Sydney NYE

Sydney czeka na nadejcie Nowego Roku. Tysiące mieszkancow i turysci zgromadzili sie nad zatoką Port Jackson po obu stronach Harbour Bridge aby zobaczyc pokaz sztucznych ogni. O 21.00 odbyl sie rodzinny pokaz. Nie wszyscy dotrwają do pólnocy...

Bondi Beach Summer Story

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Bondi Beach / Bondi Bay

Ostatnia niedziela roku 2008 na plaży i w morzu.

Christmas on the beach. Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach is a most popular beach and the name of the surrounding suburb in Sydney. Bondi Beach is located 7 kilometres east of the Sydney CBD.

"Bondi" or "Boondi" is an Aboriginal word meaning water breaking over rocks or noise of water breaking over rocks.

Bondi Beach was a working class suburb throughout most of the twentieth century. Following World War II, Bondi Beach and the Eastern Suburbs became home for Jewish migrants from Poland, Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany, while a steady stream of Jewish immigration continues into the 21st century mainly from South Africa, Russia and Israel.

Bondi Beach is about one kilometre long and has receives many visitors throughout the year. Surf Life Saving Australia has given different hazard ratings to Bondi Beach in 2004. While the northern end has been rated a gentle 4 (with 10 as the most hazardous), the southern side is rated as a 7 due to a famous rip current known as the "Backpackers' Express" because of its proximity to the bus stop, and the unwillingness of tourists to walk the length of the beach to safer swimming. The south end of the beach is generally reserved for surfboard riding. Yellow and red flags define safe swimming areas, and you are advised to swim between them.
from Wikipedia

Pure Evil Christmas in Sydney

Urban artist Pure Evil brings a cuddly apocalypse to Sydney.
From spray painting fanged vampire bunnies on the streets of London to creating canvases and prints inspired by “the wreckage of utopian dreams”, Pure Evil has garnered a strong following amongst urban art lovers around the world. In his first Australian show, Pure Evil has created both original works and exclusive limited edition prints.

A Pure Evil Christmas last day today at Urban Uprising Art Gallery, Surry Hills.

Pure Evil's print shown before Christmas at Boutwell Draper Gallery, Redfern.

Christmas on the beach. Coogee

Churches of Sydney

Mary Immaculate Church at Waverley in NSW is the mother-church in Australia of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor. It also fulfils the function of parish church in the Catholic parish of Saint Charles Borromeo in the archdiocese of Sydney. It is the fourth physical building to serve as the Catholic pastoral centre of Waverley.

In style Mary Immaculate church is a Romanesque Renaissance single-naved basilica with east and west transepts. Very early in the history of the Franciscan Order this became in Europe a traditional architecture for its churches because of its direct sight lines to both altar and pulpit.
At Mary Immaculate's 1913 opening it was still without its designed facade of twin towers, narthex and pillared portico, all of which were added in 1929-1930. Internally the church's most striking feature is the seven great paintings depicting the Franciscan Crown (or Rosary) of the Seven Joys of Our Lady Mary. These, the work of Italian artist and art Professor Cesare Vagarini, fill the three arched bays of the nave and the blind rear wall of the sanctuary. Mary Immaculate possesses a particularly fine organ installed in 1979 to commemorate the centenary of the Franciscan Friars in Waverley.
from the Parish web side

Waverley is an eastern suburb of Sydney located 7 kilometres from central business district.

The Coogee Carols

Smak australijskiego Bożego Narodzenia najlepiej poznawac na Coogee - poludniowo-wschodniej nadmorskiej dzielnicy Sydney. W tę niedzielę w piknikowej atmosferze odbyl sie tam w parku Goldstein Reserve tuż przy jednej z najbardziej znanych sydnejskich plaży koncert kolęd. Jak mówia Australijczycy nie potrzeba butów aby wziąc udzial w tej imprezie.











Po ulicach Coogee jeździl samochod przypominajacy o czym jest Christmas.

Carols in the Domain

Tradycyjnie co roku w sobotę poprzedzającą Boże Narodzenie w parku The Domain między Macquarie St a Art Gallery of NSW odbyl się radosny koncert kolęd w wykonaniu polaczonych chórów, gwiazd opery i ludzi showbusinessu. W tym roku wystąpili Guy Sebastian, Shannon Noll, Delta Goodrem, Justine Clarke and Melinda Schneider. Z operowych gwiazd David Hobson i Amelia Farrugia. Dziesiątki tysięcy sydnejczyków przybylo z calymi rodzinami w ten sobotni wieczór na the Domain aby razem celebrowac i dzielic ducha nadchodzących Swiąt. Caly koncert transmitowany byl jak zwykle przez telewizję.