A Day in the City. 3/1/2011

Today we took the train into the city. 

First stop was to visit the Hyde Park Barracks Museum – Convict Sydney.  This is where all the British convicts were sent between 1819 and 1848. 

We tried out the convict hammock and I even looked up to see if any Cowards had been sent over, there was just one! It was very interesting, I love to see all the personal belongings that have been found from that epoca.

After it was a walk to the Sydney Opera House, we had only seen it from the ferry up until today. 

 

Then it was onto The Rocks where they say Sydney began, now a famous shopping area.  We were very lucky as today was a holiday here and the week-end market was open.  We bought some warm macadamia nuts, plain, chilly and honey coated yummy!!!!

We found a lovely bar where they were cooking extra long sausages on a BBQ served up in a long French roll with caramelised onions and cheese, now that’s what I call a hotdog! You will all have gathered by now that we are not going hungry!!!!!!!



We had hoped to do the walk over the harbour bridge but it started rain so we made our way home.  We will try do that when we return from New Zealand.