Last day in Sydney and what would a visit to Sydney be without hiting the Bondi Beach. Beach was of course full of people.
Mostly teenagers with the strangest fashion style ever seen. Not worth going into details. What we did was swam a bit
and then played a couple of sets with Kiraly (Plesko knows who i'm talking 'bout). Old school volleyball but we still
lost in the tie breaker....ah what can you do.
At this stage i'll dare to make a comparisson between Sydney and Melbourne,
even though that is considered a herecy in certain areas (namely in Sydney and Melbourne :) )
Sydney is bigger in every way and it shows. More people,more traffic,more shops more everything....now if big is your
thing Sydney would be better. But if you prefer more relaxed and easygoing enviroment Melbourne might suit you better.
At the time of our visit to Sydney Australia's Test team was just playing West Indies,of course i'm talking 'bout cricket.
Now Australians are a sporty nation,more then most others,that's for sure. They have everything from Rugby,Footy,Basket,Netball,Soccer,..
You name the sport,they've got it. But Cricket is NOT a sport....it is a religion. I'll give you examples.
Some 20 years ago when pay-per-view came to Australia the national government instantly put up laws to protect Cricket.
That means that when a Test match is played all free TV stations are offered the rights to broadcast first
and then and only then it is offered to pay-per-view stations. If in the city where the match is being played the
stadium is NOT sold out,they do not broadcast the game,which is a way to encourage people to come to the game and watch it live.
Ok enough about that....let me just offer you some pictures of Sydney by night,taken from some 260m Sydney Tower.


Zadnji dan v Sydney-u in kaj bi bil obisk Sydneya brez skoka na Bondi Beach (izgovorjeno bondaj). Plaža je bila seveda polna ljudi
večinoma najstnikov,ki predstavljao najbolj čudno modo kar sem jih kdaj videl,ne bom šl v podrobnosti. Po nekaj poizkusih
plavanja med valovi sva raje odigrala nekaj setov s Kiralyjem (Pleško ve o kom govorim) in čeprav je to stara šola odbojke
sva vseeno izgubila v tie breaku-u...ah ja...kaj češ.
Drznil si bom narediti primerjavo med Melbourne in Sydneyem
čprav je to v nekaterih delih Avstralije bogoskrunstvo :). Sydney je VELIK v vseh pogledih, več ljudi,prometa,trgovin,...vsega..
in če je VEČJE tisto kar vam bolj ustreza je Sydney boljša izbira,če pa ste po drugi strani pristaš umirjenega in sproščenega
okolja bi vam Melbourne verjetno bolj ustrezal. V času najinega obiska Sydneya je Avstralska reprezentanca ravno imela 5 dnevni
dvoboj z "West Indies" (nimamo tega izraza). Govorim seveda o kriketu. Avstralci so v vseh pogledih športni narod,precej bolj
kot večina ostalih, poznajo in igrajo vse nam poznane športe in še kar nekaj "svojih" kot je recimo rugby in footy.
Ampak Kriket NI šport. Kriket je religija. Naj navedem primer. Ko so se pred kake 20 leti v Avstraliji pojavile
prve pay-per-view (plačljive) televizije je nacionalna vlada po hitrem postopku sprejela zakon ki "ščiti" kriket
in to na način da so pravice prenosa najprej ponujene vsem brezplačnim TV postajam in v primeru njihovega nezanimanja
dobijo priložnost plačljive,to se seveda NIKOLI ne zgodi. Hkrati poskrbijo,da se v primeru nerazprodanosti stadiona, v mestu kjer se tekma
igra, le-ta ne prenaša po TV in se s tem vzpodbudi ljudi,da si tekmo ogledajo v živo. Ok dovolj o tem...naj vam na koncu ponudim
še nekaj nočnih slik Sydney-a narejenih s kakih 260m visokega Sydney Tower-ja.