Total Miles Traveled: 61,992
The Sydney Opera House. The quintessential symbol of Sydney and one of the postcard shots people take home from Australia. The unique architecture makes it a fun photography subject, though in person, I’ll have to admit it isn’t as impressive as it is in photos.
A couple photos of the opera house:
The rising moon was just in the right spot:
Lots of geometric patterns to take photos against:
After taking a quick look at the Opera House, we wandered up to the Rocks area which had a street fair going on and tons of people enjoying the sun outside.
Lots of aboriginal street performers…
Oddly enough, the most interesting and memorable thing we saw in our short time in Sydney was this building. It’s a restaurant/bar COMPLETELY built out of recycled materials – with the kitchen, bathrooms, and rooftop bar built in to the cargo containers you see below.
Inside, the decor is pretty spartan All the glasses are made out of wine bottles cut in half. The forks and knives look like they are cut out of the wood tongue depressors doctors use.
Upstairs, above the restaurant, is a rooftop bar with planters that grow all the herbs they use in the restaurant.
And the kicker was the toilet. Yes, the toilet. When you flush, the faucet turns on for you to wash your hands as it refills the tank. And the door to the bathroom? It’s made out of one of those long plastic folding tables. Brilliant.
Sydney was a nice city, unique in its own way but not unlike many other cities we had been to. Some might vehemently disagree with us, but maybe it’s because we’re not really city people. But, what’s cool about cities is all the creativity and interesting stuff you can find when you really look for it. This restaurant was a good reminder of that – to go in to a city or place looking not just at the big, obvious tourist highlights, but looking in the cracks, exploring, talking to and paying closer attention to the locals.
Have a look at all of our photos here:
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