One Fabulous City to Another | Four Days in Sydney

Hello all!

We are back! If you are following our social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) then you would have seen that we spent four days in Sydney this past weekend, with our wonderful and dear friend, Miriam. This was our first trip in a long time, and the longest time Claire has been in the city (previously exceeding her record of two days), so you can understand our excitement. 

Lately we have felt we have not been fulfilling our dreams as bloggers very well, looking at the Instagram accounts and posts of our favourite blogs (let us know if we should do a post about our favorite bloggers!) with awe and envy. As a result, we decided this trip would be a new beginning and refresh for our blogging habits. Hooray!

Macaroons from Laduree! Can you believe Westfield in Sydney has a Laduree?! And we haven't even been to Paris yet!

On Saturday we didn't document much, as we mainly traveled, and then went shopping (when your hotel is around the corner from Pitt Street Mall, the new Westfield, and across the road from Topshop, it's obviously the first thing you do.) For lunch thought we had these delicious Truffle and Parmesan fries from Charlie & Co. 

(pssst. Charlie & Co. is also in Melbourne at the Emporium, so you too can have a taste of these delicious potatoes!) 

 Sunday morning we had a look at The Rocks Market. Look at that view of the Sydney Harbor Bridge! 

Winter Market Style - Grace Edition

We had lunch at La Renaissance Patisserie at The Rocks, which had this beautiful courtyard.

The Museum of Contemporary Art rooftop had the most amazing views. Perfect background for photos!

This is our fabulous friend Miriam, who accompanied us on the trip. Together we are the Rose Golden Trio. She also has a blog, which she runs with 9 other friends called Mosaik, so go check it out. 

Of course we also checked out fabulous MCA collection inside, too.

After the MCA, we had a walk around Circular Quay, since it turned out to be such a BEAUTIFUL and sunny day. 
Sunday night we went to the movies at the Dendy cinema at Circular Quay and saw Far From the Madding Crowd, which we enjoyed very much. 

On Monday we went to the Art Gallery of New South Wales and saw the Wynne, Archibald and Sulman prizes, as well as their other exhibits.

This is Claire's favourite wall from the Archibald Prize. She just loves how the artworks are collated together in size and tone. Major gallery wall inspo (As it is, in fact, a gallery wall)

The Archibald Prize 2015 winner

Nigel Milsom - Judo house part 6 (the white bird)

Art Gallery of NSW 19th Century European Collection. 

One of our favorite exhibits we saw was See You At The Barricades, an exhibit which explored protest, art, and how they exist within one another. Here are two walls featuring posters from feminist activist group Guerrilla Girls highlighting different facts on where women are marginalised in the art and culture worlds.

For lunch, Claire's Sydney friends took us to Coco Cubano on Oxford Street. Unfortunately, we didn't get photos of our burgers, they were just too good, we dove right in. 

Claire with her lovely Sydney friends Emily and Carla. Thank you for playing tourist with us!

After lunch, Emily and Carla headed home, and we went to the Australian Museum. We quite enjoyed the dinosaur exhibit. 

On Monday night we went up to the Sydney Tower Eye. The views were breathtaking,so many beautiful lights. We then had dinner at Macchiato on Pitt Street, which was divine! We love a good pizza. 

Tuesday was our last day, and we were heading back to Melbourne that night. We checked out of the hotel early and had a lovely morning stroll through the Botanical Gardens. We walked three times forward and three times backwards around the Wishing tree (fingers crossed our wishes come true!), saw the twin ponds (because obviously) and took pictures of this magnificent view of the Harbor Bridge and Opera House in one. 

Government House is absolutely beautiful, and so of course we had to get photos in front of it. Unfortunately we couldn't go on a tour, but just by seeing the outside, you can tell how magnificent and elegant it is. 

Brunch at Portobello Cafe on Circular Quay.

To finish off, we all had a lovely glass of wine at Opera Bar, basking in the sun, as we knew Melbourne would be grey and cold, as usual.

While we are glad to be back in Melbourne, our favourite city, Sydney was beautiful. It was so great to have a couple of days of relaxing and working on your own schedule, enjoying a city without having to worry about work, Uni, or thinking "Oh, we should probably head home soon and do this..." 

A lovely refresher before the craziness of Semester Two begins on Monday!

Thank you for  reading and we hope you enjoyed it! 

Stay Gold!

Claire and Grace xx