Marc picked us up at the hotel on Sunday morning and took us on an all day 'hop-on, hop-off' tour of Sydney. We went through the Rocks, and up to Bondi Beach area and then on to the Olympic village of the 1990 Olympics. The Olympic flame has been converted to a water feature in the park, and the ground is inlaid with tiles representing all the gold, silver and bronze olympians. We found Daniel Igali's as well as Simon William's tiles and the fact that Marion Jones two tiles have been removed as her victories were found to be performance drug assisted.
After touring, we returned to Marc and Barbara's beautiful home in Pennant Hills and met Barb's brother, Ian and his wife Ros. After drinks, we had a great BBQ'd leg of lamb dinner and then dinner table discussions with the four on a range of topics. We never seemed to run out of things to talk about.
This morning, we had breakfast and Barb prepared a picnic lunch and we ventured north to the Hunter Valley Wine region for some samplings. We stopped at a quaint little hamlet, Wollumbi for lunch. The region is noted for Semillon and Shiraz grapes, but had a couple of nice Pinot Noirs which we purchased.
We returned to Sydney for dinner at M&B's lawn bowls club and then they drove us back to the condo downtown.
They are great hosts, and great ambassadors to Sydney (even though they are Kiwis) and we owe them a lot for their hospitality.
We have the next three days on our own downtown and a tour Wednesday to the Blue Mountain region West of town.
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