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RCI EV Issue 8 Spring 2013

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LANDMARKS<br />

HISTORICAL SYDNEY<br />

Sydney<br />

Pub Crawl<br />

Soak up Australia’s<br />

colourful past in<br />

these historic bars<br />

BASED ON AN ARTICLE<br />

BY TONY PERROTTET, SYDNEY PUB CRAWL<br />

(U.S. ENDLESS VACATION MAGAZINE)<br />

Any Sydneysider can map the city by its historic pubs. These atmospheric watering<br />

holes (officially called hotels because they once offered rooms as well as beer) provide a hedonistic<br />

key to exploring Australia’s most beautiful city. They range from venerable sandstone relics to elegant<br />

Victorian bars and boisterous 1920’s workingmen’s pubs the height of Sydney fashion. Many now have<br />

top-notch restaurants, others spectacular views. But each offers a bar-side window onto Australia’s past,<br />

which, as Mark Twain observed after a 1895 visit, “does not read like history, but the most beautiful lies.”<br />

ENDLESS VACATION 15

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