A day in the city

Yesterday I had a wonderful day in the CBD, looking at some of Sydney's beautiful buildings and visiting the Museum of Sydney to see a photographic exhibition by a woman who visited 52 suburbs over a year, spending a week in each.  (Much the same as I'm doing, but I'm only spending a few hours and do not plan to hold an exhibition!)  Here's the museum:

It's a beautiful blend of sandstone, glass and steel, tucked into a corner on the site of the first Government House.  I bought Australian books for my great-niece and nephew in London from the museum shop.  I was fascinated to learn how Jorn Utzen designed the Opera House sails - I hope you can see how he's divided and cut out parts of a sphere-like shape (on the wall plaque above the model):

Here's another building (c 1913) in the same street.  I wandered round this area, a stone's throw from Circular Quay with the bridge on one side and the Opera House on the other, for hours.