Victoria Market

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I finally made it down to Queen Victoria Market. It’s the central market of Melbourne, just outside the CBD. First, I wasn’t impressed that much. I wandered through halls with lots of clothing, and the usual stuff aimed at tourists, Australia T-shirts, bags, scarfs, etc… and I found two rows of vegetables and fruit… but […] Read More

I’m through with you

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It happened. I walked through the first pair of shoes. I realize how much strain is being out on clothes if you wear the same stuff constantly. My t-shirts suffer, the jeans have holes (the very first pair was through in San Francisco already)… And now it’s time to say good-bye to these shoes.   Read More

Melbourne NOW

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The first day of rain in, like, evah! So I headed down to the National Gallery of Victoria south of the Yarra river. We had already seen a photography exhibition there, this time I was in for there permanent collection, which is free (!) to see some of their modern art, from Warhol to Rothko, […] Read More

Everything I know…

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…I learnt from Madonna! I went to a Midsumma event last night, a one-man show by a fellow Madonna fan, obviously, who wrote and acted in a play about his life, work, lovers, and told the story through a number of quotations taken from Madonna’s extensive song catalogue. It was funny, sad, touching…. The Queen […] Read More

Back to Sydney

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I only had a two-day stint in Sydney, basically once walking throughout the park, to the Opera, and through Bondi, besides the fabulous NYE Party we had. I had to come back though to give it a second, more thorough look, so after Tasmania I will head over to Sydney for ten days. I will […] Read More

Australian Open

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The Australian Open are on. You can’t ignore it, the advertising, the public viewing screens, the fans… it’s a fun atmosphere. I sat on Federation Square at the public viewing a couple of times already, eating something and watching a couple of balls being played over the net. Tickets sold out fast, especially for the […] Read More

Tales of my city

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I woke up and checked my emails, I had one from my credit card, stating that Amazon had charged me with a purchase over night. What? I was asleep… Then it dawned on me: my download of the latest Tales of the city novel had arrived. I read the Tales in 2005 I think. A […] Read More

(My map of) Tasmania

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I finally made some decisions on the remaining two weeks that I still have to fill in Australia. It was so hard, so much to see, but also so expensive… I cannot afford to fly up North and go snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef this time, I will skip the Uluru for the same […] Read More

Patio drinks

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The weekend was alcohol infused, to say the least. Saturday night saw me drinking a couple of beers at the Laird’s back patio again. Sunday I met up with Rajiv and Will, the friend of Sven who was so generous to host us in our first 9 days in Melbourne. We went to The Railway […] Read More

Out of time

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After one final, ultra hot day – spent at the pool, but in the shade – with temperatures reaching an amazing 44 degrees, the evening has brought the long awaited cooling down. Within an hour, temperatures dropped by 15 degrees as predicted. I was expecting something more drastic, it sounded so dramatic – but temperatures […] Read More

Lentil as anything

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After another day at the Fitzroy pool, my new friend Kieran, a fellow swimmer, took me to the Abbotsford Convent, on the Yarra river, just a bit west of the centre of Melbourne. During the 19th and part of the 20th century, it was one of the largest convents in Victoria. Today, it is a […] Read More