Went to see the Bacon exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. That’s not the delicious slices of cured pig meat, unfortunately, that’s Francis Bacon, English artist who paints scary pictures of distorted people often screaming. (He stole the scream idea from a scene in the famous film Battleship Potemkin.)
Jan loved it, I was a bit bored by it, I must admit. Maybe I’m just not highbrow enough. I preferred the bent Bugatti that was in the art gallery, very nice, shame you couldn’t drive it.
We travelled into the city on the Rivercat ferry. It’s usually a lovely trip with great scenery. But the weather was foul – grey and blowing a gale (literally). It was too windy to sit on the outside deck so we had to cram inside.
Never mind, we were entertained by views of sailing dinghies capsizing all over the place and wetsuited sailors trying to right their craft.
The walk from Circular Quay to the gallery through the Botanic Gardens, usually a lovely stroll, was a battle against the wind and cold. Just like English weather!
It was so windy that they had to pause the Australian Open Golf tournament at The Lakes in Sydney for a few hours.
