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 :)