Day 7 in Sydney

Our last full day in Sydney! The weather forecast earlier in the week had predicted a very rainy day, but when we woke up in the morning, the forecast indicated cloudy, but not really for rain... so we decided to head out and see what we could do!

We had decided that we'd try a coffee shop just down the street...

It was named "Batch" and had a counter right at the sidewalk -- we wanted to get breakfast, and I thought I had read that they had Three-Cheese Toastie (a grilled cheese sandwich) -- I didn't see it on the menu, so decided to get a bacon & egg wrap. We had also read that the Batch Breaky Burger was quite the meal, so Carl ordered that...

There was also an entrance around to the side where you could also order choices that might be good for taking in for lunch.

There was a young man who delivered the orders to those waiting on stools across the sidewalk. He also placed the orders for many folks -- greeting them by name, asking if they wanted "some-strange-combination-of-words-that-probably-communicated-a-specialty-coffee-drink" -- he seemed to know lots of their regular customers and their desired special combinations.

We walked over to Australia Square to sit down to eat -- this was Carl's Batch Breaky Burger -- it was definitely a meal in a sandwich!

It sprinkled a little while we were at Australia Square, but we were able to get a table that had an umbrella, so it was fine for us.

We had discussed walking across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, *not* the Bridge Climb, but just using the pedestrian walkway at the roadway level, so we headed back down to Circular Quay (has there been any day here that we did *not* go to Circular Quay? Maybe on the day that we did the bus trip to Blue Mountains...).

We found the steps to get us up onto the bridge... but there was also an elevator nearby, so we used it!

We saw the building that looks like it is built of shipping containers -- I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Building

Some information from the Wikipedia article: " ...the building is a prominent example of Brutalist architecture in Australia. It also has striking repetitive geometries in reaction to the Japanese metabolist architecture movement. Notable for being the only high rise development in The Rocks, Sirius housed 79 apartments with one, two, three or four bedrooms, generally with single storey apartments to two and three storey walk ups. The complex was built to rehouse displaced public tenants after a controversial redevelopment of the Rocks during the 1960s and 70s." (Patti's notes: "Brutalist"? "metabolist"? If you go to the Wikipedia article, you'll find links to other articles describing those concepts!)

Passing by the Pylon on the south side -- there is a lookout that we could have gone up, but we elected not to go. The pedestrian walkway was broad and easy to use. Side note: doesn't this look like a black-and-white picture with the exclusion of that one tiny patch of blue?

We had new views of the harbour area...

Selfie on the bridge

Another couple who were also on the bridge (and who would also be on our cruise!) offered to take our pictures.

Another picture taken by our "new" friends

Plaque on the bridge 

It wasn't a gorgeous day -- but better than we anticipated, and we enjoyed it.