Sydney Harbour Bridge

On the classroom wall in my Junior School was a poster of Sydney Harbour Bridge. It didn't give me a huge desire to see it because the possibility of visiting Australia was inconceivable. The journey by boat took weeks. But it was always there, in my mind, as an exotic, far-a-way, wonder.

When visiting Sydney therefore for the first time in 2002 , I asked the taxi driver at the airport to divert and drive over the bridge. It was wonderful.

Sydney Harbour Bridge was designed and built by an English company from Middlesbrough...most of the steel having been shipped from England. It took eight years to build and was opened on March 19th 1932.

March 19th 2007 is therefore the bridges 75th anniversary. Me and Jeannette are booked to climb the bridge three days later.

Nothing is impossible.

Richard

Special Anniversary

A very special wedding Anniversary requires a very special holiday. So both of us are getting ready for a world trip to celebrate our 40th . The tour will take in South Africa, Australia,French Polynesia, and home again via New York and will be taken over 9 weeks.
Most of the arrangements have already been made ...we are now just adding the final touches. Last night Jeannette discovered that Sir Cliff Richard was performing in Cape Town while we are there, at the famous Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens....an open-air concert where you take picnic and wine and sit on the lawns with the backdrop of Table Mountain and the gardens. Well, I surprised myself and Jeannette by being able to get tickets off the web. Poor old Cliff can't have much of a following in South Africa.
I was also able to get tickets to see Il Divo at the same venue.

Richard