Signs - Numbers

A couple of photos of interesting numbers I've found around on my travels.

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In Amsterdam, Holland

In Sydney, Australia

In Porto, Portugal

In Dangar Island, (north of Sydney) Australia

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Perth, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Lisbon, Portugal

Melbourne, Australia

                                                                                                                  0Km sign, Budapest, Hungary              

Monday Mural - Famous Faces - Bondi Beach III

Mural at the "Bondi Graffiti Wall". Photos were taken during my visit to Sydney in October 2018, when I visited Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi Beach, Sydney.

I think you might recognize a few famous faces.

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Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe Beach

Around 250,000 visitors visited the 15th annual Sculpture by the Sea which was held at Cottesloe Beach from the 1st March until the 18th March.

With over 70 sculptures by local and foreign artists it's Western Australia's biggest free event. Sadly due to the lack of sponsorship this event is in danger of being the last one.
I hope not, as it is a fabulous and popular event and brings a lot of tourists to the area too.

If you follow Grace, you might have seen some of the sculptures when she posted about her visit in early March.

These were my favourites in no specific order.

                  

Some of them looked familiar and looking back at my photos of the Bondi in Oct/Nov 2018,
I managed to match a few of them.
The Sydney photo on the left and the Perth photo on the right (or top and bottom).

  

                                        Cottesloe Beach with some of the sculptures scattered on the sand

Across the road inside a pop-up pavilion there was an exhibition with the maquettes or scale models of some of the current and past sculptures, which were for sale.
They were beautiful and dainty, something you could have on your bookshelf if you had a bit of money to spare.

I look forward to seeing a couple of the statues scattered around Perth, as usually a few councils buy statues to put in their parks, new developments, etc. 

Which was your favourite?

Signs - Emerge

On Friday 22nd I went to a free local community event - Emerge - held at Hossack Reserve, a park two blocks from my house. 


The event organized by the City of Canning council, was from 5 to 8pm , and all you had to do was bring a picnic blanket, a chair, your family and dogs if you so wished and enjoy the outdoors.
A few food trucks sold food and sweets, and there was live music, and a few activities mainly aimed at the kids, such as rock climbing, obstacle course, bike track...

The aim of these events is to activate local underutilised spaces and bring the local community together.
I went on my own, there were a lot more people than I expected, but I didn't find any known faces from my neighbourhood.

When I got to the park I went straight to the Wicked Waffles van which belongs to my former colleague Jan and her husband. I visited Jan who now lives in Mandurah in February and you can read about it here. 
We had a bit of a chat and then I went over to the Indian food van to order Chicken Korma at the Paratha Box. After I ate the curry, I ordered a small waffle with cream and syrup.

I returned home at about 7,30pm and shortly after got the call from my son to say baby Eleonor, our granddaughter had been born.

Rock climbing, Live music and picnic tables

Picnic under the lights

A few of the food vans (Wicked waffles - top right)

More signs from the event

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Monday Mural - Spice Alley

I saw these murals the day I visited Cockatoo Island and later my friend and I walked to the inner Sydney area of Chippendale, near Sydney's Central Station, where we visited the "green" building - One Central Park and the Asian restaurants in Kensington Street, known as Spice Alley.

I didn't find names of the artists, but there's a big variety, some of them inside the restaurants, others in the courtyard, all with an Asian flavour. 壁画

If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you;
just follow the Linky steps below.   Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters.  Looking forward to your mural finds this week.  

Thanks, Sami.