I arrived in Sydney early afternoon and after being taken to where I was staying had a few hours to kill so what was I to do !

NELSON HOTEL My first pub in Sydney and not a bad place to start. An enormous horse shoe bar and tiled walls. Magnificent ! It was just a pity that the first drink I had was from the pump directly in front of me and turned out to be lager.

WOOLLAHRA HOTEL I took this picture for professional reasons but as I was close I had a look in the pub. Cooper's Sparkling Ale seemed a good name so I tried it. Not a bad pint although being cloudy was a little offputting to start with. Wine Bar(ish) with minimalist furnishings but, I was to find out later, this is now a "trendy" area.

BELLEVUE HOTEL Having been a working class area you find a pub on one street corner another in the middle of the street and yet another on the next corner. HEAVEN ! This one has also been "improved" but it was comfortable and still a pub.

PHEONIX HOTEL No mistaking what this place was. A pub. Or was it a betting shop ? This was where I first noticed a betting shop in a pub, well actually it was a kiosk at the end of the bar. It was something I became accustomed to in Sydney. This may not seem out of the ordinary to some but in Britain it isn't too long ago that betting shops were even allowed to sell cups of tea and coffee to the punters.

LORD DUDLEY Now this was a "Traditional Pub". Not a "Traditional British Pub" just a pub which has moved with the times but kept hold of some of its original late nineteenth character. It even has its own website called The Lord Dudley strangely enough.

MAP