Balmain Historic Pub Walking Tour with Beer or Wine – Sydney, Australia
EXPERIENCE
If you ask a Sydneysider about Balmain, they think of 3 things: the Balmain Tigers footy team, Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser and pubs. Lots of pubs. In fact, Balmain has the highest pub-to-person ratio in Australia.
This 3-hour walking tour of this peninsula on Sydney Harbour covers Balmain’s sordid history of escaped convicts,dodgy gangsters and corrupt politicians. In between weaving the backstreets, you’ll stop for a drink of craft beer, wine or cider in 4 of the area’s most iconic and oldest pubs.
You can enjoy a choice of craft beer or wine in each pub that you visit!
Tour include:
Balmain’s Oldest PubThe Balmain Watch House, and stories of Balmain gangstersThe Balmain Tigers’ ‘Team of the Penitentiary’Duelling colonistsThe murderous confectionerThe hidden treasure of Australia’s most audacious robbery- and many more tales of murder, vice and intrigue
HIGHLIGHTS
Enjoy a beer or wine at each pub that you visit
Discover the fascinating history of Balmain and all its character and dark stories
Learn about the gangsters, convicts and hard times of Australia back in the day whilst enjoying a nice drop
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