nice restautants. We stop at one that has a nice display of salads and we each order the tuna salad with beans. We walk around the arcade and admire the giant clocks. We walk north along George Street and then we spot the Sydney Tower. We make the spontaneous decision to ride to the top of the tower! There is a 4D movie to watch before they let us up that is actually pretty entertaining! At the top, the views are perfect thanks to today's perfect weather. Here is a picture that I took:
After this, we continue north towards the main harbor, known as Circular Quay. We walk along the quay and head to the view of the opera house from the Park Hyatt hotel -- gorgeous! Heading towardss the Botanic Gardens, we don't quite make it there. We stop at a waterside bar called Buckley's for refreshing beer or two, or three, maybe four. We're in vacation mode for sure! Soon enough it is time for dinner, so we head back the area called The Rocks to dine at a restaurant called Sailor's Thai. For staters we have some steamed dumplings that are blue for some reason and tod mun (fish cakes) with quail eggs in the center. For mains, we enjoy barramundi, spicy greens, and outstanding chicken in a red curry sauce. The food tonight is even better than we remembered it from 2006. Our wine today is a New Zealand pinot gris from Te Whare Ra (a winery in Marlborough that Rob and I have visited).
Walking home, we pass a restaurant in an alley that has a selection of hanging cages that I am compelled to photograph:
Well, we didn't do a tremendous amount of sightseeing today, but we sure had fun!
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