Sometimes its great to do touristy things in your own city – the stuff you don’t normally do. Stay in a hotel at the harbourside, have a ‘rear window’ experience. You are anonymous – try a fake accent!
threads of light
coloured baubles
looking out of windows into other windows
inside, blurred shadows, half-glimpsed
A leanfaced young man with steel eyes and a thin highbridged nose sat back in a swivel chair with his feet on the new mahongany-finish desk. His skin was sallow, his lips gently pouting. He wriggled in the little chair watching the little scratches his shoes were making on the veneer. Damn it I don’t care. Then he sat up suddenly making the swivel shriek and banged on his knee with his clenched fist. ‘Results,’ he shouted. (John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer)
the window perspires raindrops
the coat hanger and the insect
What a great thing to do. Lovely photos too. Were you in North Sydney? It is a great spot.
We did something similar for my recent birthday – after doing the hop on hop off bus tour in Dublin, Belfast and Galway; we came home and did it in Hobart. It was interesting to see the things they thought should be included.
We were at Circular Quay. Such a beautiful spot – so near and yet so far.