New Year's Eve at home. Just us as well as the cats. Photo yesteryear Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
Problem
I desire to spotter the New Year's Eve celebrations on TV every bit shortly every bit they start. When create they get-go inwards Sydney?
Answer
Go to SydNYE - a clever pun on Sydney as well as New Year's Eve.
Their website gives you lot a countdown a few hours ahead.
Sydney is
iii hours ahead of Singapore
10 hours ahead of London
15 hours ahead of New York.
Top sites for celebrations include:
New Zealand - lights from the tower
Sydney, Commonwealth of Australia - fireworks as well as lines of lights along Sydney harbour bridge
Hong Kong
Japan
Marina Bay, Singapore
Gibraltar
London, England - encounter Big Ben clock chime
Edinburgh, Scotland (where New Year's Day is a bigger celebration than Christmas) backdrop Edinburgh Castle
Rio, Brazil
Las Vegas, USA - pedestrianised centre street party
New York, USA
Singapore
In Singapore the large celebrations are to a greater extent than or less Marina Bay over the H2O as well as you lot tin encounter from skyscrapers inwards the Downtown (also the parent of a halt on the MRT railway) as well as Central Business District (CBD for short).
The local newspapers, which you lot tin read online, such every bit The Straits Times, as well as Today, written report on closures of roads to auto as well as bridges to cars as well as pedestrians. The police delineate likewise warn that to foreclose overcrowding on platforms you lot may sense delays when attempting to decease home. So you lot won't necessarily live able to decease into a station at 10 or 20 yesteryear midnight. In London, England, the twelvemonth earlier last, nosotros went to the station, saw serpent barriers as well as went dorsum to the bar-cum eating theatre as well as had to a greater extent than nutrient as well as drinks. The latest trains dwelling solid are posted on stations.
Free
Many local suburban areas bring fireworks displays inwards parks close centre which are free. For lawsuit Woodlands, inwards the opened upwards surface area close the MRT station as well as bus station.
Rain
It rained nearly of the twenty-four hr menstruum inwards Singapore as well as was overcast, a disappointment to photographers. H5N1 consummate torrential downpour at 7.40 pm. You tin take away heed the pelting pelting down.
I likewise wondered whether grassy areas mightiness live muddy. So I bring asked my solid unit of measurement to spotter on TV as well as shipping me photos. You volition likewise in all probability live able to encounter photos on Facebook as well as other sites. Rain won't dampen our plans.
Plans
Plan your outfits, drinks as well as spectacles - as well as novel twelvemonth wishes. If you lot are inwards Commonwealth of Australia or Singapore you lot tin decease on watching all over i time to a greater extent than every bit the New Year's Day is welcomed all over Asia, Europe as well as the USA.
I establish it best to plough out the lights to a greater extent than or less the screen.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Useful website
You tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ajEkB3zzuk New Year's Eve
Author
Angela Lansbury, locomote author as well as photographer, author as well as speaker.