Maxx picked up the 6 'Historical Walking Tour' brochures from Surry Hills library last week. Published by The City of Sydney, they're titled - Passion, Preservation, Colony, Parade, Hidden and Community.
It's Tuesday early evening and Maxx is walking "Passion - Sydney's Wildside."
I started at 'the Cross' - named after the intersection of many streets including William and Victoria Streets, and Darlinghurst, Bayswater and Kings Cross Roads. This area known as Kings Cross was up until 1905 called 'Queens Cross'.
Needing tucker and walking down Darlignhurst road I passed the entrance to Kings Cross train station, noticed a small take-away dumpling shop, so did a u-turn. I ordered some dim-sims and steamed dumplings. The shop lady asked in broken english, "you want it take away?" The shop was about 2.5 metres wide x 1.5 deep, she was the only one working there and it faced the busy pedestrian tunnel to the station - no tables, chairs, stools in sight. I let my intrigue slide this time, next time though I'll definitely reply "dine in please." Maybe there was a banquet hall behind the dimsim steamer I failed to notice.
Highlight was the supurb lookout over Sydney Harbour towards the heads from Arthur McElhone Reserve, opposite Elizabeth Bay House. Close by is 'Boomerang' residence. The land that 'Boomerang' now sits on was bought in 1928 for $28,000 (equivalent of pound value then used) and last purchased by Lindsay Fox in 2005 for $21million. I don't know what's more impressive, that or Tom Cruise pre-Oprah-couch-jumping and the Mission Impossible 2 crew filming there in the late 90's.
There seem to be alot of runners wearing drinking-water camel-packs around the Wooloomooloo, Potts Point area. Perhaps the air is dryer and stripped of nutrients here because of all drugs, sex and other stuff this area is famous for. Perhaps, or more likely they're standard issue for all the sailors from Navy venturing from their Garden Island base. Next time when several camel-packed joggers pass I'll salute with a "hello sailor" and guage the reaction.
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