SYDNEY

I visited Sydney in the beginning of December and so many things have happened since I left Australia that I've just now been able to write this post. But better now then never.

Sydney is beautiful, just amazing. A city where old and new are complementary where traditions of the past meet the future. People feel free to walk around dressed in shiney broadway dresses or to just lie down in one of the many parks, drink a beer in the middle of a working day with friends or work hard.... It is an ordered mixture of everything and you can smell that freedom everywhere. It is often ranked as one of the most beautiful cities in the world and I can easily understand why.

sitting in front of city hall

the city tower

Sydney is surrounded by beaches (the water was not really warm) and you can surf every day of the year and even on your lunch break :-). Still, freedom is strictly regulated and there is an alcohol ban in all outside public areas. What I love about that ban sign below is the martini glass - I can imagine my friends and I drinking from martini glasses on the beach  wearing a Santa hat ;-). If you look well you'll see the martini glass in the water with the guy drowning.

Downtown Sydney is quite big but pedestrian friendly. Everything is well connected with the metro and the train and if you want you can go to Circular Quay, and after having a coctail at the fancy bar by the Opera house, you can take a ferry

and, of course, I did :-)

Sydney has some very beautiful and very pleasant neighborhoods, not far from the busy downtown like this old residential area close to Oxford street


and the condos by King's cross

It shows its modernity, elegance and importance...

without forgetting about tradition

and old and new seem to peacefully cohesist in a beautiful mixture.