in peak summer).Our plan was to just spend an evening in the Hyde Park. We got down at Town Hall and slowly were walking to the Hyde Park. At the first junction, the traffic was blocked to turn right, and the road was crowded. A Spanish Summer festival going on !
We crossed the road and joined the crowd. It was like a local festival! All stalls for food, obviously stalls for bangles, earrings and so on. Two artificially-long-legged dancers walking in between the crowd, we kept walking to the end of the crowd, which was a stage. I could see people crowded even from the nearby old buildings to get a good view of what is happening.
There was one man on the stage with a couple. The man was giving clear instructions to the crowd and the couple was showing it, and they were learning Spanish dance. We stood there for sometime, and walked to the main stage at the next cut road.
The only intolerable thing was the smell of hot dogs everywhere, so we couldn’t stand there much. Slowly walked to the Hyde Park getting out the crowd. A pleasant evening at the Hyde Park surrounded by War memorial on one side, a beautiful fountain on the opposite end, and the St.Mary’s Cathedral on one of its sides. We just had a relaxed walk through the Hyde Park. Krithi was upset with some scene happening on the sides – a couple of young ‘same-sex’-couples (of both sex) enjoying the summer and each other J. Some guys trying to stand in a single wheel with their bikes and some taking photos , it was a pleasant evening.
We crossed the road to St.Mary’s Cathedral. Sunday evening service was going on inside. Krithi was very keen on looking inside a church. We were hesitating at first, but then saw a couple of tourists going in, we followed them. It was not a worry even to take a picture without a flash as I couldn’t find any notice saying no photos (I have seen people taking video in the temple here, so I think it is not an issue here).
Walked around the premises and started walking back to the Town Hall station by around 7:15. Got in to a ‘Hungry Jacks’( it is a fast food chain like McD, but I would say these people top here and what I see in McD is not the same class which I saw in London, or not even South Africa) fo
r veggie burger, some chips and a milk shake. Back in Town Hall station around 8, the sky was just getting dark. Just took a train back home finishing one of those very peaceful, or rather lazy weekends here.I hate to bore you if I have nothing new or eventful to write from my side. But the World is wonderful, and each day is so different.
As Australia is getting ready to celebrate Christmas, Sydney planning for a 4 million dollar New Year celebration at the Harbour Bridge, I am hoping to find something new for the next week…bye for now…
