Up the coast
Final, final, final bookings are being made on this trip. I only have to book a place in Canberra and that! is! it! I decided to leave Melbourne on Saturday 14th, exactly one month after arriving, and take four days to drive up the coast to Sydney. I was tempted to cancel it and stay […] Read More
Aussie spending
Aussie money is colorful, by the way. And made out of plastic, with a see-through security window. I liked the feel of it. It’s pretty nice to handle. You have to get used to the coins though, some comedian had the brilliant idea to make them smaller the bigger the value… Australia has been expensive. […] Read More
Beach walk
I expected my last day in Sydney to be sunny… but it wasn’t meant to be. It was cloudy, and by the time the bus dropped me off at Coogee Beach, it started to rain…. Desperation! I walked a bit along the beach, then sat a bit under cover in one of the park huts, […] Read More
Sydney harbor
Just a few pics from the Harbor Bridge and the CBD, day and night. It’s a great sight. Rajiv and I had a little snack and some wine after the opera tour. We finally enjoyed some blue sky view onto the harbor. Changes everything. The bridge is the other Sydney landmark, opposite the Opera. Construction […] Read More
Icon
Finally, I ticked it off my list. The ultimate tourist attraction in Sydney: its Opera. It is an iconic building. One of the few that instantly identifies with its city, like probably only the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, or the Golden Gate Bridge do. More so, it’s a modern building, opened in 1973, it only […] Read More
Muriel (…and then some art)
The sun is back – for a day. Still, I followed my usual routine of blogging, sorting pics and booking stuff in the morning in my corner Café, cute Forbes&Burton on the corner of, you guessed it, Forbes and Burton Streets. After that, a stroll through the parks towards the Art Gallery of New South […] Read More
Endless rain
It rained cats and dogs on Sunday. I’ll remember Sydney as the rainy city. So I spend the morning in a café, checking flights, itineraries etc. for New Zealand. In the afternoon I went to see a movie – again. The Hobbit (Part 2). Maybe in a sense to prepare for New Zealand’s South Island. Maybe […] Read More
Sydney Harbor Cruise
I met up with my friend Angus on Saturday afternoon, he got me onto a boat cruise through the Sydney Harbor. It had been raining all morning and it didn’t look like it would get much better, but it was a fun cruise. Together with a bunch of his friends we circled the harbor, crossed […] Read More
Small world
It must have been at least 10 years since I last saw them: Robert, with whom I went to college in Bruges, and his wife Suzanne, a fellow Madonna fan. They both are Dutch diplomats, and we stayed in touch via Facebook throughout the years, their postings to Washington D.C., various Madonna tours, and their […] Read More
Dallas Buyer Club
It’s raining cats and dogs in Sydney so I have spent a lot of time in cinemas – and more is planned. I never saw a Matthew McConaughey movie – at least none I remember. He usually plays those easy-to-forget romantic comedies, fine if nothing else is on TV, but nothing with a bit of […] Read More