Wow this is the second last day of this Holliday
Walk into the sad little bathroom
Wash my sad body
Eat my sad little breakfast
Leave the little hotel room
Walk up passage to the little elevator
Greet the nice housekeeper
Go down in the elevator
Smile at the receptionist and walk out the door
Walk into the central station
Catch the train to martin place
Walk up the hill through the park
Walk Into the gallery
Walk around look at paintings and wait for relatives to turn up
I had managed to finish looking at the nineteenth century Australian art before they arrived
Very limited and unappetising range of food on menu. They have soup and bread I eat cake and coffee
We talk
We finish lunch and dawdle through the gallery’s small permanent collection
The collection was Patchy with some great highlights
I discovered two minor works by Pierre Bonnard
The sensual impressionist master
A wonderful self portrait and a nude
Then I spy Spencer Gore’s Icknield way 1912, mind blowing use of colour, the beauty of this painting leaves you breathless.
Then we walk through a gallery full of pleasant large paintings nationalism heroism and lots of drama.
We arrive back in the section full of Australian nineteenth and early twentieth century paintings that is now full of tourists. The impressive thing is that they seem very interested in what they are looking at and listening to but then again what the guide is saying to them maybe complete nonsense.
As we leave the gallery Peta Medcalf is palying the FLUTE next to the ticket office
We walk through the park and part agreeing to meet for dinner
Return to the hotel via the loop spending time photographing the crowds of people entering the station.
Return to hotel shower, shave and change clothes
Start walking to darling harbour
Walk past alley way where somebody has decorated an alley way with brilliantly coloured blue street art
to hot I will arrive smelling horrible if I continue walk, I decide to catch the mono rail.
I Have buffet meal at hotel the food is ok the company ok
Leave hotel to discover the monorail is closed
I follow the tracks back to the china town and then walk to my hotel
Play with lap top until 12:30
Make phone call and head off to bed.
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