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Champagne weekend Sydney 2008

July 2, 2016 by David Herd

Weekend with Stingy

Champagne weekend Sydney

Champagne weekend Sydney

Champagne weekend Sydney in 2008 was on the menu when I spent a weekend at a friends home in Point Piper. He worries about being seen on the internet, so to protect his privacy we will just call him Stingy. I imagine a whistle-blower will tip him off about this post and he will complain as usual. I would like to stress nothing in this personal photo blog of mine is intended to cause him any discomfort. It is in fact a salute to a very successful businessman.

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Champagne football Sydney is my personal photo history not part of my travel blog.

Champagne weekend Sydney

I was very lucky when Stingy lent me one of his cars to use, extremely lucky when it turned out to be a Lexus. 🙂

City skyline from Vaucluse

Champagne weekend Sydney

I took advantage of my flash transport and did a little tour around the eastern suburbs.

Coogee Beach

Champagne weekend Sydney

A deserted Coogee beach, I have many memories of the local pubs where I often visited in my 20s.

Stingy is the big guy in the middle

Champagne weekend Sydney

Peter Hobbs and Peter H on the right. Peter H is another guy who is paranoid about his name on the internet. We are at the SCG to see the Sydney Swans play the Richmond Tigers.

 Sydney Cricket Ground

Champagne weekend Sydney

This wonderful sports arena with this beautiful members stand, which was built in 1886, holds countless memories for myself and millions of sports fans all over Australia.

Stingy & friends

Champagne weekend Sydney

John Martin aka Pothole with his Chinese girlfriend and Lee O’mara are here with Stingy at the Woolahra hotel. Pothole lives in the same condo as I do in Pattaya 2 hours south of Bangkok, in fact he accompanied me on a quick trip to Koh Samui only last week on June 20 2016.

Woolahra Hotel

Champagne weekend Sydney

Sadly Pothole lost his best friend John Griffin just a few months after this photo was taken after he lost a long battle with cancer.

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Bar Reggio

Champagne weekend Sydney

Friday lunch at Bar Reggio is a long term tradition for Stingy and his friends, located in Crown St Darlinghurst, it is a lively Italian restaurant that serves good food and allows you to bring your own wine.

Back to Stingy’s palace

Champagne weekend Sydney

Every wall upstairs and down is cluttered with paintings.

Running out of wall space

Champagne weekend Sydney

A great example of how to make a terrific home look less attractive. 🙂

A Stingy lookalike

Champagne weekend Sydney

They could be twins. 🙂

Champagne weekend Sydney, I’ll drink to that. 

Champagne weekend Sydney

I’m not generally a champagne drinker however I will make an exception for Dom Perignon. 🙂

Great kitchen

Champagne weekend Sydney

This is certainly one of the nicest homes I have ever stayed in.

 Stingy’s liquor cabinet

Champagne weekend Sydney

There is no shortage of booze in Stingy’s house, as you can clearly see Jim Beam is his preferred poison.

Ten years have flown by & now in 2018 aged 70 Stingy has given up the booze. So many years of heavy drinking have finally caught up with him. The doctors advice was crystal clear, stop drinking or die.

Geriatrics R Us.

Champagne weekend SydneyThat’s Stingy (2nd from the left) in December 2017, he has lost an incredible amount of weight being off the booze.

Naturally living on the waterfront you need a boat

Champagne weekend Sydney

Captain Stingy conducting business on the high seas. 🙂

Stingy = chick magnet

Champagne weekend Sydney

Of course the ladies are attracted by his good looks and animal magnetism, boats, booze & a $6 million dollar house have nothing to do with it.

Champagne weekend Sydney at Stingy’s palace

Champagne weekend Sydney

Three stories and looking over Sydney harbour.

Just a short distance to his great catamaran.

Champagne weekend Sydney

Stingy’s great looking boat.

 Sea Treasure at Crows Nest.

Champagne weekend Sydney

On the right is my cousin Debbie with her South African friend Phyllis, great food at the Sea Treasure.

Crab at the Sea Treasure

Champagne weekend Sydney

Fantastic crab at the Sea Treasure, this reminds me of Boat Quay in Singapore. 🙂

That’s all folks

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