It is nice to be back in Sydney. I met up with some friends from university for a birth celebration on thursday and went to see the Sydney Biennale with Megan yesterday. Both were really nice. The Biennale is an fairly large arts event in the city and yesterday we checked out one location: Cockatoo Island. Getting there by a free ferry was fun and the Island in itself was an awesome place to visit. It used to be a Australian navy base, but has been abandoned since and now hosts the arts festival. It has cool cranes, buildings and tunnels all over the place and the art was quite nice as well. In the evening we went to see a theatre show in Surry Hills, which although I am not much into theatre, I must admit was very cool to see.
In my house in Leichhardt things are becoming quiet as most kids are now leaving for their parents for the winterholidays. This is a bit sad have come to enjoy living with them. Today or tomorrow I hope to come up with a plan to travel around Australia a bit more (North is warm) and I will let you know where I am going asap. See you!
Ah, and there should be photos on Flickr yet again.
27.6.08
Melbourne report
Hi, for those who were wondering what I was up to in Melbourne: here is a short report, to keep you up to date. As mentioned before I went down to Melbourne with Guido, my Italian friend from across the hall. Sonja cooked us a nice dinner and dropped us off at the busstop from where we took the nightbus. Though the night bus was cheap, the ride was hell. The ride was long (8hours) and uncomfortable. In the middle of the night we had a short stop at a rather depressing truck stop.
At 8 am in the morning we finally arrived exhausted in the city. We took up residence in the All Nations backpackers. A typical dodgy backpackers that would do fine for a couple of days. We decided to explore the city by the free circle line tram and after we went for wine in the Black Cat in Fitzroy. During the week the Black Cat turned into our favorite midnight hangout and their Cabernet Merlot turned into our drug of choice.
Melbourne is a very cool place to visit. Everything is closer together then back here in Sydney and the shopping is ridiculously good. Got myself a new pair of Onitsuka Tigers and trousers. There are a lot of arty things to see, but the nicest thing about Melbourne would be the bumming around in the many coffee and wine bars. Good times were had right there.
Should you be around you should definetely visit the Victoria National Gallery, maybe the best arts museum in Australia?, Federation Square - lots going on there, we saw the GAME ON video game expostion at the ACMI - and the Royal Botannical Gardens were quite awesome as well. We also went to see a game of Aussie Rules Football, a combination of rugby, soccer, basket and volleyball at the MCG, but that did not quite work for me. Could not figure out the game, but seeing it was an experience in its own.
See the photoos on Flickr.
At 8 am in the morning we finally arrived exhausted in the city. We took up residence in the All Nations backpackers. A typical dodgy backpackers that would do fine for a couple of days. We decided to explore the city by the free circle line tram and after we went for wine in the Black Cat in Fitzroy. During the week the Black Cat turned into our favorite midnight hangout and their Cabernet Merlot turned into our drug of choice.
Melbourne is a very cool place to visit. Everything is closer together then back here in Sydney and the shopping is ridiculously good. Got myself a new pair of Onitsuka Tigers and trousers. There are a lot of arty things to see, but the nicest thing about Melbourne would be the bumming around in the many coffee and wine bars. Good times were had right there.
Should you be around you should definetely visit the Victoria National Gallery, maybe the best arts museum in Australia?, Federation Square - lots going on there, we saw the GAME ON video game expostion at the ACMI - and the Royal Botannical Gardens were quite awesome as well. We also went to see a game of Aussie Rules Football, a combination of rugby, soccer, basket and volleyball at the MCG, but that did not quite work for me. Could not figure out the game, but seeing it was an experience in its own.
See the photoos on Flickr.
Melbourne photoos online
Hi there, just uploaded a set of photoos of my trip to Melbourne. Check m out if you like it on Flickr. Details might follow tomorrow...
25.6.08
Back from Melbourne
Hi there! It has been a while and a lot has been going on. University ended two weeks ago and I think everything was handed in succesfully, so I should be fine. Now I need to get started on looking for my graduation project, as all courses have been completed. It is a strange thought.
Just as I was enjoying my sparetime and considering finally backing up my pictures and documents, my computer crashed last week. The thing got stuck in a vicious Windows update loop. It keept booting, configuring 0% and restart - shutting down and again. It could not be persuaded to stop doing this so I has to bring out a linux boot cd to rescue my documents and now I have got a brand new Vista running on a otherwise empty harddisk.
When the Vista ordeal was over I went to Melbourne with Guido, the Italian from across the hallway. We took a cheap night bus to get there and that took 8 misrable hours. Once there Melbourne was pretty pretty cool. It has nice and big centre and exels in shopping, coffee - and wine drinking facilities. We also saw some cool expositions in the ACMI: GAME ON a retrospective on videogame design and the National Gallery of Victoria was showing the works of Alfred Stieglitz and Otto Dix among many other things. I'll try to get some photos and maybe more stories online soon, but now I have to go and check on my laundry. See you soon...
Just as I was enjoying my sparetime and considering finally backing up my pictures and documents, my computer crashed last week. The thing got stuck in a vicious Windows update loop. It keept booting, configuring 0% and restart - shutting down and again. It could not be persuaded to stop doing this so I has to bring out a linux boot cd to rescue my documents and now I have got a brand new Vista running on a otherwise empty harddisk.
When the Vista ordeal was over I went to Melbourne with Guido, the Italian from across the hallway. We took a cheap night bus to get there and that took 8 misrable hours. Once there Melbourne was pretty pretty cool. It has nice and big centre and exels in shopping, coffee - and wine drinking facilities. We also saw some cool expositions in the ACMI: GAME ON a retrospective on videogame design and the National Gallery of Victoria was showing the works of Alfred Stieglitz and Otto Dix among many other things. I'll try to get some photos and maybe more stories online soon, but now I have to go and check on my laundry. See you soon...
Abonneren op:
Posts (Atom)