SATC prepping

Sequel coming 4 June!

It is Stig's farewell party

Cheers Stig

Nikki is testing garden furniture

Home :-)

Sasha & Ivar are wiser

& older, happy birthday you too!

View from "At the top" in Dubai

Visiting the worlds tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The
view from 124th floor was quite spectacular!

Monopoly

A classic & I'm ready to buy houses!

Thai dinner at Lisa & Jonas'

Yummy, thanks!

Time to head home

My work in Sydney is over for now and it is time to say goodbye to the
clock tower and head back home :-)

Issy is finally '25' years old!

... Again;) Happy birthday!

Let the stink begin!

Annual Garlic week at Cafe Sting - I had a delicious beef burger!

Sydney harbour ferry ride

I went to Manly beach right outside of Sydney yesterday - I took the ferry at sunset so I got a nice view of Sydney on the way over to Manly. Read more about Manly here: http://www.manlyaustralia.com.au/ . And here are a few photos:

Is there some logic to this

These are some of the Australian coins and as you can see; the larger the coin the less it is worth?? The problem is that the 50 cent coin is HUGE and fills up my wallet pretty fast.

Tour of the Sydney Opera House

I took a short tour of the Sydney Opera house today as I got the afternoon off :-) The Opera house was spectacular today with the crisp, blue skies in the background and it was fun to learn a bit about the history of the opera house. The inside is not as spectacular as the outside by the way. No if only Stavanger had the same visions when building the new concert house :-) The Sydney Opera house was designed by the Dane Jørn Utzon and was estimated to cost about 7 million Aussie dollars - in the end it cost more than 100 million! Talk about budget problems ;-)

Doffen!

Not just a ghost or a rumour-it's Kristoffer

A couple of pics from Sydney

Due to network problems at work today I got a bit of time to take a walk outside :-) Here are a couple of pics...I walked in the botanical garden and it is filled with flying foxes - also known as bats. They were quite noisy as they were fighting over the branches to hang on to :-) Here is a bunch hanging around in a tree



Sydney opera house of course


The local birds in the park is a bit different from back home

What ash cloud?

View from my office

Skål Gard!

From Langhe-not too far from Barolo faves;)

A little snack at the hotel in Sydney

Got a parcel today

Strawberrynet.com finds me no matter where I go ;-)

Strawberries for breakfast at the hotel

Quite a treat :-)

Asle's dream boat

I think that if Asle could build a boat it would be something like this :-) Seen at the Maritime museum in Sydney.

Sunday morning in Sydney

I have just landed and reached my hotel. Now if I can only get a
room ;-)

Wine Festival program for next week

Sorry you're missing out babe:(

Playing UNO with the family after Easter dinner :-)

Back home again

And making risotto made with stuff bought at KaDeWe in Berlin

You can get lots of good beer in Berlin

Mocca testing

Einstein kaffe has some excellent espresso, mini brownies & Americano.
Sadly, the mocca didn't live up to expectations.