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The Mad Hatter: 'Have I gone mad?'

Alice: 'I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.'

Vivid Sydney

'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but seeing with new eyes.'

Kyoto

'For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards; for there you have been, and there, you will long to return.'

Bondi

'What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't happened yet.'

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'She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by the moonlight to flamenco guitar.'

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'Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.'

The Beautiful Alice from Form 42

'Once you learn how to be happy, you won't tolerate people who make you feel anything less.'

I have never dreamed of blogging. Mostly because I am one of those horrifically technologically handicapped people who only know how to check e-mails and use Word, and partly because I was apprehensive about overly judgemental people. Then I realised, I would do this for myself, just to make me happy.

The Museum of Contemporary Art

'There are times to stay put and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.'

Meeting Miranda Kerr and Gary Pepper

"'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you."

It was another glorious day in Sydney, I think I've been really lucky with the weather for the entirety of May when it was supposed to be winter! We decided to make the most of it and headed out to Hyde Park for some tea and a picnic after work. What we hadn't planned was for Miranda Kerr to be having tea at the same spot, and even better, we had a brief but lovely chat with Nicole (Gary Pepper Girl). I think people who have the courage to go after their dreams are really inspirational, regardless of how far they make it.

Featherdale

'To realise one's destiny is a person's only obligation.'

Continuing on from Katoomba...

I spent the entire bus journey in dreamland, by the time I woke up, I had already arrived at Featherdale!

Katoomba

'If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It's lethal.'

Morning sunshine!

We woke up at 6.00a.m., headed over to Coffee Boulevard for breakfast, and hopped onto a tour bus taking us to Katoomba. Legend goes that there once were three sisters, whose father was a powerful magician. One day, they followed their father into the forest where the Bunyip resided in. Not knowing that the monster was easy to wake, they had a rock-throwing contest, and the youngest of the sisters, by mistake, threw her rock too far, and it tumbled over the cliff, landing right in front of the Bunyip's cave. Naturally, he woke, they screamed, their father screamed. And his solution was to turn them into stone with a magic bone. The Bunyip then began chasing the magician, who in turn became a Lyre bird and lost the magic bone in his flight, which explains why the sisters are still here today, in their stone form.

Everything the light touches is our kingdom.

The Opera House

'Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.'

Paddington Market

'If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make; you will be the same as everyone else.'

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'Be daring. Be different. Be impractical. Be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers. The creatures of the commonplace. The slaves of the ordinary.'

1. Queen Victoria Building

The Fish Market

'The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable: they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.'

White chiffon blazer: 3.1 Phillip Lim. Blue shirt: Ralph Lauren. Gold necklace with pearl: vintage.

Surry Hills

'My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.'

I know I am blogging a month after my time in Sydney, but Surry Hills was actually the first part of town I hit, being attracted to the thought of trendy restaurants and vintage clothing, not to mention Messina ice cream!