Nice Things Around Sydney

I am now an octogenarian, which means I am of Advanced Middle Age. Over the years, Christine and I have hit something over fifty other countries, but we keep coming back to Oz. which is Australia to us.

Based on the best overseas experiences, and what I know of Australia, this is a menu for visitors from interstate and overseas, but it is not suitable for Trumpies. It is, however, suitable for civilised Australians and foreigners who can extract gentle joy from a view or a sighting.

Here, you will meet the quiet bits, the placid places, the bits where there is not somebody keen to take a profit from you. These are the places that are different, amusing, and off the tourist track. These are not the glitzy places that allow boastful posts about how much you spent.


The city of Sydney, seen from the north. No, you work out where!

The Nice Things Around Sydney idea first took arose in the early 1990s, when I sought to teach teachers how to assemble Web pages. In those days. HTML was done in a text editor. Sadly, "ozemail" my web host for many years banjaxed the whole thing without warning, some two years back. No great loss, it was well out of date by then, anyhow.

This is more about quiet walks and pleasant places, involving public transport when possible, but there are some places for which you will need some sort of transport. Because I am a botanist and zoologist by training, and a geologist and historian by work experience. you will get lots of that.

My aim is to have lots of internal links that will lead you around from place to place, but I used to be an anarchist/surrealist bureaucrat, so stand by to be unsettled. It won't be deliberate, but things will just emerge...

There are also a few links to books I have written, but you don't need to read them.

Use the search function, Luke! But here are a few starters, for those who prefer to follow links. Note that this is a work in progress, started in February 2025, and this is just a random sample.



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