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Glebe , right by Australia's oldest university, and only a fifteen-minute walk up Broadway from Central Station, has gradually been evolving from a cafe-oriented student quarter to more upmarket thirtysomething territory with a New Age slant. Indeed, it's very much the centre of alternative culture in Sydney, with its yoga schools and healing centres offering every kind of therapy, from Chinese massage to homeopathy and float tanks. Saturday is much the best time to come to get a taste of the area, when Glebe Market is in full swing . Glebe Point Road , the focal point of the area, is filled with an eclectic mix of cafes with trademark leafy courtyards, restaurants, bookshops (check out Gleebooks at no. 49 & no. 191), an art-house cinema and secondhand and speciality shops as it runs uphill from Broadway, becoming quietly residential as it slopes down towards the water of Rozelle Bay . The side streets are fringed with renovated two-storey terraced houses with white iron-lacework verandahs. Its laid-back villagey feel makes it very popular with travellers: there is a good YHA hostel among others , an internet cafe and even a backpackers' travel centre, as well as the handy Broadway Shopping Centre , which is linked by an overhead walkway from Glebe Point Road and lies opposite one of the street's favourite cafes, Badde Manors .
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