So for the last couple of weeks it has been Mardi Gras here. However, until Saturday, you would not have known it was on at all. As on Saturday evening it was the Mardi Gras Gay & Lesbian Parade. Now for those of you who do not know much about Sydney’s Mardi Gras it has always been about gay and lesbian equal rights. This year it was about having the right to Marry in Australia, I think. Something like that anyway.
So, Greig and I, arranged to meet up with Chris and go away from the city to get away from it all. So we headed to Watson Bay. The place people choose to commit suicide here in Sydney according to Chris. Mainly, it would seem, due to its high cliffs. So that was comforting. Anyway, we headed to a bar there and had a couple of drinks overlooking the harbour. Then decided to head to the fish and chip shop for some food, although they wanted £20, about £14 for a chippy. We decided against it. And for some reason decided to head into the city centre.
When we arrived the parade was still going on. However, we had decided to we wanted to go to a gourmet burger place that was on the other side of the road from where we were. So we had two choices: 1) Run through the parade and get tackled by the police or worse, considering the people in the parade. 2) Walk about 3k around the city centre to get to the other side. We decided on the latter. However, once we had finally crossed to the other side, we were met by another challenge. That of a police barrier. By this point we were starving and had not had a drink in about an hour and a half. Then we noticed a couple of girls run through the police barrier in the corner when the police weren’t looking, unfortunately one of them was caught, which took a policeman out of action, this allowed some people on the otherside to make a run for it. This then provided us with an opportunity. So, we ran. And although a wee policewomen shouted at us, she was never going to stop us, and we were away and around the corner. Woohoo, now we thought there is nothing stopping us getting a burger. Oh how wrong we were.
As we got one street away, there was another police barrier on the pavement. They would not budge, and were much bigger than us this time. So we decided to walk round. To be met by another barrier, and another, and another. We could actually see the burger joint by this time. And there was no chance of us getting through these policemen. So Greig decided that charming them would be the best way forward. So he walks over to the biggest policeman he can find and explains how desperate we are to get to the gourmet burger place, “just over there”. Explaining, “we have walked around these streets for 2 hours, please let us go, we just want a burger.” The policeman then saying, “How likely are you to cause trouble?” Greigs reply, “depends how much we drink!” At this point I thought there was no chance, however, this seemed to be funny to the policeman and he let us go through. So we finally had our burger, which was indeed very good. I would recommend it, Mad Max on Crown Street.
Sydney Mardi Gras Pictures
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