I am in Sydney this week for the Open Publish Conference, which starts in 3 hours. And I am here with my Dad, who came with me … I’ll be doing the conference thing, and he’ll be doing the tourist thing.

I haven’t been to Sydney in tourist mode before … it’s always been for work and meeting people. But yesterday, with my more traveled father, we looked at the sights after landing from New Zealand. After checking into our hotel in the city, we took the train across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and then walked back along it. Here’s a picture from the bridge of the Opera House:

After getting off the bridge, we walked down to the quay, and then around to the Opera House, and then up through the Botanical Gardens, and then through Hyde Part back to the hotel. It was an 8-10 km walk in all. A late lunch in one of the arcades, and for me it was then back to work.

But it was delightful to walk through a little bit of Sydney, and I felt the benefit of the fresh air and sunshine.