More 9 p.m. fireworks

Repeated in 7 synchronised locations around the harbour

January 1st 2009
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SYDNEY! Thursday 1st January 2009 What a great place to be for New Year! The fireworks were awesome and summer has truly arrived in New South Wales; it is HOT, HOT, HOT. One and a half million people watched the fireworks last night, having spent all day getting their “spot” the all important viewing point. Obviously not everyone could get a view of the bridge (but we di ... read more

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Viv and John Cussell

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We are off island-hopping in Thailand for the month of February. We shall leave home on the 1st of the month and return on 29th (an extra day for Leap Year)! Our journey will be from Alicante to Barcelona by train, then two flights, the first from Barcelona to Doha and the second from Doha to Phuket, both with Qatar Airways. Although this will be our forth visit to the "Land of Smiles", we haven't been there for eleven years and plan to visit islands we haven't seen before. In 2009, we travelled overland from Singapore to the island of Langkawi, Northern Malaysia, in the Southern Andaman Sea. ... full info

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