I like Bondi in the winter. There are times you can walk along the promenade in winter and feel a wonderful sense of space being in Bondi, like you are of out town somewhere. It reminds me of times past when there wasn’t a constant flow of backpackers and tourists. Last night I spent about […]
Categories: Bondi
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Tags: Alpine, Australia, Bondi Beach, Bondi ice rink, ice skating, skater, Waverley Council
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So yesterday was a glorious winter’s day and I decided to take a walk down to the beach area of Bondi. There were lots of people around – as there often is on Sunday morning – with Bondi markets etc. and Bondi was buzzing. But as I walked I really felt overwhelmed with all the […]
Categories: Bondi, Development, Tourism
| Tags: Bondi, Bondi Beach, Bondi Surf Club, contruction site, local newspaper, retail, Tourism, Town Centre, Waverley Council
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Back in the days before our homes had several entertainment screens in them, the only way to get some screen entertainment was to go the picture theatre – or cinema, as we now know it. In the Bondi area alone (including Bondi Junction), there were at least half a dozen picture theatres in operation around […]
Categories: Bondi, Cinema, Development, Entertainment, History, Picture Theatres
| Tags: Bondi Beach, food, food hall, Hall St, King, King's Cinema, Mary Poppins, Metro cinema, North Rose Bay, prime real estate, Rose Bay, Star Cinema, The Creole Disco, the Star
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Last year The Bondi Tram Disco part of the Bondi Hotel, and the Gould Street drive-through bottlo vanished when the bulldozers came in to make way for yet another development at Bondi Beach. Known as The Beach House this new 5-storey development will comprise residential apartments and retail spaces. Waverley Councillor Mayor Sally Betts has […]
Categories: Bondi, Development
| Tags: Adam Gibson, Bombora Bar, Bondi Beach, Bondi Hotel, Bondi Hotels, Bondi Tram Disco, Development, Mayor, retail arcade, retail spaces, Sally Betts, The Beach House, USD, Waverley Councillor
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Before Bondi became a BRAND… – you could buy pies and cream puffs from the Flying Pieman at 3.30 in the morning – there were 3 petrol stations on Campbell Parade – the Astra was a grungy pub renowned for being somewhere you could always score – you’d have ‘eyeballs’ at ‘the concrete’ – you could buy […]
Categories: Bondi, Commercialisation, Development, History
| Tags: Bondi Beach, Dover Heights Bowling Club, Gelato Bar, Hall Street, Queen, Rose Bay, Rose Bay wharf
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Early in 1992 I arrived back in Bondi after spending 3 months holidaying and working in Thailand. When I returned to Sydney, it was difficult to find work. I’d been a bit of a bedroom musician…played keyboards/piano, had jammed with friends and had dabbled in songwriting. Then a friend of a friend told me about […]
Categories: Bondi, Democracy, History, Music
| Tags: Bangkok, bedroom musician, Bondi Pavilion, Democracy Monument, General, injuries, mp3, Suchinda Kraprayoon, Sydney, Thailand, The Monument
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I expect that when most people think about Bondi they’re thinking of the beach area, or of the Campbell parade area. For me, “Bondi” is actually quite a large area. Although a lot of things in this blog may be primarily concerned with the Beach area of Bondi, when I’m imagining Bondi, I‘m not just […]
Categories: Bondi, Locality, Maps
| Tags: Bellevue Hill, Bondi Beach, Dover Heights, Newtown, Rose Bay, Sydney, Waverley, Waverley College
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Today was a stunningly beautiful warm autumn day in Sydney, 26 degrees and it’s almost mid-May. Of course Bondi just shone. Great day to be starting this blog. You could say I’m a Bondi girl…I was born in Bondi, grew up in Bondi and I still live in Bondi. There have been a couple of […]
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