München

early spring

Just been a week to Paris with my new job, the same company :D The new position means even more traveling, so expect me soon in a city near you or even your city :) Paris again in January, then Padova, Barcelona (L*O*V*E*L*Y), Manchester, Dublin and Warsaw to make it Europe!!!!!!! Cheers for now and let me know what you are doing! Besos de Suecia!

billabong

i've done it. it's illegal in the state of new south wales. it's not illegal in queensland, because today, in the billabong sanctuary i was holding a koala. it was beautiful, but not as cute as someone else.......

imagenes

the images from aussie snowboarding :)

2030m

fast hero

The secret of energy boosting. Find all Polish items in this image :D

snowboarding in snowy mountains

I have been traveling a lot lately and my computer has been doing very strange things, not even to be explained by the computer experts having spent several of their jouvenile years on the beautiful art of hacking. Still, my internet access is pretty restricted, not the fastest and most accessible broadband in the world I tell you :)

I have been to Brisbane, the Gold Coast, several small towns therearound and Townsville. The pictures will come as I will have the time to upload them.

Two weekends ago, me and Bastian, a German friend of mine, working in Australia on similar terms, went south to the Snowy Mountains, very close to the boarder of Victoria, but still in New South Wales, even though it's closer to Melbourne than Sydney... We drove through Canberra and got to Thredbo, which showed to be the most snoby ski resort in Australia, on Friday evening. Thredbo is full of nice cars, rich people and, during the wintertime, it is one of a few skiing bases in the Snowy Mountains. This weekend, the European population of Thredbo accounted for two, including my friend and myself. The prices are a bit high, we payed 75AUD per person per night in a 4-bed dorm room. Off-season, the same costs something like 20AUD. The day pass was following similar pricing strategy.... but who would say no to an opportunity of snowboarding in Australia? :D

The highest peak was at 2030m, with a very cosy blizzard at this altitude. The snow and the overall experience was much better than I expected, although there was no powder and much ice, it was great for a weekend. and for Australia :)

In the dorm we met a guy having a Swedish mother, he didn't talk Swedish though. And during our cosy evening, reading books at the fireplace and talking to a university professor from Sydney, we were joined by an Aussie, who had spent two and a half years in Östersund and was pretty eloquent in Swedish. Odd, but real :) It was a great weekend! We also saw a couple of kangaroos, and managed not to hit any of them while snowboarding.... :D

on the move again

I'ts Sunday afternoon and I am in the airport again. Returned on Wednesday night from over a week in northern New South Wales, the Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise and Brisbane and going up to Townsville for three days. In the meantime my laptop stopped to be eager to connect to the internet and I had to have Windows reinstalled. I can't believe how addicted one can be to the internet :) Will write more soon and publish some pictures as well. Hope it's sunny in Townsville! Hugs to ya friends!

helylle

fresh news: a gym in malmö offered a special deal for couples, without defining the term "couple". when someone asked about gay couples and the gym representative wouldn't accept that as a "couple", they reported the case to homoombudsmannen, call it a ombud for the rights of the homosexual. sweden, a country where everything's ought to be right and follow the rule, whatever the rule might be. so very unspanish. so very helylle. so very lagom....

btw. i am in this very instant listening to sahara hotnights and consuming mandel spekulatius from aldi - german gingerbreads - they didn't have any glühwein, but it feels a bit Christmassy anyway, reminding me of the of December in Innsbruck....

el rei

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art deco riders

superb art deco guarding the art gallery of new south wales. click on the image to view as large.

australian marketing

found on the saturday shopping tour. did not know whether i should wave to him, laugh at him or kick him in the butt (he was certainly asking for it).

so i shot him. with a 4MB piece of arms. very pacifistic :)

even more mtb

a couple more photos from the mountains. btw, great game yesterday, ey :)

you talkin' to me?

drinking electricity

upwards....

where did the road go....?

everybody sing with lucky luke: I'm a poor lonesome cowboy.......

the ride

Andrew, the financial controller. also very skilled in breaking bicysle parts....

walk/runners. we passed them laughing going downhill and were passed laughed at when Andrews chain broke :) Grüss euch!

The source of energy. outperforms duracell. (Polish plum chocolate-covered plum for the ignorant reader :)

yes, there was a river to pass. no gators. i think.

suspension bridge and the coolest guy :)

rudeboys

kiwis (new zealanders) and aussies (inhabitants of the world's leading vegemite-consuming country) like to kid about eachother....

amsterdam pht

swedish surprise

Found in a restroom in katoomba, blue mountains, new south wales.

First Ikea, then Volvo and now SCA. From Göteborg, Sweden.

proudly being irish

Just got this one from Frankie Knuckles here at work, crazy guy!

Oh' when the Irish eyes are smiling.......

state of art

origin of state of origin.

a big game was played in Oz tonight, a game of rugby. And not any rugby.

the game is a mix of football and fight club, and when it's played between the states of Australia, they call it state of origin. the players play for the state they started to play in. Hence the name. state of origin.

it's a huge thing over here. more than 50.000 aussies saw it in the stadium, and at least as many in my local pub. Queensland beat New South Wales (the state we're in) (didn't chemical brothers use this phrase already?) but beer in just the right ratios makes people happy anyhow. there's a lot of franziskaner in yours truly at the moment.

and he's got to work at nine. see you tomorrow! cheers!

Fredrik and Martin, try to get his cola!

united colors of benetton

It's autumn in the southern hemisphere.

It's getting cold in the city of Sydney. Extremely cold. Use your scarfs and everything.

Half of the staff in the office is ill. Even more, half the Sydney is.

This is certain when the temperature suddnly drops to 17C during nighttime....

How's the summer in la Europa? How are you guys? Emails, comments are well appreciated!

Still waiting for the new camera charger soon to arrive from hong-kong. Koalas comming soon

mission completed

Got up at four thirty this morning, had a cup of tea for breakfast, a second one for lunch and a 350g steak for dinner at five. the mission is completed. the isntrument is installed and runs as a jamaican and an ethiopian combined. i am back in Sydney and experienced the diversity of the local public transportation. it always takes you twice the normal the first time. but now you know how it works and that you shouldn't get off at circular quay if you want to go to north sydney station. it was a nice thirty minutes walk home over the harbour bridge with the opera house to your immediate right. now it's immediate bed time. yawn. goodonya!