Hello and Goodbye Melbourne

Melbourne is named after an english lord Melbourne .
Sydney is named after guess who - right - lord Sydney.

                                                       Formation-sailing with Celebrety Line

                                                         Giant-Slalom again                             
                                                    

                                                                   
                                                                       Melbourne

                                                                

                                         
                                                          !914 - 1918  Shrine

                                                 4000 Service Medals

                    
                                                    Victims of First World War - Galipoli
    

                                           Eternal flame for Australien soldiers killed in war
           

                                                  Etihad  - The Arabs are buying everything

                                   Australien Millennium Wheel - it does not work - maybe in the future
                      

Parliament  for Victoria State

                                                      Horse-carriage in the middle of the city

                                                                       Idyll

                                                            Captain Cook's Cottage

Captain Cook's  Pine

                                               Tree protected against Possoms

                                                                     New building

                                                                  Old building

                        Federation Square - Jan Potter Centre - National gallery  of Victoria

                                          Flinders Station - Popular to meet below the clock

                                                                    Saint Paul's Cathedral

                                                          Diana with her dogs

                                                                         

Hello and Goodbye Sydney with the wonderful family Jennifer and Tony Crittenden

To get into the harbour of Sydney is a question of timing and permission from the authorities.We got the “slot” time to enter the harbour in the dark at 6 am, but what a docking position we were assigned, just opposite the Sydney Opera House – First row to the show.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is called “the big hanger” and it really looks like a big hanger.

Just to prove I was there

Here the English Governess Mrs MacQuaris were sitting longing for England .Today the place has got her name.

If ever you meet a warship with a little red kangaroo on the side on the seven seas, it is Australian.

QVB – Queen Victoria Building – a little like Harrods in London – was condemned to demolishion, but the local people protested and today it is renovated beautifully.

The Sydney Opera House has now given Jørn Utzon  his “own” room – reconciliation before his death. Likewise he was allowed to complete the opera houses interior decoration.

Two good friends from Sydney  Jennifer and Tony Crittenden, the parents of Sophie Dayton in Newcastle, visited me onboard the beautiful Crystal Serenity, and we spent a wonderful afternoon onboard the ship.

That “little” ship is Crystal Serenity.

People on  top of the bridge

On our way out of  Sydney Harbour.

We were fotomodels on our way out - the helicopter had got permission of the Master

Well that was Syney with its Opera House