{"id":89,"date":"2026-09-27T07:17:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/a-day-in-sydney-gatecrashed-by-a-cruise-ship\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T07:17:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:17:48","slug":"a-day-in-sydney-gatecrashed-by-a-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/a-day-in-sydney-gatecrashed-by-a-cruise-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney, gardens, and a cruise ship invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a proper day in Sydney &#8211; botanical gardens were worth every step. Then a cruise ship let its passengers loose all at once, like someone popped a champagne cork and out came a thousand, mostly obese people in matching lanyards. I&#8217;ve seen smaller crowds at a grand final. Gave the gardens back to the ducks and went to the museum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-ceabc2a3-cc95-4974-ac5d-2a1da1e13860.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney, gardens, and a cruise ship invasion\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-41bdd769-2e75-4911-8af4-4223b1492842.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney, gardens, and a cruise ship invasion\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-ae9a3ebd-311b-489a-a88f-578948f3b59a.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney, gardens, and a cruise ship invasion\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-d85a50e7-e857-4d11-8256-159fc7e3eefb.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney, gardens, and a cruise ship invasion\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-07dda53b-4814-464c-8f7d-850fb1648452.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney, gardens, and a cruise ship invasion\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-d4dff56a-15b9-4494-a36c-3734f7c93938.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney, gardens, and a cruise ship invasion\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-1bda4102-5d8f-4a08-87d8-11c6b78567bf.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney, gardens, and a cruise ship invasion\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a proper day in Sydney &#8211; botanical gardens were worth every step. Then a cruise ship let its passengers loose all at once, like someone popped a champagne cork and out came a t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exploring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}