64 Chinatown

 Chinatown in Sydney -  personally if I entertained any fascination  for the Chinatown visited over 20 years ago here in Sydney that fascination has now been dispelled.  Forever.   We discovered a dreary sameness except for the obvious expansion of small businesses everywhere.  Many shops were closed this Tuesday morning at 10.15. Where was the colour, the hum, the buzz, the people or the smell of yum cha?

 A Celebration of Contemporary Asian Australian Art is the exhibition at the Town Hall was missed because  doors opened  to the public only at noon.   It had looked interesting and enticing …too bad.  The Year of the Horse started less than lucky for us.

Artwork on the street in the shape of rhinos attracted us, two of them  well worth the space they occupied. These Rhinos are all over the city in public spaces.  We wandered around here and there,  a little lost seeking  Chinese red and gold or banners and dragons.  Perhaps visitors and tourists should visit only much later or at night.

Somehow and fortunately  we wound up with a good strong walk from Chinatown to the ever attractive QVB where we had coffee at the excellent Old Vienna Coffee House…………