Recalibrate your clock and reflect on the maxim, how we spend our days is how we spend our lives. Mark a ‘slow day’ in your calendar for January, and get to work on noticing the magnificence of Sydney in Summer.

Detour – turn left where you would normally turn right and explore a new suburb. Get off the train or bus a few stops early and walk the rest of the way home. Catch a ferry, any ferry. Sample some of the things about which tourists rave. Stop and smell – in our case – the frangipanis. But, most importantly: stop.

Look.
Listen.
Smell.
Touch and taste.