I went to the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney set in an 1890s police station. It explores Sydney’s criminal & forensic past and has some really interesting stories photos about former criminals on display as well as an old court room.
In the afternoon I took the train to Auburn Botanic Gardens where a Cherry Blossom Festival was about to take place. Aparently the biggest in all over Australia. Auburn is about an hour by train from Sydney. If you pass all the western suburbs of Sydney you get a good impression that not all is sunshine in Australia.
There was a free shuttle bus from the train station to the gardens. It was totally crowded there, mainly Asian people being there. The part with the Japanese Garden was relatively small with only a handful of quite small cherry trees. The ones back home in Bonn and Cologne are by far much more impressive. Nevertheless some people really went crazy taking selfies under the trees, some even wearing special costumes.
