Can you imagine that the only copy of the following pictures had been deleted? A mistake of mine led to this perfect scare.
The great day in Sydney, especially great on the pictures side, would be left only in my memories!
But thank god I knew a way to get pictures back even beyond the recycle bin on the computer…
So, this post is just as usual and seemingly for granted features pictures:
We got to spend a day of our journey in Sydney.
The biggest city in Australia was foreign to us both, so we parted and spend our day each the own way…
In the end I was more than satisfied, as my expectations got far more than exceeded!!
Surely the most popular sight of the city: The Opera House!
My goal: A nice cup of coffee, capturing the city for my readers, eat something nice and maybe even experiencing some culture inside the Opera House itself.
Sydney is the biggest city I have ever visited. That is why the skyscrapers made a huge impression on me. Also, some historic sites are well preserved.
The Strand Arcade is far older than 100 years and today prospers just as the founder must have dreamed of.
Bar Bellaccino. You just have to crave some cappuccino there, aye? 🙂
Hard to say whether the building look more impressive from the side or from the front…
Inside this 200 years old botanic garden I found HER!! 😀
But unfortunately, she didn’t want to talk to me. 🙁 (Maybe it was the Kiwi accent??)
The day was clouded by the prospect of rain and its foreshadowing clouds, because of which I didn’t plan on having much activity outside.
Nevertheless, I got a surprisingly fabulous sunset which I got to capture next to the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge.
My thirst for culture was to be quenched by a visit at the seasonal Opera on the Harbour. This year, ‘Turandot’ would be featured. A Chinese tale about a horrifying princess, a stubborn prince, true love and heroism.
For a first-ever opera visit, it is no bad thing to look out onto the Sydney Opera House over the water, is it? For the stage is situated on the opposite side of the harbour.
And to have the first opera of your life backed with fireworks, feeling lucky about the bargain at the remaining tickets sale and having no rain at all, against the forecast; all that made the experience whole! On the premises they served Asian food in style, so I could satisfy my culinary needs at the same time.
What else can I say?
On the way back I got to a place I had looked for a long time now: A place above the highway at night. The conditions might have been less than ideal, but look at my Headlight-Stripes-Arrangement anyway:
For a single day I have experienced very very much of Sydney!
