On Wednesday, the first order of the day was to get something to eat for breakfast, or brekkie as Australians often call it. We really liked the Asian-style pastries at Breadtop and decided to try a similar place nearby called Barby's. We walked to a nearby park to sit and eat. It was kind of cool in the morning, but our blueberry pastry was really good.

After that, we wanted to go to the Powerhouse Museum, which we had read about in several guidebooks. To get there, though, we had to navigate our way up a hill and across some elevated roads. It wasn't terribly difficult, but it wasn't as easy or pedestrian-friendly as I expected a world-class city like Sydney to be. When we got near the museum, it wasn't yet open, so we continued walking into the quiet, historic neighborhood of Ultimo. We sat at a park bench near an old hotel, enjoying the morning sunlight.

We got to the museum and walked around. It was a pretty cool museum. There were a lot of interactive scientific exhibits that were popular with the kids there. There was also a neat little exhibit about Australian inventions, including the bionic ear and Vegemite. Australia overall was a pretty environmentally conscientious place, and there was an exhibit at the museum with environmental facts and a model home with examples of ways to limit your environmental impact. Our favorite exhibit, though, was about outer space with a lot of amazing color photos of planets, galaxies, and nebulae.

Since we had spent most of our time in Sydney so far in the CBD and immediately surrounding, we had decided to spend Wednesday afternoon exploring some of Sydney's neighborhoods. After the museum, we hopped on the light rail tram to Jubilee Park, where we had a view of the Anzac Bridge.

Anzac Bridge in Sydney on Vimeo.

From there, we found our way to Glebe Point Road, which went through the neighborhood of Glebe. It was a neat area and there were lots of cafes that we walked past. We stopped at a busy Thai restaurant that we had read about and found a place to sit and eat. After that, we walked through the University of Sydney, which is the oldest university in Australia and had some impressive historic and contemporary architecture.

Then we came to the neighborhood of Newtown, which seemed to have endless eating options. We walked along Princes Highway in Newtown for like 45 minutes and the cafes and fast food and restaurants continued on and on. We kind of wished that we hadn't already eaten, but hoped to be able to come back later. We stopped at a cafe where I had some Russian Caravan tea, which I had never seen previously in the US, but seemed to be somewhat common in Australia.

Newtown, Sydney on Vimeo.

After that, we took a train to the neighborhood of King's Cross on the other side of town. That neighborhood has had a mixed past of drugs and crime, but has been cleaned up considerably and is now a somewhat bohemian area with some historic surroundings. There were more strip clubs than we'd seen anywhere else in Sydney, but otherwise it wasn't too much different from other neighborhoods. We walked to the Elizabeth Bay House, a historic home in the area, and sat at the park across the street with a peaceful view of the harbour. It had started to get windy, though, so we got up to walk.

The neighborhood of Darlinghurst was nearby so we walked south towards it. Unfortunately, it was somewhat cool and windy, and the walk wasn't particularly interesting. We did arrive at the Taylor Square area, which had lots of shopping and cafes and restaurants. It was a pretty neat area, but the public pay toilets weren't working and we were both pretty cold. We actually weren't that far away from our hotel, so we decided to walk there to warm up and figure out where to eat.

I thought I had read that the neighborhood of Paddington, which was in the same direction from the CBD as Darlinghurst, but just a little farther out, had a lot of places to eat. We figured out what bus to take and went out to take the bus there. We got off the bus at before we went too far, but we didn't see much to eat in the area. There were a lot of places to shop, and some places to eat, but even though it was only like 6:30, pretty much everything had closed. It also started to rain, but fortunately we were able to find a place to eat.

Dinner was pretty unremarkable. Afterward we caught a bus back into the city and went back to our hotel room. We were a little hungry for dessert, so we found the nearest Max Brenner and went there for the last time. It was kind of busy. We found a seat at the bar where we could watch them preparing food and we got the very rich and very good chocolate souffle.