Blog 12 Tuesday 16th October More of Sydney

Forgot to mention that we also found the Victoria Building yesterday on the way to the Rocks. It is an older building, beautifully renovated to make a modern and very up-market shopping centre inside. Up-market until you get to the top when they have managed to perpertrate a singeing naffery with the clock tower. On the hour 4 trumpeters come out of each 'plastic' turret and after that you get the history of Britain from Canute to Charles I with little moving figurines. My favourite is Henry VIII enjoying the company of all six wives at once. I imagine the head chopping of Charley is the favourite of many others. If this becomes tiring you can go and see Queen Victoria in full coronation regalia, surrounded by her replica crown jewels.

Hey ho. On to Tuesday:

30 degrees but comfortable with a strong wind to cool it down. We sheltered in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, full of goodies and again some fantastic Aboriginal work.
Lunch there on the terrace filling ourselves with salads full of goodies and then onwards to the Coffee Cruise of Captain Cook's Tour of the Harbour. Beautifully done, and I was staggered by the size of the bays and the quantity of million dollar pads I shan't be owning sometime soon. We experienced the strange sensation of the 9 degree drop in temperature in 3 mns reported on TV and today is cooler (19 degrees).

Delicious kangaroo steak for dinner in Darling Harbour and returned to find The Bill on TV to get us back to earth.