Macedonian restaurants and Afghan interiors...
...and African artwork....and...
No, it's not New York ( never been there, though from my brother's stories I reckoned it's got to be the one place where such a wonderful mix of cultures exists), but....Newtown, a suburb of Sydney.
A "Wild West meets East End" type of place, Newtown was a great surprise, the highlight of my aussie trip last week, though I only spent about 45 minutes walking around (Sid, I still hold you personally responsible for not taking me there earlier)...It was enough though to witness an abundance of cultural and artistic forms of existence: theatres, dance studios, street painters, conservatory, ethnic art shops, music studios and stores, funky combinations of architectural styles....
Forget Darling Harbour; forget Circular Quay, the Rocks, King Cross....if I get to go to Sydney again, Newtown's definitely my home base...
You should check it out.
No, it's not New York ( never been there, though from my brother's stories I reckoned it's got to be the one place where such a wonderful mix of cultures exists), but....Newtown, a suburb of Sydney.
A "Wild West meets East End" type of place, Newtown was a great surprise, the highlight of my aussie trip last week, though I only spent about 45 minutes walking around (Sid, I still hold you personally responsible for not taking me there earlier)...It was enough though to witness an abundance of cultural and artistic forms of existence: theatres, dance studios, street painters, conservatory, ethnic art shops, music studios and stores, funky combinations of architectural styles....
Forget Darling Harbour; forget Circular Quay, the Rocks, King Cross....if I get to go to Sydney again, Newtown's definitely my home base...
You should check it out.
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