Susannah Place Museum, Sydney
Susannah Place Museum, The Rocks, Sydney
Late last year we travelled to Sydney with our daughter. One of the places she was really keen to visit was the Susannah Place Museum in The Rocks district of inner Sydney. I was a little dubious at first but after going on the guided tour of this old historic shop and terraced houses I had radically changed my mind.
Susannah Place Museum, The Rocks, Sydney
The tour of this museum illustrates so graphically how people lived in this area in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Some of the houses are furnished as they would have been in that era. Other houses have a more modern feel with furnishings from the early twentieth century.
Susannah Place Museum, The Rocks, Sydney
The Corso, Manly Beach, Sydney
The Corso, Manly Beach, Sydney
The Corso at Manly Beach in Sydney is the main thoroughfare through this beautiful suburb. It leads from the ferry wharves to the beach. Most of this street has no vehicular traffic making it a broad pedestrian precinct for shoppers and visitors.
Solar powered Christmas Tree, The Corso, Manly Beach
Our visit to Manly Beach was a few days after Christmas in December 2008. The Corso featured a large Christmas Tree whose lights were powered by a solar panel.
The Corso, Manly Beach, Sydney
The Corso, Manly Beach, Sydney
Children playing on The Corso, Manly Beach
On our recent holiday in Sydney we took the ferry to Manly Beach. The ferry ride on the beautiful Sydney Harbour is highly recommended as one of the delights of visiting Sydney.
Children playing in water on The Corso, Manly Beach
While we were at Manly we were amused at the antics of the children playing on The Corso, the main street leading from the ferry wharves to the beach. A series of fountains had been installed in the footpath. Every half minute or so they would gently raise the water up about a half metre and then die down again. This was repeated over and over. It was an excellent way for the children (and any adults) to cool off, or to wash off the saltiness and sand from the beach.
It looked like fun. Kind of made one wish one was a child again. Actually, there is nothing and no-one stopping any adults who wanted to have just as much fun as the children.
Manly Beach, Sydney