cecilia-lenagh

Just spent a couple of days in Sydney with my daughter Niamh - a combined Christmas gift from Niamh and Jim: lovely Martha Wainwright concert at the Opera House, followed by fascinating exhibition of Chinese terracotta warriors and grave goods from the excavations. My thanks to Niamh and Jim; it was a great mini-break.

Niamh and I stayed at the Rendezvous Stafford hotel in The Rocks. An ideal location for the Opera House and shopping, and the staff were very friendly and helpful. We booked a little apartment, like a minute townhouse - very cute and just right for us. Plenty to see, do and eat in The Rocks area, of course. Visited a night market and a day market: when it comes to markets, one is spoiled for choice. The area reminded me in subliminal ways of parts of London - it's now gentrified and a tourist attraction, but one could imagine it as a warren of old insanitary slum housing not so very long ago.

http://rendezvousstafford-sydney.h-rez.com/index.htm?lbl=ggl-en