good to be back

weekend in the blue mountains

two random images

taronga zoo

winter in Sydney

road trip to broken hill and mungo national park

. lucknow, 250km west of Sydney .



. nevertire, 526km west of Sydney .




. dining room in the Great Western Hotel in Cobar, 700 km west of Sydney .



. on the main street in Cobar .



. Great Western Motel, Cobar .



. road kill .



. bonnie & holly are the best and cobar is shit .



. emmdale roadhouse, 864 km west of sydney .




. little topar roadhouse, 1053 km west of Sydney .




. sculpture symposium in the living desert, broken hill, 1157km west of sydney .



. mundi mundi lookout, on the road from broken hill, 5km outside of silverton .




. silverton, tourist trap .





. unsealed road between menindee and pooncarrie, south of broken hill, on the way to mildurra .












. mungo national park .



. first "sign of life" after the national park .



. murrumbidgee river in hay, 526km south of broken hill, 725km west of sydney .

the blue mountains

royal national park, wattamolla beach

between bondi and bronte at night

weekend down the south coast

evening light

sydney harbour by night

bourke & chelsea street by night

paddington to bondi junction

i need to get better flip-flops cos my feet are killing me...

bondi beach at night

during the day it feels too much like a beefed up version of
blankenberge but at night it magically transforms itself...

walking around the city

walking around the city

bronte beach

afternoon at bronte beach

sydney harbor & botanical gardens

Sydney harbor and a view to the business district and the bridge with the opera house.
it looks cloudy and stormy but was actually super sunny and beautiful. what a relief from european winter...




the botanical gardens...



... took this pic for jan ... one of many weird animals i'm seeing here ... there's a bird that sounds like the baby in Eraserhead as well ... wasn't able to take a pic yet though ...




i thought i had stumbled on a scene from the Birds until Amber told me these are bats and there were as many as these in every tree i saw in a 360 degree radius! from where i was standing their bodies looked as a big as a standard european house cat. made me wonder how wide their wingspan is... apparantly they all fly together to another park every day around dusk... will try to get a pic of that ...



the necks in concert.... jet lag was making it very hard for me to stay awake ... but it was a nice concert anyhow ...

the swedes are everywhere

... took this pic for jefta ...
this shop is right next door to Sydney's first Pain Cotidien, but i didn't take a picture of that as it felt too weird to have such a typical Brussels thing in a place so far away from Brussels... was tempted to go in and buy one of my favorite lemon tartlets but didn't ... amber showed me a local bakery instead where we had a pork and fennel roll that was simply delicious

abu dhabi airport

... at the airport in abu dhabi, after 9 hours of flying and before flying another 14...

i hadn't slept at all and was feeling the first signs of a heavy jet lag setting in...