Weekending - in Sydney

I hadn't been to Sydney in 25 years. It's the other really big city, and I tend to go to smaller places. So when Kris suggested a weekend in Sydney I enthusiastically said YES. Leon, Kris, Katie and I headed up on Thursday after work (which means different things for all of us, so we were flying at different times). Friday was a public holiday in Melbourne, but not in Sydney and we went on a craft brewery crawl.

Friday night Trevor, one of our favourite cabaret performers was doing a piano bar in the Rocks, so we went to that.

Saturday we started with a trip to Skein Sisters, a yarn shop which I have bought from on-line. It was such a cute shop, and I bought the final skein for this year's Westknits MKAL, as well as a bunch of accessories.

Then we went to more breweries, including meeting up with some of Katie's friends.

On Sunday we were a bit touristy and took a ferry through the harbour to lunch, and a walk above the ocean. Delightful.

We ate good food all weekend, drank lots, didn't get hangovers and laughed a lot. Katie's snips got confiscated at the airport on the way there, and Kris' on the way back, and all our flight were delayed, and that was the only things about the weekend that weren't perfect. And this photo. While we were taking this photo a stranger walked past and asked if they could take it for us, to which Katie replied "I don't think that will help".

Will it take me another 25 years to go back to Sydney? Quite possibly, but if someone suggests a trip next year, I'm in for that too.

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