Antwerp by night

Antwerp is just as pretty at night as during the day. The city has installed lights that highlight the statuettes on the gables of the old houses.

Moon rising over Antwerp

Last weekend the weather was balmy and the street cafes were full of people taking advantage of the unaccustomedly warm summer evenings. The inner city is car free so there is plenty of room for cafés to expand their seating and no car fumes for customers to deal with.

When I am in Europe I always wonder when Australia will finally bite the bullet and create car free zones in its cities and towns. They are long overdue.

New Zealand flag on the
top left of city hall. 

Town Square

The Cathedral is dramatic at night

Sydney by NIght

Sydney Opera House (left) and Harbour Bridge at midnight

Yesterday was very windy but by midnight when the host of a Christmas party I attended took his guests onto the rooftop of his apartment building to look at the view the wind had died down. The evening was balmy, the view spectacular and we remaining guests lounged along the railing watching the lights of a huge ocean liner as it moved along the harbour.

Sydney by night.

Sydney Opera House

This is where I have been for the past three days - and late into the night. The Sydney Opera House is a wonderful place to work, especially when you come out at night to a view like this.

The photos were taken on my Android mobile phone. It is amazing what sort of quality these small devices can produce but you have to  keep still or you just get lots of lines of lights.

Photographs of city lights usually make me feel a bit lonesome because that is how I view skyscraper cities but I know and love Sydney  so when I look at the photo below I get conflicting  messages. Weird.

Sydney at night .... view from the opera house