Older Soknitsome Daughter sent this yarn to me from Munich via Mr Soknitsome’s suitcase last January.
In March it accompanied me to Europe and spent the weekend in Munich with Older Soknitsome Daughter and her then fiancé. I knitted about half a foot. The project was laid aside for others until it was time to head off to Europe again. 
There was some knitting-on-a-plane between Cologne and Salzburg and even a spot of knitting during some downtime in Salzburg, where we spent a long weekend for Older Soknitsome Daughter’s wedding. By the time I left Cologne to head back to Sydney, the toe of the second sock was cast on. I finally finished these at knit night yesterday.
I’ve knitted stripey socks like these before. The pattern’s Magic Zauberball Stripe Socks by Tofutrulla and you knit alternating 5-round stripes from yarn with long colour changes. This yarn is Lana Grossa Meilenweit Magico which is very similar to Schoppel Zauberball. Last time, I actually broke the yarn and moved on a bit whenever the two colours got too close. This time, I either swapped anyway or knitted 10 rounds in the same colour so I have some blurred stripes but the overall effect is similar. Naturally there were fewer ends to sew in, too.
So what’s next? Continue with the cardigan I started in Europe, cast on my ‘social knitting’ project and of course some more socks!
However, it’s almost time to head off to the airport for another long-haul flight back to Germany. (That really makes me sound like I’m some kind of jet-setter when it’s just been how family events have turned out). I’m looking forward to some serious knitting time. I have that sock I started and I have a new cardigan to cast on! The sock is a Magic Zauberball Stripe sock but I’m using a Lana Grossa yarn that also has long colour stripes.
This is how far I’d got after two long-haul flights (Sydney to Tokyo and Tokyo to Vienna).
And here’s another splash of colour
The old buildings have been renovated and turned into flats and restaurants.
The pathway climbs a little allowing a view of the Andrew “Boy” Charlton swimming pool. Charlton was an Australian swimmer who won five Olympic medals during the 1920s but there’s been some kind of swimming here since the first Europeans settled in Sydney. Woolloomooloo Bay was a working harbour and you can see the naval dockyard (still in operation) in the background.
Macquarie was the Governor of New South Wales from 1810-1821 and he had this seat carved (by convicts) out of the rock for his wife to enjoy the view.
Again, come early for people-free photos! Then it’s a walk around Farm Cove. On my right the Opera House in front of Sydney Harbour Bridge 
and on my left this lovely Jacaranda tree. 
Look closely and you’ll spot that lovely Jacaranda tree again once I’ve walked 1.4 km round the cove 
and am nearing the Opera House. Almost there!
Straight across, you have The Rocks and Mr Soknitsome works in one of the office buildings here on the left.
I then meander my way home. I have little or no sense of direction and so I end up taking various paths but always at a fast pace. Past this herb garden, 
or these giant trees (the statue is almost life-size so you get an idea of how large some of these old trees are). 
Mr Soknitsome first showed me this Elephant Foot Tree but I have since found it myself.
Then I walk past the Art Gallery of New South Wales and I’m almost home.
…and then took a train from Mayschoss back to Cologne. The route we walked is not strenuous, and not really very long but it does make for a nice day out.
The terraces are steep and we wondered how they actually harvest the grapes – can they use machines or must they harvest by hand? 
Fortunately, this year, there were some men working there (with small shears the size of paper scissors!) so we asked about the steepness.
