Back to normal

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The last two weeks have been pretty intense. Leaving Santiago, flying to San Francisco, meeting my friends there, flying south again, meeting Sven, Kevin and Rajiv, New Year’s Eve, then flying to Melbourne, exploring, meeting new people here… I hardly had any time to breathe or think about all that happened. Now the boys have […] Read More

True Oasis

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Today, Sven and Kevin left early for their long flight back from Melbourne to Sydney to Singapore to Frankfurt to Brussels. It’ll take them about 24 hours to be home…. Rajiv and I cleaned the house and took off to our respective new homes. He is staying with a friend in Brighton, South of Melbourne […] Read More

Penguins at night

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The last two days we were just exploring Melbourne bit by bit. A bit of shopping, coffee, strolling, lunch, a stop in the Melbourne museum that’s showing a vast exhibition about James Bond (my friends Sue would have loved it), another stroll, another coffee… The last night of Sven&Kevin’s stay in Australia, we went down […] Read More

Ah ahm stahhhhn’t!

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Today I got a copy of Melbourne’s queer festival Midsumma, that will happen most of January and into February. The choice of events is amazing. A play called Everything I know I learnt from Madonna, Madonna shows… movies, performances, exhibitions… I’ll be very busy! But best of it all, Midsumma brings a special performance of […] Read More

Great Ocean Road Trip

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I’m sorry for my beloved California and the Highway 1 that I have travelled up and down a couple of times – but this coast line simply beats everything! Sunday morning we headed south along Port Philipp’s Bay, to catch a ferry over to the other side in Sorrento and head along the Great Ocean […] Read More

ShanDong MaMa

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Meet ShanDong MaMa. We were looking for a place with dumplings. A friend of Rajiv, Michael, recommended the MaMa, and reserved a table for us there though another friend. So we took a taxi and got off in the CBD, the central business district, as Aussies call their downtowns. We were looking for it in a […] Read More

With friends

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I’m discovering Melbourne step by step these days with Sven, Kevin and Rajiv. It’s great to have them here. My friend Kevin, always keen to sniff out the newest exhibitions, found this great show about early fashion photographer Edward Steichen in the National Gallery of Victoria. They also run an exhibition called MELBOURNE NOW, concentrating […] Read More

War memorial

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We walked over to downtown and passed a park with the huge WWI war memorial. While Europe is preparing for the centennial commemorations of one of its biggest tragedies this year, we realized that this war really was a word-wide conflict. Some 16600 kilometers away from the battle fields, most Australian towns will have a […] Read More

Melbourne Discoveries

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We arrived in our great St. Kilda luxury apartment on Thursday. Sven really has friends with great taste. We are in a big apartment building on one of the main streets in St. Kilda, 20 minutes walk from the beach and the main areas of St. Kilda with its shops, restaurants and bakeries. Down in […] Read More

And on to Melbourne

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After only two days in Sydney I’ll head on South, to Melbourne. Melbourne had been one of the corner stones in the planning of this trip. It’s one of the places I have been most impatient to see and live in. In the next couple if days I’ll stay in St. Kilda with my friends, […] Read More

My Fitzroy oasis

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I finally have a place in Melbourne! It was tough! Prices are steep, I could not afford a whole place by myself like I had in Buenos Aires or Santiago. The choice on Airbnb was less extensive than in the other cities so far. Maybe because of the summer. And I’m relatively late. Anyway, after […] Read More