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September 23, 2001
Being a Bainee the Aussie way. Playing Cricket
at Bain Cricket Day, overlooking Sydney Harbour and being professionally
catered
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September 22th, 2001
Bather's Pavilion in Balmoral, one of my
favourite dining places
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dito
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September 11th, 2001 (05:50AM)
The sun rises over Manly Beach (as seen from
my breakfast table). N.B. At this time it was still mid-day of September
10th in New York and nobody could imagine what would happen less than a day
later.
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05:51AM
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05:59AM
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August 5, 2001 (i.e. the middle of winter)
Manly Beach in Winter.
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Before and after August 5th we had day and days
with cloudless skies and temperatures around 20 Centigrade (~70 degrees
Fahrenheit). People (and not only the crazy ones) were swimming the whole
winter.
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June 3, 2001
Blue Mountains close to Wentworth Falls
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I did the "National Pass" trail which
went all along a small step in the rock wall. As there are layers of stones
with different hardness, some layers erode later which caused this step.
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Most of the trail was actually under over-hanging
rock, as most layers above were of weaker stone.
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May 27th, 2001
Watson's Bay on the South Side of the Harbour
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Doyle's Restaurant in Watson's Bay. A restaurant
famous for its location
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April 1st, 2001
West Head (opposite Palm Beach) at the north
end of the northern Beaches or precisely in Ku-rin-gai Chase National Park.
This picture overlooks Broken Bay where I had been sailing as well.
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View towards Barrenjoey Lighthouse (Palm Beach)
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Overlooking Pittwater (big inlet)
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Friends who were up here with me: Amy and Viveka
(a transfer from the Stockholm office) with husband Magnus. Magnus spent the
whole three months while Viveka was working with playing Beach Volleyball at
Manly Beach (sometimes with Australian Olympians).
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March 4th, 2001
Formula one Grand Prix Melbourne (I just flew
down for the day)
That's the best shot I could get. The cars
were passing so fast that it was almost impossible to catch them on
celluloid (or rather silicon).
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It was quite an experience. The first time I saw
a Formula One car live in action was in a pre-race which was actually a
handicap race between a BMW 3 Series normal street car, a Holden V8 racing
car and a BMW Williams. The Holden V8 was significantly faster than the BMW
3 Series. However, the BMW Williams was out of this world. One suddenly
could hear already from far some out of this world screaming (comparable to
the approaching T-Rex in Jurassic Park) followed by a brief white-ish shadow
passing in front of me.
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Crashed cars
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Sydney Sunday morning, December
3rd 2000
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December 3rd, 2000
Start area of "Cycle
Sydney" an annual event, where several thousand bikers tour 50 km
from North Sydney across the Harbour Bridge to Paramatta.
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Bikers crossing the Harbour
Bridge
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Christmas shopping at 26 degrees
centigrade at Warringah Mall, the largest shopping mall of the southern
hemisphere (a 7 minute bike ride from where I live)
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Manly Beach on December 3rd,
2000. The Australians are excited: "Oh, it feels much more like
Christmas now that it gets warmer". Remark Markus: As if it ever had
been cold! It's usually 16 - 20 degrees centigrade also during winter.
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Lightning storm over the Pacific,
as seen from my apartment. Thunderstorms here have an awfully tropical
strength. In this particular one the lightning went on for more than two
hours with lightning hits every 15 seconds. The next day there was a storm
where
the Rail Authority counted 2,000 hits into its system within an hour.
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November 25th/26th, 2000
Bain Surf Weekend close to Kiama
(2 hours south of Sydney)
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Shoalshead Beach close to Kiama
where we went surfing.
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At the North Coast (i.e. north of
Sydney) in Terrigal with my two work colleagues (locally called "work
mates") Peter (from L.A.) and Holger (temporary transfer from Munich)
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Believe it or not, this is
Copacabana Beach (at the North Coast of Sydney)
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