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

Unfinished business in STGO

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It’s time to look back at Santiago de Chile. Any city that came after Buenos Aires would have a hard time, I thought. BA was one of my highlights. I didn’t really want to leave at all. Santiago though won me over fast. Its people are open and friendly, the city is easy going and fun […] Read More

NYE party

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We had tickets for the best spot in town, a NYE party held on top of the Museum for Contemporary Arts, with a view over the harbor, the opera house and the bridge. It simply could not get any better than this. Watching the news and the crowds that had already gathered around the harbor, […] 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

NYE2014

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On top of the Museum of Contemporary Art, we had the best view ever. The party was great, fun crowd, flowing bubbles, fun music, and the scenery simply cannot be topped. I took some 500 pictures… Watch out for a gallery soon. Read More

Harbor trip

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At sunset, we took one of the harbor ferries to bring us back to our Bondi home. And enjoy some spectacular views of the bridge and the Opera house at sunset. It is a quick ride of maybe 20 minutes, the ferry bringing you to strategic points along the bay. From there, dinner at Café […] Read More

Arts & sights

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We headed for the Art Gallery New South Wales, to see their permanent collection of modern Australian art, and a current exhibition on American painting. I don’t think I have ever seen Australian painters before. In a continent in discovery, arts and paintings were not necessarily the first thing on the settlers’ minds. A great […] Read More

Down under

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The flights to Australia were good. I am always a bit scared of flying, albeit I am fascinated by it. But night flights, especially over water, are a bit scary to me. Now I was looking at nearly 13 hours non-stop over water, with maybe one or the other secure landing strip in a couple […] Read More

Heading south again

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After a two-day stop in San Francisco, I’ll be heading south again today, to Auckland and then on to Sydney, where I will meet my friends Sven, Kevin and Rajiv from Brussels. This is going to be the longest flight so far. And I’ll fly over the international date line and skip a day. I […] Read More