Through Cedric's viewfinder

more than 2000 years old work of art.. simply amazing! admire the level of detail of these bronze unearthed in 1980.

The Qin bronze chariot (銅車馬) or (秦銅車馬) is a two-piece Qin dynasty bronze artifact. The first piece “bronze chariot one” (一號銅車馬) consist of a driver with two seats in the chariot with a bronze umbrella. The second piece “bronze chariot two” (二號銅車馬) is a separate carriage. Both are about 50% the size of a real horse. The chariot was unearthed in 1980 at the Qin Shi Huang mausoleum. It is one of 64 designated historical artifacts that can never leave Chinese soil.
When the artifact was first found, it was in broken pieces. It took five years to restore both the chariots together. Today the chariot is stored at the “Museum of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang” (秦始皇兵馬俑博物館) in Shaanxi.
(source: wikipedia)

happy students, I shared their break between two classes

with my wonderful hosts for an improvised lunch

Long history here, the first Luna park opened its gate in 1935 at the foot of the bridge!

The Finger Wharf or Woolloomooloo Wharf is a wharf in Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, Australia. The structure is one of the largest timbered-piled building in the world and was completed in 1915. During its working life for around 70 years it mainly handled the export of wool, but also acted as a staging point for troop deployment to the World Warsas well as a disembarking point for new migrants arriving in Australia.

Today it has been redeveloped as a fashionable complex housing a hotel, restaurants and residential apartments. (wikipedia)