Let's go bowling

It's the middle of the summer school holidays here, and yesterday we went bowling at AMF Bowling Belconnen. Lots of fun!

DJ639 to Sydney

Just a short walk out to the plane ...

Gates 10 & 11, Canberra Airport

Scaled down

I haven't had much opportunity to take photos recently, so I had a look back through some old ones, and found this miniature Stonehenge, taken at Cockington Green, Nicholls, in March 2006.

Fish'n'chips, anyone?

Florey Takeaway. There are plenty of these shops, specialising in hamburgers and hot chips, scattered throughout Canberra's suburbs, but not all of them can boast such bright tilework!

Florey shops

Part of the Florey shops, with the fairly typical verandah-style frontage and central car parking area.

Neon

One last image from Sydney. This is the 'view' from our hotel room at night - just across the road from Westfield Miranda (thank goodness for blockout curtains!).

With nearly 400 shops, this centre is the largest in the southern part of Sydney, and in 2010 turned over $723.6 million. There are approximately 13.4 million visits to this shopping centre each year - with 7 day trading, that's over 37,000 people a day through the doors. No wonder it seemed really crowded!

City view

It's a fair distance from Miranda to the centre of Sydney, but if you leant out from our motel balcony you could see the unmistakeable shape of Centrepoint Tower (which I believe is now Westfield Tower or something similar - Westfield seems to be taking over the world!).

Hello cocky!

We've had a few days in Sydney this week, visiting family. Not many photos, as we seemed to spend most of the time talking, eating, and wandering around shops, although I have a few shots to share over the next days.

We stayed in a motel in the suburb of Miranda, in the southern part of Sydney. This cockatoo greeted us on the balcony of our room each morning, shuffling along and apparently waiting to see if we'd offer food. Just as well we didn't - the receptionist told us as we were checking out that if you feed them, the cockatoos will happily invite themselves into the room, and those claws and beak at close quarters in a motel room are probably not a good idea!

Photo of the Year 2011

Each year, on January 1, many City Daily Photo bloggers post their best photo of the preceding year. This is my choice:

This photo was originally posted on 8 June 2011, and features the ACT Memorial in Civic.

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