Rent said:
^yeap, sydney's famouse for best and biggest new year demonstrations, it's shown world wide on tv ..
I would agree that Sydney's is one of the best, and is probably my favourite,
but one can't really claim the "shown world wide on TV" thing.
On your second post, the article claims "600 million people world wide". Well,
living oversea's, they don't actually show it on TV as a special event, all they
do is show highlights of the different NYE celebrations of the world, usually
lasting a minute or less from each city, and Sydney is always included.
But I have never seen any "show" dedicated to the Sydney event, so I
suspect there is a little creative license involved in those claims that
600million people watch the event.
As well as Sydney's event, Hong Kong is also pretty much up there as well. In
2000, Paris put on one of the most amazing, but it seems to have scaled down a bit since then.
Here in Frankfurt, there is no official fireworks display, so it really doesn't
count in that way, but what they have which is just as spectacular, is
everyone shooting off their personal fireworks all at once (something which is
banned in Australia), and although there are no giant explosions, what you
get is the entire city lit up by millions of smaller ones, which has an effect
that has to be seen to be imagined - It's much more spectacular than it
sounds, and when my Sydney friends have come over here for NYE, they are
also blown away by it, which must say something.
Here are some photo's I have taken over the years from my terrace, which on
the 18th floor has an amazing view for this. It really looks like WWIII, and
that the entire city is on fire.
The photo's don't do justice of the amazing sight it really is.
The 2001 display
2002 scroll >>>>>
2003
2004