Just across the Sydney Harbor Bridge is a large area called Sydney North. You can drive across the bridge or take the tunnel under the harbor if you have a car. I decided to walk across the bridge; the east side of the bridge has a protected walkway for walkers and joggers and the west…
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Hi, I’m the Easter Bilby. Douglas and Lisa just got back from Port Douglas, Queensland and I thought, as the official Easter Bilby, that I’d let you know that the mates made it back fine and dandy. Why not an Easter Rabbit, you ask? Well, rabbits breed, er like rabbits, so they are not endangered. …
View MoreYes, the Sydney airport had a nasty Bikie event yesterday where 20 or so guys had a roving battle in the airport that left on person dead. In Australia, bikers are called Bikies. There are the usual clubs that you have in the USA, the Hell’s Angles, the Comancheros, etc. Much of Sydney and most…
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Lisa picked up Alexandra and Eric at the airport. I stayed at home since there was no way that 4 adults and a bunch of luggage were going to fit in Lisa’s Cooper Mini – S. After they got in okay, we did a little site seeing and then headed over to A Taste of…
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On Saturday March 14th, the day before Lisa’s daughter Alexandra and her Husband Eric arrived in Sydney, Lisa and I went to Sound Relief concert. It was a benefit concert to raise money for the Red Cross support of the Victorian Bushfire Appeal and was held at the Sydney Cricket Grounds in Moore Park. It…
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My blog, like a lot of things, is somewhat out of order from a chronological perspective. But this I do know, before getting downed by food poisoning mentioned in the preceding post, Alexandra, Eric and I went on a walking tour of the Rocks. Our tour guide was Dee and she was a wealth of…
View MoreI’m sure you must too. As part of our every day lives, we forage out for food that we did not have much to do with in the way of production. At those times we are at the mercy of someone else providing this food. On Tuesday afternoon, I made a fatal mistake, nearly fatal. …
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In the States, we give a lot of lip service to conservation and being green, but from my observations of Sydney, they take it a lot more serious. For example, travelling at peak times across the Sydney Harbor bridge costs a higher toll than crossing at non-peak. Another example, using electricity at peak times during…
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Front Paddies Market, we stroll to Darling Harbor. Officially, I don’t think Darling Harbor really starts until you are on the left side of the bridge (see map below), but the whole neighborhood is commonly referred to as Darling harbor. Windows Live Writer really rocks. If you are blogging without it, you might as well…
View MoreThis one appeared on Monday the 17th parked at the pier next to ours. I’m not sure what class of ship it is, but I’m going to call it a Clipper. After all, I have seen the film Master and Commander 1.77 times. I think Lisa and I could be quite comfortable aboard such a…
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Sydney being a large city has its challenges with parking. Usually the fee for parking on the street is 2 or 4P. I see lots of motorcycles and scooters parked, but I don’t see that many people driving them, so I guess that people in the suburbs surrounding the Sydney CBD drive them in, park…
View MoreFor the kind readers in the States, that would be Wednesday. I know Lisa and I must have some upscale neighbors from the looks of some of the cars in our underground parking area: View Full Album I personally dig the Cadillac and the Lamborghini the most. Of course there are a bunch of Hondas,…
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Being a parent when you are visiting Thailand on vacation is tough work! Bucket drinks…full Moon parties…beautiful beaches…crazy Aussie’s at the bar…. Douglas and I took my 3 kids, my future son-in-law Eric and my godchild, ‘Baby Sean’ to Thailand for 7 days in the summer of 2005. I have lots of fond memories of…
View MoreSome pics from our Trip to Spain in 2003. Madrid and Barcelona ‘Las Fallas’ Festival in Valencia
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