Sydney

View from the apt. Finger Wharf in the foreground.

Had to attend a conference one weekend in Sydney. Gladly jumped at the chance and returned to a city I was last at 25 years ago. After a successful meeting, we moved into a friends studio apartment on Victoria St. in Potts Point very close to King's Cross. The balcony opened up to a view of the Harbour Bridge and part of the Opera House. 

And right in the forefront on the suburb of Wooloomooloo lies one of the most expensive piece of real estate in Sydney, Finger Wharf, an apartment complex on the pier where Russel Crowe lives. He supposedly bought his waterfront apartment for A$14M.

Sydney, city by the bay, hasn't changed much except for the skyline. The Harbour Bridge used to charge A$O.20c toll when I last visited now charges A$3.00. They still use the same unmanned toll collection mechanism. Just throw the coins into a large collection basket. 

More cosmopolitan now with a larger mix of Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Thais, Malaysians, Singaporeans, Indonesians. Sydney is even more chic, stylish, charming, exciting than ever before.