Monthly Archives: February 2025

Recalled to life

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With our brief walk through The Rocks complete, Road Scholar had nothing more planned for us on this, our first full day in Sydney. This seemed an odd choice to me at the time. Most of the group had arrived …

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every one of those darkly clustered houses

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Any 21st century visitor to the Sydney suburb called The Rocks would likely find its name a bit puzzling because there are few rocks apparent as you can see in this aerial view provided by Airview to The Dictionary of …

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a beautiful city and a brilliant people

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To connect north with south (Building bridges for the living) Now that we’ve experienced the creation of Sydney Harbour we can look at the construction of the Harbour Bridge. Although the notion of a harbor crossing arose as early as …

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A dream, all a dream

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(To find your dreams have washed away) Following M’s lecture, the group boarded our bus with Whisperers in place and set off for a walk across the Harbour Bridge – a walk not to be confused with the Bridge Climb …

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until the stream absorbed it

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The First Fleet (How did we end up here?) Our morning began with a lecture focusing on the history of the settlement of Sydney but included some information that was an overview of Australian history from the arrival of the …

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