Sydney, bit boring, had its day?
Mar 26th 2010 | 12:20 pm
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Re: Sydney, bit boring, had its day?
Here's some pictures of the aforementioned Lapstone Hotel, from their own website:
The Lapstone Hotel
Check out pictures 5 and 6. This is meant to be a pub, not a Holiday Inn!
S
The Lapstone Hotel
Check out pictures 5 and 6. This is meant to be a pub, not a Holiday Inn!
S
I don't understand this obsession some places have with chrome fittings and stainless steel. It just doesn't belong in pubs
Mar 29th 2010 | 12:52 am
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Re: Sydney, bit boring, had its day?
When i first came to Sydney it was all new and exciting, everyone was preparing for the olympics, new buildings going up everywhere, tunnels being dug linking the city together, the place had a real buzz about it.
I never really gave it much thought until recently when i came back from a trip to Melbourne -the first time i'd been back there in 12 yrs, and was blown away by how much it had changed. It seemed so much bigger and flasher than i had remembered with huge skyscrapers everywhere and i was really impressed by the whole pavement dining euro style culture, great shops and proper boozers.
Walking through Sydney today it just struck me as a bit old and tired, as if it had had its day 10 yrs ago and been left behind. If you took away the Harbour and beaches is there much else because IMO, as a city, its pretty crap! any thoughts?
I never really gave it much thought until recently when i came back from a trip to Melbourne -the first time i'd been back there in 12 yrs, and was blown away by how much it had changed. It seemed so much bigger and flasher than i had remembered with huge skyscrapers everywhere and i was really impressed by the whole pavement dining euro style culture, great shops and proper boozers.
Walking through Sydney today it just struck me as a bit old and tired, as if it had had its day 10 yrs ago and been left behind. If you took away the Harbour and beaches is there much else because IMO, as a city, its pretty crap! any thoughts?
What you’ve said is what people from other parts of Australia say about Sydney all the time.
I know a lot of people from overseas who have been underwhelmed by Sydney. I don’t think it’s the city’s fault as such, but rather that they talk big and are the brash and flashy representative of the country. So people expect more from them.
I’ve been visiting Sydney on a regular basis for decades, and I suppose that it really was a different place a decade ago as far as atmosphere goes. Not that long ago there was a report released that Sydney was the only Olympic city where tourism numbers dropped after hosting the Games.
Sydney has some great things going for it. What they don’t have are big attractions (all the national museums, galleries, memorials and parliament buildings are in Canberra) or the all-important big city vibe (something Melbourne has in spades) – Sydney’s CBD is pretty dead; you have to know where to go. There’s only so long you can look at a bridge!!
That said, I have a lot of family in Balmain, and every time I spend time there I go back to thinking Sydney can be pretty great.
