Yet More ......
The previous photos show a bit of Melbourne University (old building), Skippy looking for biscuits (if you look at his claws you'll realise why we shut the window - they can be dangerous), The Snowy Mountains from Thredbo, the harbour bridge and another view of the Blue Mountains (taken from the first of the 'Three Sisters').
The above photos show the university campus again, one of the beaches at Woolongong, the Three Sisters in the Blue Mntns (if you look closely you can see a foot bridge going to the first one), Canberra from the telecommunications tower restaurant, the painting I bought at the Rocks weekend Market in Sydney yesterday (the artist is posing for the photo). I always was a science fiction nerd. I also bought a 'red back' (spider) paper weight to remind me how lucky we are not to have poisonous spiders in Europe. The spider is real - from a spider farm (bred for the venom) apparently but is now entombed in plastic and quite safe.
Today (morning) I did indeed jog for all of two two hours in bright sunshine from Potts Point area (where I am staying) all the way round the waterside and past the opera house, under the bridge and into town, returning to the bridge and the Rocks area and back the way I had come. I later joined Ilona in Bondi (at the beach swimming club house) for a coffee and then had dinner (tuna steak) with her in a pub in Kings Cross (also quite close to my motel). She is now off socialising with people her own age. I am in a cyber cafe full of other nerds with a cable connection to my laptop sending this. Next door is a massage parlour or something of that ilk with men at the door inviting one to enter with promises of enjoyment - Kings Cross is similar to Soho (as it once was anyway) and to various areas of Hamburg, Amsterdam, Kowloon etc which I have passed through in the distant past. There is also a street signpost advising that kerb crawlers shall be captured on video and prosecuted, so it no doubt bears resemblance also to parts of Glasgow, Edinburgh (not to mention its namesake in London) et al.
Next post shall be from sunny Byron Bay, where the temperature is now 23 Celcius.
posted by Fred 65 @ 3:25 AM
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