{"id":1301,"date":"2008-09-19T22:48:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T12:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2008-09-19T22:51:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T12:51:04","slug":"travel-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"Travel – Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Sydney to do some music recording, we took the opportunity to take in Berkelouw Books and Ariel Books on Oxford St and came back to the hotel with quite a haul!<\/p>\n

On the way to Oxford Street, we passed St Vincent’s Hospital, and right opposite found a memorial drinking fountain dedicated to the memory of one of Australia’s greatest heart surgeons, Dr Victor Chang.<\/p>\n

\"Chang<\/p>\n

Berkelouw’s has a cafe upstairs serving delightful apple and rhubarb slice and berry cheesecake – we washed these down with two large flat white coffees. Internet connection was a bit flaky so I waited until we got back to the hotel<\/p>\n

\"Berkelouw<\/p>\n

I found an early Thomas Sebeok book on semiotics, called ‘A sign is just a sign’ – it looks great – I’ve been reading a bit about semiotics lately – the study of how we make meaning with signs.<\/p>\n

Ariel’s yielded Alain de Botton’s ‘Essays in Love’ – which we had been hunting for some time – we have all his others.<\/p>\n

As we crossed the road from Ariel’s I spotted a pile of steam rising in front of an illuminated sign on a building on Oxford Street and couldn’t resist a moody photo<\/p>\n

\"Oxford<\/p>\n

And on to an art store – Canberra’s main art stores have been taken over by Eckersly’s and the range has narrowed markedly – and they cater more for scrapbooking than fine arts it seems. But the art store on Oxford Street has a huge range of items for artists – I found some orange shellac for varnish, and Sharon some sketch books and a few other things.<\/p>\n

Then it was on to a Nepalese restaurant for dinner – it looked quite genuine cuisine, with goat (with or without bones and skin!) on the menu – we settled for a lamb and a chicken curry, with rice and naan bread – delicious!<\/p>\n

Weighed down with books we stopped at a 7\/11 for some milk and then caught a cab back to the hotel – The Mariner’s Court on McElhone St in Woolloomooloo – great value, comfortable clean rooms recently refurbished.<\/p>\n

\"Mariner's<\/p>\n

And so to blog with a backdrop of fireworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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