Leaving New
Zealand and sailing to Sydney, Australia
BY NOW WE STARTED GETTING TOTALLY CONFUSED WITH TIME ZONES, DAYS AND WHICH SIDE OF THE ROAD TO DRIVE.
SINCE WE LEFT TONGA CLEARLY LEFT SIDE DRIVING, STILL DISTURBING EVEN IF WE DID NOT HAVE TO DO THE DRIVING. SITTING ON A BUS, LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW AND SEEING CARS COMING THE "WRONG WAY", WOW!
THE FOLLOWING SITE WAS A SAVIOR TO FIND OUT OUR TIME ZONE.
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
YOU MIGHT NOT NEEDED BUT SURELY DO.
On the 5th of February (a month after we left home)
We sailed into the beautiful harbor at 7:30 AM and docked immediately across from the spectacular opera house.
City waking up
Impressive bridge, one can walk on the top
wished I had the time to do it
The Sydney Opera House's roof has
1,056.006 tiles
We sailed into the beautiful harbor at 7:30 AM and docked immediately across from the spectacular opera house.
City waking up
Impressive bridge, one can walk on the top
wished I had the time to do it
The Sydney Opera House's roof has
1,056.006 tiles
Our 2 days in
Sydney were a little different.
Day 1: Anči
went shopping great centers, street full of all shops you can imagine….spent
some money, of course. Jost played
golf. It was fun but the course was less
than wonderful.
Anči could not resist putting her feet in the Pacific Ocean
Day 2: The following
day we toured the surrounding areas, went to Bondi Beach,
"Bondi" or "Boondi" is an Aboriginal word meaning water breaking over rocks or noise of water breaking over rocks, a great surfer’s paradise,
and then toured the Opera House.
"Bondi" or "Boondi" is an Aboriginal word meaning water breaking over rocks or noise of water breaking over rocks, a great surfer’s paradise,
and then toured the Opera House.
What a
beautiful building, inside and out.
Little did we know that his is actually 2 buildings, one housing the
concert hall; the other the opera house.
There is a basement which houses 2 more theaters, restaurants and
outdoor spaces. All in all, a wonderful center.
A little
history:
An explanation on how they finally resolved the problem with the shape of the roofs
Sydney was Australia’s 1st city, whose origin was large numbers of convicts and is now Australia’s largest city with well over 4 million residents. The city is modern, clean and vibrant filled with professionals, well dressed people who have smiles on their faces A highlight of our visit for us was a visit to the contemporary art museum which is only one block away from the dock.
There we were greeted by 2 large paintings by Peter Booth, as Australian artist that I met in New York in the early 1980’s, became very friendly with him and purchased 6 of his paintings. He is an interesting person who suffers from temporal lobe epilepsy and often paints the aura that precede a seizure, usually a fantasy of some sort. He looks just like Truman Capote. Sydney of course, is a city that we both would enjoy visiting again.
An explanation on how they finally resolved the problem with the shape of the roofs
It was built after a large controversy. The cost overruns were enormous and the difficulty
building the roof was serious. Thing
became quite tense between the architect and the city and he resigned and never
again visited Sydney. He returned to
Denmark. Today, his son is supervising
some revisions to the buildings. The
evening of our departure, Carmen was performed but the boat left too early for
us to be able to go.
Sydney was Australia’s 1st city, whose origin was large numbers of convicts and is now Australia’s largest city with well over 4 million residents. The city is modern, clean and vibrant filled with professionals, well dressed people who have smiles on their faces A highlight of our visit for us was a visit to the contemporary art museum which is only one block away from the dock.
There we were greeted by 2 large paintings by Peter Booth, as Australian artist that I met in New York in the early 1980’s, became very friendly with him and purchased 6 of his paintings. He is an interesting person who suffers from temporal lobe epilepsy and often paints the aura that precede a seizure, usually a fantasy of some sort. He looks just like Truman Capote. Sydney of course, is a city that we both would enjoy visiting again.
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