Sunday 25 October 2009: Breakfast on the Bridge.....

Today was the day for Breakfast on the Bridge, which was part of the Crave food festival that is on in Sydney during October, the bridge was closed to traffic for 12 hours & people had from 6:30 to 8:30 this morning to have a picnic on the Harbour Bridge!!

So the alarm went off this morning at 5am......it wasn't as difficult as expected to get up after all....don't let that fool you into thinking it will be a regular thing!!

Grabbed a taxi & headed into the city, picking up some friends on the way. The weather was dry but cloudy....so better than was forecast.

It all went very smoothly....considering it was the first time they had held it.....it was a very surreal experience.

They had covered the majority of the road surface with real grass....there were pens with cows, a couple of bands playing, huge loud speakers playing bird songs....it was very strange indeed!!! Sitting having a picnic breakfast with champagne & strawberries & lots of other goodies....whilst the train passes just off to the side & the opera house & city are just visible in the other direction.

It was so much fun....we were very lucky to get tickets, it was a lottery for the tickets ....190,000 people applied for just 6,000 tickets....hopefully they do it again next year!!! A big thanks to Chris & Maja for taking us !!!

Oh yeah & our group was interviewed by one of the news channels & apparently we made the news!!! Have to check again on tonights broadcast.....if we are awake!!!

Unfortunately the light wasn't great for photographs....it did stay dry though....after breakfast Andrea & I walked home ( about 10 km's).....it hasn't stopped raining since we got back....really heavy rain & thunder & lightning.....so glad it wasn't like that a few hours ago....very lucky !!!
As per usual......here are the extra shots from today !!!

NIKON D80 : f/5.6 : 1/125" : 18mm : ISO 100

Comments

1. What a wonderful event! Looks marvellous...
   
   Great shot, good to hear it all went well.

   ~ Chrisimply

2. that sounds amazing.. how fun to be a part of that!!

   ~ occhiverdi

3. That looks very cool! Did they do a lottery for tickets? Lucky it didn't rain on your champagne brekkie...

   ~ Chook

4. How brilliant!!
   what a fantastic way to have breakfast
   great Blip

   ~ wonderfullife

5. Sounds so fun! Looks like a few others are getting their blip of the day too.

   ~ lisameow

6. This is a fabulous angle. I like it a lot. Champagne breakfast sound wonderful and actually so does the walk home. You really lucked-out not to get rained on. I am curious as to what the 6,000 had to do to get their tickets and what was being celebrated. Thanks for sharing it with us. Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka

   ~ Carol

7. You were very lucky getting there!
   Special to have breakfast in this way.
   Nice view, all happy people as far as I can see.

   ~ powerplanter

8. That must be one of the best breakfasts anybody could ever have! Very good shot of it too. I love the idea of real grass and cows.

   ~ hrubieszowianka

9. This is such a great idea for an event! What fun and awesome photo!

   ~ writersblock

10. WOW!

    ~ teegone

11. GREAT picture
    looks so much fun!

    ~ serendipity

12. People come up with the most peculiar things to do for amusement! It looks like lots of fun!

    ~ patewu

13. Breathtaking! Seems like a real event!

    ~ maxicute

14. Cracker shot! Marvelous that you got tickets. We saw this on our TV news this evening.

    ~ cabbagetree

15. Fantastic picture! So interesting to see things like this happening on the other side of the world! It sounds like it was really special.

    ~ andpieces

16. Read about this on the news - how fab to see it on blip!

    ~ marypot70

17. What a cool thing for the city to do! Looks like a great morning for it - glad you missed the downpours. The shots are all great.

    ~ SooB

18. super shot and angle ,

    ~ sunflower

19. Amazing perspective here sir, and delighted the weather was nice enough for your refugee eat-out on the bridge. You were on the BBC News (along with everyone else)

    ~ Scobes

20. Great picture! I red about it in the news over here in The Netherlands! Nice to see a picture of this event on Blip!!

    ~ hh

21. fantastic shot! looks like a fun event. love how so many others in this photo are taking photos themselves :)

    ~ distractedhausfrau

22. What a great shot!

    ~ Red

23. fantastic image..and event, lucky you!
    great photo's on picasa too..love it.

    ~ Orchid

24. Great capture of the event. You can feel the bizz, and so colourful.

    ~ Gillipaw

25. Excellent. Interest all the way through this image.

    ~ gblrps

26. Brilliant shot and event.

    ~ brainfreeze

27. Amazing blip and event.

    ~ sheilaM

28. Fantastic picture. Couldn't have done that here today - would have been blown off the bridge and your sandwiches would have been soggy in the rain!!

    ~ Mags

29. Ace! I read about this on the BBC earlier. Good stuff!

    ~ Fi

30. I love the perspective and, what a marvellous event.

    ~ clickychick

31. Heard about this on the news - fab photo of it.

    ~ bri

32. Saw that on the news today, didn't realise they grassed the bridge - crazy!
    
    What great fun, and I love the pic too ;-)
    

    ~ pixelsmiths

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