Sydney Opera House
I finally did the Opera House tour when I flew over to Sydney for a weekend from Canberra. It was a pretty good tour - the tour guide was excellent. The views from inside the building are really magnificent. Unfortunately, we couldn't take pictures of any of the actual performance rooms as there were people working in all of them at the time - their privacy regulations are such that if anyone is working in the rooms, you can't take photos.
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The tour guide for the Sydney Opera House mentioned that this area, with the windows facing the harbour, was designed to be like the bridge on a ship. I've never been on the bridge of a ship, but I imagine it looks something like this in those big huge cruise ships.
A close up of the side of the Sydney Opera House, showing some of the thousands of little off-white tiles that make up its outer surface. The tour guide mentioned that they don't have to wash the tiles - rain keeps them clean. He also said that they're not white so that the structure doesn't become blinding in the sun, which makes sense.
