The coveted Bondi Beach view — if you don’t have it, fake it!

The “view” from my bathroom. The sun always shines, and it’s always summer on Bondi Beach.

I live in an apartment building on Campbell Parade, the street that curves along Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach. Any dwelling along the road that has a beach view is prime property indeed! I, however, live at the back of my building — much quieter, and with sweeping “district views”. One wall in my bathroom does face the beach, though it does not have a window (just as well, really, because on the other side of that wall is the foyer/lobby area for my floor!).

So I gave myself a view. I took a photo of the beach, slipped it behind a graphic of a window frame (complete with pot plant on the window ledge) and had it printed as a large poster. Then I put it on the wall, and for the finishing touch added real curtains.

Hey presto! I too now have the coveted Bondi Beach view.

(btw, the peach-painted wall is the landlord’s idea, not mine!)

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The view from the window: Sydney Opera House from Queen Mary 2

Sydney Opera House from the Commodore’s Club, Queen Mary 2

My QM2 cruise didn’t leave Sydney until midnight, giving me the chance to take this photo of the opera house from a window-side table in the Commodore’s Club. The reflections of the club’s ceiling lighting add an interesting touch.

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The view from the window: The Grand Canyon Railway

Looking forward from the dome car.

Not the usual view of a train! How often does one get to see the top of the carriages? The feature photo is looking up through a ceiling window in the dome car.

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The view from the window: A hotel in Rome

The balcony beckons …

I know what you’re thinking. This series is called “The view from the window”, so why did I caption this photo “The balcony beckons”? Well, outside the window was a lovely wide planted terrace, and it was no more than the work of a moment to lift a chair out that window and climb out after it myself, there to sit in comfort with a glass of wine and admire the view.

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The view from the window: Shutters

Tropical garden through the shutters

Enticing glimpses of a tropical garden are visible through these shutters in Vanuatu.

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The view from the window: Lace curtains

Oak Alley Plantation, Louisiana

This lace-curtained window looks onto the hedges and columns of the formal entry to Oak Alley Plantation, Louisiana. I can just imagine a woman pushing aside this curtain to peer outside and see who is coming up the very long, oak-tree-lined drive.

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The view from the window: Cairns

Sun, reflections, mist, hills — what more do you need?

This was taken early morning in April in Cairns a couple of years ago. I love the drama of this shot: the mist hanging in the hollows among the hills of the Great Dividing Range, the sun backlighting the clouds, and the reflections in those shiny metal louvres.

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