brothers in arms - hermanos unidos

with freshly charged batteries due to spending time with my down-under-family, playing "footy" with my neffews and simly relaxing and feeling at home, my brother bernhard and i broke up to sidney to make it a less secure place for the following 4 days. some friends told me, that most people either loved sidney or melbourne but not both cities. i guess we are an exception, i really liked melbourne and sidney is simply amazing!!! the views are stunning, and sometimes we just couldn't believe that we actually were there!!!
we strolled around china town, darling harbor, manly beach, the circular quay, took the monorail (a train like a roller-coster about 5 meters aboth the street). of course we went to the most famouse opera house in the world and even were lucky enought to find affordable tickets for a concert of some orchester playing schubert and jaikowski. espeshially the second part of the concert was overwhelming and made us loose notion of space and time.
we concluded the evening with a glass of whine (or two, or three, ...hang on) on the terrase of the opera bar just next to the water inhaling the atmosphere of the opera house and the near by harbor bridge and the bay.
the following day we met my german friend claudia and went to the famouse bondi beach watching surfers hunting waves. in a 2 hours walk we followed the cost to coogi beach taking tons of photos of the changing landscapes and urbanisations. we ended up with two more friends of claudia's in newtown - a less known district of sidney with cheap eateries and cool bars - having good thai-food (by now i should know what i'm talking about;) and great fun together. as we went on to meet two more friends in an irish pub it just become impossible to get any sleep before the early morning.

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con las pilas recargadas, por haber estado con mi down-under-familia, jugando al "footy" con mis sobrinos y relajándome y sintiéndome en casa, mi hermano y yo partimos hacia sidney durante los próximos 4 días. me contaron algunos amigos, que o a uno le gusta sidney o le gusta melbourne pero no ambos. parece que soy una excepción, me encantó melbourne y sidney me parece alucinante!!! las vistas son increíbles y a veces no nos lo podíamos creer que nos encontramos allí realmente!!!
dimos una vuelta por china town, darling harbor, manly beach, circular quay, cogimos el monorail (un tren como una montaña rusa). por supuesto fuimos a ver la opera mas famosa del mundo y incluso tuvimos la suerte de encontrar billetes baratos para un concierto clasico. la sinfonía de jaikowski nos hizo perder el sentido de espacio y tiempo. concluimos le tarde con un baso de vino (o dos, o tres, ...) en la terraza de la opera bar justo a lado del mar inhalando al ambiente de la opera y del puente (harbor bridge) y la peninsula.
el siguiente día quedamos con mi amiga claudia y fuimos a la playa famosa llamada bondi beach observando a los surfistas. en una caminata de 2 horas seguimos la costa hasta cogi beach sacando un montón de fotos. terminamos con dos amigos más de claudia en newtown - un barro menos conocido de sidney con restaurantes geniales y bares muy acogedores - cenando comida thailandesa y riéndonos mucho. continuamos la vuelta para encontrarnos con dos amigas austriacas en y irish pub por lo cual no llegamos a casa antes del amanecer.