Home after spending a few days in the old hometown of Sydney catching up with the daughters. Our girlie weekends tend to consist of champagne breakfasts, too much good chocolate, dumplings, laughs, and a trip to the theatre.
And lots of walking. 27,000 plus steps on Saturday alone. ( Thank God for old pubs with harbour views and cold ciders).
The Sydney Writers Walk is a series of 60 circular metal plaques embedded in the footpath between Overseas Passenger Terminal on West Circular Quay and the Sydney Opera House forecourt on East Circular Quay.
The plaques were installed to honour and celebrate the lives and works of well-known Australian writers, as well as notable overseas authors, such as D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad and Mark Twain, who lived in or visited Australia. Quotes from a significant work and some biographical information about the writer are stamped onto each plaque,along with an excerpt of the author’s writing.
It’s a perfect walk along the harbour with an ice cream in your hand. Boysenberry.
I was born, schooled, worked, married and had my two babies in Sydney and have been returning on a yearly basis forever. Stupidly, I introduced the daughters to theatre at an early age. And champagne breakfasts.
The old homestead was demolished nearly thirty years ago and replaced by a McMansion so I’ve never had the heart to revisit.
Interestingly, the apartment where we stayed in the city was two doors down from my office from 1980 where a client picked up a chair and threw it at me. But that’s another story…….
She’s a whole different city since those days.
Brizzy Mays Books and Bruschetta 
I was in high school in 1980. Rough crowd, somewhat but it was only kindergarten that one was stuck in being the slates of the chair.
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I want to hear about the chair throwing story.
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So going to do that walk one day!
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It’s fascinating but difficult to navigate with all the tourist traffic 🙂
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