One our the main challenges is, of course, remembering to look RIGHT first when crossing a street! We've been navigating the streets and buses of Sydney now for three days, and Kate seems to be most comfortable with this essential survival skill.
Yesterday, we had a full day of walking, first along the ocean cliffs on the east end of Sydney's suburbs near Bondi beach:
Our new friend, Pamela, drove us out to the start of the walk. Pamela, a good friend of our good Baltimore friend Gail, is a retired school teacher and educational consultant who specialized in schools that worked with disadvantaged kids. She's been a wonderful neighbor … her condo is about a two minute walk from our apartment in the Potts Point neighborhood.
Then, last night, we had a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, scaling the 450-foot Sydney Harbour Bridge. The night views were fantastic. The bridge was built in the mid-1930s, immediately cutting passengers on the various private ferries by like 90%. It's an engineering wonder, a single steel arch held together by 4 million rivets. You can see the bridge in the photo below(from a ferry ride we took on Thursday), on the right; the downtown skyline is on the left and, if you squint, you can see the Opera House in the middle. We'll post a photo from our climb soon.
Yesterday, we had a full day of walking, first along the ocean cliffs on the east end of Sydney's suburbs near Bondi beach:
Our new friend, Pamela, drove us out to the start of the walk. Pamela, a good friend of our good Baltimore friend Gail, is a retired school teacher and educational consultant who specialized in schools that worked with disadvantaged kids. She's been a wonderful neighbor … her condo is about a two minute walk from our apartment in the Potts Point neighborhood.
Then, last night, we had a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, scaling the 450-foot Sydney Harbour Bridge. The night views were fantastic. The bridge was built in the mid-1930s, immediately cutting passengers on the various private ferries by like 90%. It's an engineering wonder, a single steel arch held together by 4 million rivets. You can see the bridge in the photo below(from a ferry ride we took on Thursday), on the right; the downtown skyline is on the left and, if you squint, you can see the Opera House in the middle. We'll post a photo from our climb soon.
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