Daily Detours for the Week of November 6
Featuring a huge food, art and music festival that donates its entry fee to charity.
Daily Detours for the Week of November 6
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Featuring a huge food, art and music festival that donates its entry fee to charity.
When your nine-to-five plays out like a well-oiled machine, it can sometimes feel like each week is a little same-same. But Sydney is brimming with a fine bounty of things to experience and explore each and every day. So aside from casual laziness and a little lack of inspiration, there's really nothing stopping you from squeezing some adventure and spontaneity into your schedule.
We've teamed up with Mazda3 to help you celebrate the little things that bring a sense of adventure to life. Shake things up, as we give you seven different detours to take each week in Sydney. From Monday to Sunday, enrich your everyday with one completely achievable activity that inspires you to take the scenic route as you go about your daily routine.
This week, try an F45 class (then go eat ramen), go to a near-empty museum instead of the races and watch the doggo awards at the Newtown Festival. Plus, we've got your future detours sorted for the new few weeks here.
All require no more effort than a tiny break from the norm — what's your excuse for not trying them all?
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You’ve slogged your way through another Monday. Congratulations. Resist the temptation to head home to sit comatose on the couch and, instead, get a heady endorphin rush by finally trying out an F45 class. The exercise trend that’s all over your social media feeds, this is high-intensity circuit training at it’s most brutal — and invigorating. Sweat your way through the 45-minute class, trying your best not to pass out. Afterwards, reward yourself for surviving with a delicious bowl of Monday-only ramen from Chaco Bar in Darlinghurst. Hurry over, though, because this ramen is first-come first-serve and it disappears quick fast.
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Melbourne Cup not really your thing? If you’re more of a culture buff than a horse race fan, take advantage of the near-empty museums to finally go see The Moderns: European Designers in Sydney at the Museum of Sydney. While the rest of the nation goes absolutely bonkers over the races, you’ll be able to wander through the popular show at your leisure. Part of the museum’s A Modernist Season series, the exhibition explores the influence that Sydney’s immigrant furniture makers, interior designers and architects had on modernist design in the city. Focusing on the years between the 1930s and 1960s, this object-rich show features furniture, design, artworks and photographs to introduce visitors to the lost influences that made Sydney into the city it is today.
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You’ve made it through hump day in one piece. To celebrate, take full advantage of the balmy spring evenings, fish and chips in hand at Bondi Beach. Although fish and chip shops are a dime a dozen on Campbell Parade, we’re absolute suckers for Bondi’s Best, whose fare entirely lives up to its name. Take your lightly-battered pieces of fresh hoki and hand-cut chips up to Sam Fiszman Park at the northern end of the beach. With its sweeping views over Bondi, this is the perfect place to get all the salty fresh air without the swarming crowds.
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There is such a thing as a this Twisties burger and it lives in Sydney’s northwest. Make your way to the Burger Head pop-up in Beaumont Hills for the Penrith-based burger joint’s monstrous creation and some all-round top burgs, has popped up in Beaumont Hills. Twisties burger not your thing? On the menu you’ll also find all the tasty morsels that’ve had Penrith salivating, from their cheeseburger (Angus beef patty, onion, pickles, cheese, Burgerhead sauce and mustard mayo) to the Clucker (buttermilk fried chicken thigh, pickled onion and mayo).
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To celebrate the end of the week (finally) grab your mates and get yourself to Gurdy’s for happy hour to devour some ridiculously tasty tapioca-crusted haloumi fries. Once you’ve had your fill, it’s just a skip down King Street to the former Newtown Social Club for a round of putt putt at Holey Moley. Located in the old bandroom, this 18-hole mini-golf course is great fun, with each hole themed within an inch of its life. This means you can putt in the Simpsons living room, through a Mouse Trap-like contraption, into the Nine-Iron Throne and underneath a donkey with a Donald Trump for an ass. It’s as nuts — and incredible — as it sounds. And if you still have space post-haloumi fries, grab yourself some snacks from the bao station between holes.
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If a romantic night under the stars has been on your date bucket list for ages, tick it off by taking your current flame to the Northern Sydney Astronomical Society for their monthly observing night. For a $10 donation, you and your date can feast your eyes on the constellations at your leisure. Located in Terrey Hills, the society boasts access to a patch of unadulterated sky — a rarity in a time when light pollution has made the Milky Way invisible to a third of the world’s population. As with most of these astro society hangouts, there are telescopes to share and stargazing experts to point out the myriad phenomena taking place in the starry void. No date? No problem. If you’re a lonely wanderer through the vast wash of space, this may well be the place to enter the orbit of some like-minded people.
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Last year, Newtown Festival brought thousands to the streets in celebration of the inner west’s uniquely weird and wonderful culture. This year, the festival returns to Camperdown Memorial Rest Park for its 39th year on Sunday with the theme Home is Where the Heart is. Entry fee is a gold coin which goes directly to social change leaders, Newtown Neighbourhood Centre. There’ll be food stalls by the ‘Newtown Locals’ including Bloodwood, Hartsyard, Fleetwood Macchiato. N2 Gelato, Young Henrys, Stinking Bishops and Mary’s among numerous others, market stalls, art, many a pup and musicians, including 16 local music acts picked by Aussie music legend and Newtown local, Sarah Blasko. You’ll be able to Belt tunes to your heart’s content with Heaps Gay’s Closet Karaoke, as well as watch the best doggos win awards in the Doggie Dash and Celebrity Look-a-Like contest.
