Streets of our town - the Sydney thread

Cycling around my area isn’t too bad I find. The M7 cycleway is about 5-6kms from my house, and then you have the Glenfield - Liverpool - Parramatta cycleway, which then connects to the Parramatta River cycleway up to Gladesville, or the Sydney Olympic Park Cycleway.

Other direction you’ve got Mt Annan Botanical Gardens (which has a mountain bike track).

My issue is I would probably cycle more if I had somebody to ride with. Kinda like a gym buddy, keep the motivation high.

I get really motivated for a few weeks, and then fall away.

Surely there’s some MAMIL club around you?

This sign has probably been here a while.

“Life. Be in it.” fitness campaign must have been early 80s?

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It’s older than that, rolled out nationally in 1978.

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Great now i have that song in my head

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Skate skate skate skate skate, skate skate

Was still around when I was in primary school in the mid-late 80s

We live in the greatest city in the world. It may be expensive, full of stuck up cunts, and we may complain about it endlessly, but days like today looking over the harbour from Taronga are just magical.



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100%. Have spent the last few days down here and it has been magical.



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Yep, I went to the James Squire Brewhouse yesterday afternoon for a few beers… and was commenting how fortunate we were to live in such a spectacular, iconic city

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We may have just about crossed paths!

I was sharing my table with a couple and we were commenting on how it didnt matter where you were sitting, you either had a view of the bridge, or a view of the Opera House.

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Had some country bumpkin friends in town last week and do all the city tourist things. So easy to take our city for granted sometimes.

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As Paul Keating said, “If you’re living in Australia and you’re not living in Sydney, you’re camping out,”

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Tents are a lot cheaper than a house in Sydney.

And you can usually put them where a 10km car trip doesn’t take 45mins.

You probably can’t afford a car if you’re living in a tent

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Fingers crossed for some good news on this front

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Gorgeous building that. Really needs to be a living one.

Well, there’s something for @rhysmcfc to do in Potts Point.

Fix the cinema!

Remember Old Sydney Town?

Well, took the kids to the Teddy Bears Picnic at the Australian Pioneers Village in Wilberforce today. Good day out, much fun had. The APV is like a miniaturised version of what OST used to be.

Old Sydney Town and Australia’s Wonderland were staples of my youth. I used to love both of those places. I remember school excursions to OST, shame both places are no more

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