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Rooftop pool at the Pullman hotel Sydney

Next morning after our Helium binge, before checking out we take a dip in the rooftop pool on this awesome autumn day. and I love the view, to the right you can see the opening to the ocean of the harbour and Sydney City and Hyde park to the left, great location





so many smiley faces, not because fashion week is over, or that we are in a rooftop pool...no , because we are about to board a plane and go on hoilday !! mother and son checking out the view

pool reflections in the glass

After the party there is always the fun back at the hotel room

 

Love me a council clean up

O our way to check out these home extensions, I saw 4 big wooden ladders being thrown out, including a straight one with wooden rungs I been looking for to hang from the kitchen ceilinso we can hang our pots and pans of it with some butcher's hooks. But these big A frame ladders are a score I feel. So happy with my find, imagine if they made it to the garbage truck and were destroyed. SO we set these up in the garden and had some fun

sharing is caring. Time for a drink as we wait for the sun to go down and do some photos with the fairy lights





some gif fun

nearly the whole family

aah, but we have the timer on the camera there we are, cat and all more gif fun fairy light time Jacqui visibly impressed with my long exposures hehehe

Food Food Food

Kip met Gentse waterzooi, yummy home cooked meal at Lillians straight form the aiport next day after shopping for present for the kids, I have lunch at Den Beer, and all of a sudden a heavy snow storm that lasted for all of 10 min, could not see out the window for the snow but then 5 min later it all cleared up to beautiful blue sky day the Square at Mechelen, just after the snow and all the stalls have packed up and left yummy carrot & Pumpkin soup at RA store Antwerp

Romme Alpin Day Trip - Såler

So after pisting down Romme Alpin I stop of at one of the towns on the side of the road, and this is Såler about 20min form Romme couldn't be more different than Avalon :-) I thas a lovely charm to it I find And what is it with that brown colour, you see it everywhere, any swedes, feel free to fill me in here, why all the same colour ? the garages at the end of the road Cute, I can just imagine it in summer, green gras and probably 2 apple trees with bright red apples Wonder if that's the husbans shack at the back of the house, has a chimney, so there is fire, so a lot of time spent in there :-)


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how nice is this place loving the details would love to have a coffee in here and check out the place, bet you it would be full of wonderful details, character

here's a scary pic of me earlier ( so was not going to put this at the top of the post :-)
This is when I had been ski-ing for about 2 hours, I was so cold, I had to rent some ski boots ( not the best ones ) and I could not feel my toes at this stage, and my beard, hahaha, my beard, when I went inside a restaurant to warm my feet up, my beard had big cluster of ice balls stuck in there, so funny, reminds me of this shot from a few years ago in Austria and the comment Bryan Boy wrote, lol driving back to Stockholm now.
Wanted to shot you all the snow, and how it is still in all the trees, as it is so cold, it's just frozen to the trees, the leaves, the branches the trunks

wishing I had a bath to jump into when I get back to hotel, it's going to have to be a long shower instead.



( or coming home to one of those cute wooden homes, with a home cooked Jacqui meal and one of those claw foot baths set up in front of open fire, nice, next time :-)

 

Quick Dinner ( late lunch ) with Olof

I'm such a bad friend today, my Swedish friend, Olof, from Scandinavian Press Room, yesterday organised for me to go with him and his partner on a boat cruise to go and see some of the archipelago, boat leaves at 12, no problem I told him, all I have to do is pick up hire car before as they close at 1pm, so will get it at 11 and be ready at hotel at 11:30. Fast forward to next day 11:10 when I'm busy getting an edit of photos ready for MFF when I see the time, major freak out, so call Olof, race out the door to walk to central and ge the car, needles to say, even though Olof managed to get the captani to hold the boat for 5 min, I was 2 mintutes too late, damn, and turns out there was a really good lunch on board as well.
Anyway we meet up after for a drink, late lunch, dinner for me, as I ended up running around trying to find a battery for my transmitter and a cable. And I still need to take some shots of the exhibition, here's the shot of Zuzanna wearing Dolce, at the elevators , love the colours opening photo in the restaurant it's a bit crazy busy in here, totally booked out and I'm not getting the right angle with the reflections of the red lights, ok, so will do it in the morning instead when the main lights are not set on moody :-) Berns hotel, does not look like much from here, but so centraly located and so so nice inside better view and right across the parl/road, Olof shows me this palace,story is , some lady built it years ago ( I'd say more 150 ) and started collecting things, clothes, furniture etc... so it;s like an antique museum now, left the way she left it all these years ago, but we are not going to check it out now ( and strange I never saw this before and it is just across the road ) Olof takes me to Cafe Riche, and he knows everyone here, so even though it is busy we get a table and I have traditional Swedish meatballs ( yes Jacqui, way better than those ones we had in Sydney last time :-) Then after dinner back to my hotel, it's only just after 6 pm, but I'm off to bed, getting up super early tomorrow.

 

First week 2013 in Avalon

at my favourite pizza joint with my favourite smiling girl nothing beats a fire on the beach on sunset roasting marshmellows Evan and his mate Jack Jacqui caught her first ever spider

Sweltering Warm Sydney Day

day for the record books apparently, super hot day today, I was loving it, I think we clocked in about 5 swims today. And with those 40 plus degree days, usually come night time, that heat does not go away, and inside the house is still warm, too warm for the kids to get to sleep, so what to do . Head back to the beach and have a night swim in the rock pool of course lights still on at the pool at Palm Beach time to cool down before bed time ( well, already after bed time actually :-) night time pool family portrait :-)

Jac's has more than one leg . I wonder if this means those pool lights flicker ?


India poor Belle with her arm in a cast with a possible fracture but still manages too smile ( trooper :-) time for bed, head back to warm home and leave the cool pool

Drinks on the beach at Sunset

love this spot at North Av, looking out across the beach close to sunset, time for a drink warm day, small surf, bubbly time

So I got JAcqui this double "festival" chair, so we can both sit in it, lke a little lounge, so we set up camp...and drank :-)

bored local lads ( because of lack of swell ) empty glass, time to head home and get another bottle of bubbly out of the fridge

Lifelong friends of mine ( I hope )

Love this shot JAcqui snapped of me with my friends. They say Cockatoes can live up to 80 years, are intelligent, active, noisy and love attention So I have been giving them a lot of attention, and am rewarded by being able to get up close to them while I feed them ( Love how our pet cat, Elsa, has gotten used to the birds as well, and is just casually preening herself in the background )


Rainbow lorrikeets join in on the free feed on some days there will be three times a smany birds, and they follow me around the garden, love it
bananas looking good this year
ditto all the frangipani trees in the garden love the shape of the leaves, especially the new ones