and so it continues...

okay, second part :)

for those whoe wondered why there comments didn't get published... commenting DOES work; however, comments have to be manually confirmed by me before they get postet (that is because appearently blogs are prone to be used as spam-mediums, and who wants to read about penis enlargement pills all the time anyways?)...

okay i wanted to continue my story...



Today i walked from the place where i'm staying first to fitzroy, the artsy suburb of melbourne (suburbs are not adjacent cities but more like the disctricts-system in vienna).. that was a good 2 hour walk, but quite a nice one... the place itself was also quite interessting, lots of nice restaurants and stores and stuff... definitly a place to check out... well... apart from that nothing much happened today, so im gonna sum up the last few days here now..

places i've visited:

(The leftmost tower is the eureka tower)

Eureka Tower: Highest building in Melbourne (88 stories high) with the fastest lift in the southern hemisphere (!!!). quite a nice viewfrom there :)



Melbourne Aquarium: Cool weird creatures, like the japanese spider crabs (http://www.iol.ie/~seaworld/data/Crab.htm) and a nice tube trough which you can walk with sharks and stingrays swimming over your head (especially the stingrays were amazing :) )

Suzuki Night Market

market that starts in the early evening... 17-2200 or so... free life music, lots of cool stuff to buy.. at a tea i eavesdropped on a conversation between one of the clerks and a local farmer who said that hes manufacturing greentea himself, but his stuff is exported to japan and then reimported from there... hehe... prolly thats why noone knows of australian green tea... (there is australian black tea, but it seams not to be to popular)

Victoria Market

i also visitied victoria market by day, and its quite a nice place to get cheap vegetables :) even nicer than the adelaide central market...

again, no photos, sorry guys :( (i know its quite a dry read without any illustration, but i simply cant use to much bandwith here..): update/Photos!

The short, but slow journey

(update: dates corrected)

soo, i kinda decided to write the entries concerning my further travels in english since a few guys in adelaide also might want to read them..

my temporary home

i'm sitting at my couchsurfing accommodation in richmond (suburb of melbourne, 10mins from the inner city) right now writing this blog on a supertrandy mac-book. the guys here are quite nice. one circus artist, a performance-arts student and a girl that also does/did something circus related when she was younger if i got it all correct... but lets start from the beginning:

24th of november

Farewell Dinner

Kaki King @ Wah Bar

Farewell dinner at chhavie's place with the usual suspects (soupreya, roshan, basically the whole india-connection) We made coke pancakes! (due to budget reasons the brownish liquid kind, not the whitish powederish kind). after that i went to the kaki king concert at the adelaide festival center (was a part of the adelaide guitar festival) which was quite amazing... it's hot when a girl knows how to use a loop pedal..
then i took a taxi to shanti's place in glenelg (she just moved there on that day) (my housing conctracrt ended on that day, so i couldnt return to my former place).

25th of november... and so it begins

french people pick stefan up, french people pick theresa up, all together try to fit all the laguage in the car for about an hour... and finaly succeed... all people happy... auto makes brum brum!
on the first day we stopped at the murray river mouth, which wasn't all that exciting except for HEAPS (aussi slang!) of cool birds.. second stop was the naracoorte caves (or something like that) national park, which was closed sadly 8( so we continued without having seen those amazing caves (SA's only world heritage site!!) we finally slept in our tent on the lawn of a backpackers hotel (!!) since the owner appearently wasn't there.. i recharged my mobile phone over night in one of the common rooms and my simcard got stolen 8( .. well.. that's nearly the same amount of money lost that i saved by not paying for the housing so it kinda doesn't matter all that much... was just very annoying getting the card activated (in australia, as well as usa as far as i know, customer support calls get redirected to india (!!!) because the callcenter workforce is a lot cheaper there... something i allready knew from roshan but could experience firsthand on tha occasion!)

26th of november

Otway national park... best beach i've ever seen.. nice sand slope that was cool for some downhill-rolling action :). Night at bush camping grounds... grunting koalas (appearently they sound like angry pigs when they grunt... hard to believe but true) and possums jumping swiftly trough the trees... actually quite a scarry soundscape when youre in a tent in the dark ;)

27th of november



Beach! did some rock climbing... hurt myself a bit on the knees because i decided rather to jump the jump instead of walk the walk (hey, would have been a perfectly sane thing to do if i had had shoes).
nothing much else happened before we arrived in melbourne though...
I spent my first night in melbourne in the king street backpackers, which seams to be a nice place, before moving to my cs accomodation the next day in the evening

now im definitly to lazy to write more ;) sorry, rest will come later this week

maybe even with pictures if your'e lucky :)

Nagut...

nagut scooter war anscheinend ausverkauft unerwarterweise :( dafür gabs ne nette ersatzparty, und jez gehtsmal zum strand (fkk style)

work work work

so... letzte große abgabe fertig.. jez gehts ans lernen für prüfungen... wird zwar nicht so viel aba in wirklichkeit is da doch noch einiges an arbeit nötig :( naja... was solls..
nach melbourne fahr ich mal mit ein paar franzosen wenn ich das richtig sehe.. bisncho gespannt wies dann weitergeht, habja ned wirklich einen definitiven plan (zur zeit ist aba kaffee ernte wenn ich das richtig mitbekommen hab... vieleicht arbeit ich ja auf ner kaffee plantage für ne woche oder so :) )
und ein tolles, zurzeit von mir noch geheimgehaltenes konzert wird es hier bald geben auf dass ich schauen werde... um euch einbischen gespannt zu lassen..