Thursday January 4th 2007. Sydney. NSW.

Today I spend working on the project answering e-mails and updating the blog.

Tonight though I am taking Ben to dine at The Sydney Tower the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere. There are a total of 56 cables anchoring this building with each cable weighing in at 7 tonnes and containing 235 strands of 7mm thick wire. It is said that if you put the wires end to end they would stretch from Sydney to Alice Springs.

Well we got it wrong and the venue for the meal was not the Sydney Tower, but Australia Square and The Summit restaurant. This very swanky restaurant was opened on 29th February 1968 by Sir Edmund Hillary who "climbed" The Summit and declared the restaurant officially open. Situated one hundred and sixty five metres above Sydney Harbour it takes one and three quarter hours to make a complete revolution, revolving at one metre per minute. The mechanism is so finely geared that it requires only two three quarter horsepower motors. Fully loaded, the platform weighs 200 tonnes and is the largest revolving restaurant in the world. On a clear day, like today, you can see for up to 80 kilometres.

Tonight we dine like kings on oysters and fine Australian meats.