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Try the Noretta, on Hwy 7 towards Kitchener. Rooms cost from $54 a double. Majers Motel, a little farther out, has rooms for about the same price. There are other motels along here, including the attractive but more costly Rose court Erie StY. Near the tourist office, the York St Kitchen (41 York Sf) turns out excellent sandwiches ($5) and picnic plates which might include a bit of smoked salmon or corn on the cob. There is a takeout order window and the park by the river (right across the street) makes a good eating spot. It also has a few tables inside where you could try a lamb curry or pasta dish ($10). Let Them Eat Cake is good for a cheap breakfast or lunch or simply a dessert and coffee.

Visit Trattoria Fabrizio 71 Wellington StY for Italian sandwiches and pastas under $7. It also has various snacks, desserts and espresso. As befits an English-style town, there are quite a few pubs about. Canada Stratford's Olde English Parlour Wellington StY has an outdoor patio. The Queen's Inn, with several different eating rooms, has a pub for inexpensive and standard menu items including a ploughman's lunch. The Queen's Sunday and Wednesday evening buffets in the dining room are good. Dining rooms in some of the other inns also cater to the theatre crowd with more costly fare. Expensive Rundles (9 Coburg StY, where a dinner is about $55 before wine, has a good reputation. Away from the centre, over the bridge and down Huron St about 2km, Madelyn's Diner Huron StY is a friendly little place to have any meal. Breakfasts are served all day (from 7 am) and are good, as are the home-made pies. It's closed Sunday evening and all day Monday. There are a few fast-food joints and a Chinese place on Canada Ontario St heading out of town. For making your own picnic check the Franz Kissling Delicatessen.

 Bus Several small bus lines servicing the region operate out of the VIA Rail station, which is quite central at 101 Shakespeare St, off Downie St about eight blocks from Ontario St. ChaCo Trails buses connect Stratford with Kitchener, from where you can go to Toronto. They also run buses to London with Windsor connections and some other southern Ontario towns. Train There are two daily trains to Toronto from the VIA Rail station. Trains also go west to London or Sarnia, with connections for Windsor. Some 12km east of Stratford along Hwy 8, this village is geared to visitors with the main street offering numerous antique, furniture and craft shops. To the west of Stratford, St Marys is a small Victorian crossroads with a former opera house and some fine stone homes as reminders of its good times last century. The Westover Inn tucked down Thomas St, and surrounded by lawns and trees, is a quiet, five-star hotel with a dining room. Several kilometres from the town, off Hwy 7 and back towards Stratford, is the Wildwood Conservation Area. It isn't particularly attractive for the Canadian tourists and travellers on vacation tours, but you can camp or go for a quick swim.

For better swimming, try the spring-fed limestone quarry just outside St Marys. It costs a couple of dollars and there are change rooms and a snack bar. 

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The inside of the nearby pseudo-Gothic Garrison Church, built between 1840 and 1843, is adorned with the dusty flags of the British regiments who once worshiped here; the church is still used by the Australian Army. 

The main commuter terminal for harbor ferries, Circular Quay is also the only place Sydney's bus, ferry and train services intersect (it was originally called Semi-Circular Quay, which makes a lot more sense). To confuse visitors, its five wharves are numbered from two to six - Wharf 1 having succumbed to the gentrification of Circular Quay East.

Opposite the wharves, the imposing colonial Customs House building is now a cultural and gallery for those who dare, the Harbor Bridge Climb affords unparalleled views across central Sydney and the Opera House on Bennelong Point.  Diamu means "I am here" in the language of Sydney's traditional owners, the Yura houses the Australian Museum's collection of indigenous art and cultural exhibits from Australia and the South Pacific, the largest of its kind in Australia.

From The time to time the gallery hosts free cultural programs, including concerts and Aboriginal storytelling. Past Circular Quay, in Bennelong Point, is the pearl-like sails of Australia's most famous urban icon, the Sydney Opera House. Inlaid in the paving from the Quay towards the Opera House are tributes to writers,Who are from or have written about Australia, among them Banjo Patterson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ted Hughes (of The Fatal Shore), 

Mark Twain, and dozens of others.

 Although the first Opera House performance was in 1960, when militant unionists invited black American singer and activist Paul Robeson to sing at the building site, work wasn't completed until 1973. The building has weathered heavy criticism over its design, its cost ($105 million vs. an original budget of $6.7 million,) and its acoustics. The design has since grown on Sydneysiders, the interior has recently been overhauled and its acoustics fine- tuned. 

In addition, free lunchtime organ recitals in the 25-m-high (85-ft) Concert Hall, which seats 2,700, have opened it to the public.

The Opera House now holds 3,000 opera, theater, dance and concert performances a year. Guided one-hour tours depart from the tour office on the lower forecourt from 9 AM to 4 PM, except during performances or rehearsals. Built during the Crimean War in 1857 as a defense post against any possible Russian invasion, Fort Denison sits incongruously on tiny Pinchgut Island, east of the Opera House. It’s One O'clock Cannon is still fired daily.

The island was once used to punish recalcitrant convicts. Marooned here in chains, they were given meager supplies of bread and water, hence the island's name. There are tours to the island from Circular Quay, but you get a reasonably good view of it from the Manly, Rose Bay or Watsons Bay ferries. 

Darling Harbor 

A lot of money has been spent on attracting tourist dollars to the newly developed Darling Harbor area, easily reached by Monorail from the city center. It suffers a little from its very commercial orientation and the monolithic Star City casino complex Pyrmont Street, open 24 hours and adds the little charm to the area.

Nevertheless, some of Sydney's must-sees are in the Darling Harbor area. Although the restaurants in the Harborside Marketplace are average and over- priced, the wide boardwalk is pleasant on a warm evening, with the city skyline sparkling across the small harbor. Across the Monorail walk-bridge, the Cockle Bay development boasts better restaurants and a couple of urban-chic bars. A celebration of science, technology, and popular culture, the ever-changing Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo, is housed in a converted power station.

Its dynamic exhibitions include hands-on interactive displays often combining videos and computer gadgetry. Open daily 10 AM to 5 PM; adults $8, children $5. Exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum Murray Street range from Aboriginal canoes to First Fleet and more modern naval vessels. Most memorable, though, are tours on the working vessels moored outside: a Vietnamese refugee boat, the 1983 America's up winning Australia racing yacht. Plexiglas tunnels give a fish-eye view of the harbor at the Sydney Aquarium Pier, Darling Harbor.