What I noticed this year was the wealth of characters down on the Mall. There were musicians, people performing their arses off and people making a splash doing nothing at all. Some of my favourites were: the stone man and the hoola hoop Korean guy [pictured here]. A man playing "Strawberry Fields for ever" on a rickety old piano and a group of south American guitar players who had it all together, complete with a girl selling their CDs.
What with the music flowing around and the general feeling of coolness in the air, it makes the Mall a really place nice to be. I try to imagine people in Sydney standing round watching a guy dressed up as a statue (like the people in the photo, aren't they groovy with the expressions on their faces?) and I have a lot of trouble. They're in too much of a hurry rushing off somewhere else to make money.
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