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Wednesday, November 10
Went to the Sydney Open Day organised by the Historic Houses Trust last Sunday Nov 7. Did lots of walking. Great day. Started at World Tower. Louise Cox happened to be stationed at the lifts. Absolutely fantastic views! The place that was open for viewing is a place that you can rent for a short stay - like a hotel. There are also apartments available to buy. You can get a studio (no parking) from $365K which is approx 50 sqm. A 1 bdrm from $403K, 65sqm etc up to over $1m.
Also saw the new refurbished Mint on Macquarie St. It's a very beautiful space. They've stripped back a lot of the building to expose it in it's original state. Apparently there have been so many layers of history that you could keep stripping it back and restoring it back to a former period.
Saw the new Utzon room in the Sydney Opera House.
Went to Harry Seidler's building - Australia Square and had access to the L6 - the ninemsn offices. Very open plan offices. All the workstations seem to have heaps of toys displayed on the monitors, on the desks etc. Just did a quick walk around.
Saw the Wintergarden area of the Minter Ellison - law offices in Aurora Place.
Will post some up when I get a chance.
Saw a few other places as well. Was pretty hungry by 5pm. So got some sushi train plates at the George St cinemas - which is always packed and has yummy dishes, then went back to the car and then went to Eastwood for a Chinese dinner with family.
Walked by Liverpool St and saw the Spanish Festival was on in full swing. Lots of Spanish restaurants had food stalls in the street. There was also flamenco dancing, live bands, and all sorts of entertainment happening. Very lively.
Got a few DVDs out over the last week or so including: About a Boy - funny, great feel good movie, great place Hugh's character's got, Bulletproof Monk - fun action movie - v.cliched, caricatured plotline and characters for the 'baddies' and some imitation Matrix movies but still fun, All I want - has Elijah Wood, Franke Ponte and Mandy Moore in it, ok, fun movie, American Splendour - great, great movie! really loved it!
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