Our third weekend here in Sydney. This weekend we toured around Sydney - Sydney Chinatown, more CBD, Paddington, Bondi Beach. Visiting Sydney on the weekend is very different. Weekend markets are very popular here - fashion and jewelries by local designers, arts and paintings, etc. We also visited the Hyde Barracks Museum. This building is once home to many prisoners, old but well-maintained. Knowing a little bit about the convict history of Australia, we went in with a high expectations. To our great disappointment, the museum was full of only rusted cutlery, names of prisoners, and clothes... Later, we found out that pretty much every city has a museum about the convicts, haha.. what else is there about Australian history? Chinatown here is quite different - no rotten vegetables on the ground, no fake purses.. in
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