MAP ILLUSTRATION: KATE SUTTON
Explore the local neighbourhoods of Sydney and the city’s appetite for the good life
THE LIGHT IS BRONZE, SHADOWS LONG, and beside Sydney’s most famous building a throng of people is drinking at the Opera Bar. From here, they are close enough to see that the Opera House’s sails are tiled in a zigzag pattern like the fletchings on an arrow. To its western flank, the iron girders of Sydney Harbour Bridge loom, solid. Beyond, the glowing sun sinks towards the horizon.