Art Gallery of New South Wales

Sydney - It was a cold and windy day which deserves a nice walk to the park, it took us about 10 minutes of brisk walking down Market Street to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This Art Museum is one of Australia's leading and very popular among locals and tourist alike. Located at along Art Gallery Road and it's free admission. Every Wednesday it closes at 10pm.

The Art Gallery of NSW is Sydney's fine art gallery and was establised in 1871. The Gallery presents a fine collection of both national and international artwork from 19th century Australian works to European masters.

Some of the Art Gallery interesting art pieces of works.

Pablo Picasso art

Music of Art

The Art Gallery cafe serves good deserts and coffee. Sitting outside in the nice and beautiful weather sipping coffee was very nice.

Dark Chocolate Brownie

a pair of scones and my cup of cuppacino

We walked back to Darling Harbour to try our luck for some good Australian seafood and came across Cyren restaurant. We ordered the seafood platter.

Cyren Seafood platter for 2

There was fresh oysters, cooked mussels, cold prawns, batter fried calamaris, prawns and soft shell crabs. The battered fried seafood was half the platter which was not pleasing as I was expecting more fresh seafood.

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Calesa around Intramuros

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Temple Street Night Market

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