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Sidney, built around one of the world’s most beautiful and accessible harbours, full of good restaurants and designer and tourist hotels and its a modern and cosmopolitan city.

Sidney Harbour Bridge

Sidney Harbour Bridge is one of those postcard views everywhere. It’s curving steel frame arches across the water, these days dottedwith the tinny figures of hundreds of people, each day, who pay good money for a guided climb over the top span of the bridge. Giddy stuff and very popular.

As we motor out from beneath the bridge, the Opera House and its giant shell-like roof lines come into view, standing to the seaward end of Circular Quay. The Opera House is now a key focal point of the city.

Sidney Opera House

The scale of of its architecture and construction show an enormous vision on the part of the city fathers who must have agonised over the approval of such a grandiose scheme some 50 years ago.