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A Busy Holiday in Sydney
Jun. 4th, 2019 10:07 pmThe past few days in Sydney has been pretty packed series of events. Friday's events included a visit to the rather fun Sydney Aquarium and the inner-city Australian Wildlife zoo; highlights of the former include the dugong and penguins and for the latter, meeting a quokka and patting a python. A highlight of the following day was meeting a homeless man Chris and his pet rat Lucy, who acquired some fame some weeks back when his rat was stolen and recovered. If you're in Sydney go down Pitt Street and spend some money to be in their company. Afterwards, we went to Manly to meander around the parkland of the former quarantine station where we met several bush turkeys and an echidna.
That night was the Underworld concert at the Sydney Opera House, our second in three days. It was, to say the least, an incredibly high-tempo evening, and they really didn't have any need for seating - at any point in time well over 95% of the audience was on their feet dancing as the Underworld duo provided a truly incredible show of light and music. What really made the night, however, was the enthusiasm of the crowd, which does beg the question of whether Underworld was at a concert to see their punters, rather than the other way around. Quite seriously, the second-best concert I have been to (Hawkwind retains top spot).
The day after the concert had a long five-hour lunch, drinks, and catch-up with few Sydney-siders whom I know, including John A., of the Pirate Party, Adam B., and Alex. We had a wide-ranging chats from the state of contemporary and international politics, the role of corruption, visits to abandoned locations, and even astrophysics. Appropriately the following day visited record and book stores in the city and Newtown, where we went to Gould's, which I hadn't been to for some years. That evening went down to the Darling Harbour to witness more of Vivid, specifically the Robot Space Land.
Today, however, I've come down with a cold. I'm dosed up on medicines and have pretty much avoided doing anything in the vague hope of recovery as soon as possible. In the morning we went out to a local cinema to watch Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion which involves the quest of the druid Getafix to find a successor after an accident. It was a pretty good kid's film with plenty of screen-time for all the favourite characters with their well-known behaviours, and introducing the pathetic Senator Tomcrus. The cinema itself had a grand total of four people present, which despite its success in France makes me wonder about the future of the franchise.
That night was the Underworld concert at the Sydney Opera House, our second in three days. It was, to say the least, an incredibly high-tempo evening, and they really didn't have any need for seating - at any point in time well over 95% of the audience was on their feet dancing as the Underworld duo provided a truly incredible show of light and music. What really made the night, however, was the enthusiasm of the crowd, which does beg the question of whether Underworld was at a concert to see their punters, rather than the other way around. Quite seriously, the second-best concert I have been to (Hawkwind retains top spot).
The day after the concert had a long five-hour lunch, drinks, and catch-up with few Sydney-siders whom I know, including John A., of the Pirate Party, Adam B., and Alex. We had a wide-ranging chats from the state of contemporary and international politics, the role of corruption, visits to abandoned locations, and even astrophysics. Appropriately the following day visited record and book stores in the city and Newtown, where we went to Gould's, which I hadn't been to for some years. That evening went down to the Darling Harbour to witness more of Vivid, specifically the Robot Space Land.
Today, however, I've come down with a cold. I'm dosed up on medicines and have pretty much avoided doing anything in the vague hope of recovery as soon as possible. In the morning we went out to a local cinema to watch Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion which involves the quest of the druid Getafix to find a successor after an accident. It was a pretty good kid's film with plenty of screen-time for all the favourite characters with their well-known behaviours, and introducing the pathetic Senator Tomcrus. The cinema itself had a grand total of four people present, which despite its success in France makes me wonder about the future of the franchise.
