St. Kilda beach sunset

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Blistering heat. I spent all day in the pool, unfortunately my shoulders are a bit red now…. In the evening, I met up with friends in St. Kilda at the beach, for beers, to watch the sunset over the bay and have dinner afterwards. St. Kilda is bustling at that time of day, everyone is […] Read More

Moonlight

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After a super hot day, and a splash into the pool again late in the evening, I rode my bike around Fitzroy for a final beer in the moonlight. The night was hot, thanks for Kate’s air fan I managed to sleep though. Today the program will be similar. A splash in the pool, then […] Read More

Heatwave

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It’s been announced for several days, and now the heatwave that has torched Perth and Adelaide has arrived in Victoria. Yesterday the temperature in Melbourne hit 34 degrees, but it’s a dry heat and you could actually bear it. I spent time at the pool again, doing only a couple of laps, because it was […] Read More

Meet St. James

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I have a bike! It’s called St. James. My friend Colin has a foldable bike that he does not use at the moment, so he was so generous to lend it to me for my time here in Melbourne. Colin is a man with many talents – he’s the one who got us into Shandong […] Read More

Midsumma Carnival

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Sunday saw the launch of the Midsumma festival, with Midsumma Carnival held at Alexandra Gardens. I went there relatively early and roamed the stands, free goodies and enjoyed the show. Midsumma will run into February and host dozens of events: shows, music, poems, exhibitions, sports, shows… I seriously need to plan this so I get […] Read More

Fitzroy

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Living next to the pool is real great. I swam 10 laps on Friday and even 15 on Saturday. It was a bit overcast first, so the pool was empty and only the swimmers were there, I had a whole lap to myself. When did that happen last time…? Then I explored Fitzroy for a […] Read More

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