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V Festival in Perth

My last big trip during my exchange took me to Perth, where I spent the weekend and most of this monday. On the flight there, I read Bringing down the house , a book on a real team of MIT students beating the Las Vegas casinos by counting black jack cards. I normally don't read much, but almost finished the 300 pages during the flight, which tells you both how long the flight is and how much I liked the book.

Perth started out rather disappointing: I paid far too much for the rental car, stayed in a hostel so bad that it could be located in London and it rained all through saturday morning, which I had planned to spend on the beaches.
It got a lot better when I met up with Chet , who I had contacted through couchsurfing.com , since we both had plans to go to the V Festival at the Esplanades the following day. Like me, Chet is a bit of a geek (though not of the Linux kind) and we had a good time together. In the afternoon, the sun came out, and I got my chance to explore the beautiful city.


Skyline of Perth

Sunday morning, I headed down to the beach, to have my first swim in the Indian Ocean, something I never got around to do during my trip to India. The Festival started at 13:00, with a very nice mix of bands. I particularly enjoyed Hot Hot Heat, the Rakes, Queens of the Stoneage and the Smashing Pumpkins, but was also positively surprised by Duran Duran and Modest Mouse, which were much better than I had expected.


The Rakes at V Festival

On my last day in Perth, I met Morgan, whose brother Evan is a friend of mine from Tübingen. Morgan went to a great effort to make sure I enjoyed my day. He took a day off work and told me many inside stories about Perth and in particular Kings Park, which his company had helped creating.


Treetop walk in Kings Park

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Zwischen meinen zwei grossen Ausflügen nach Alice Springs und Perth hatte ich endlich mal wieder ein ruhiges Wochenende in Canberra. Charlotte hatte zwar vorgehabt mich zu besuchen, aber sie brauchte dann etwas Recovery from their own trips, so I'll probably not see again can, because for me the season is here, too slowly to an end.

The weekend really took off with a nice tour of the local size " The Taken," which played before a small audience in the "Pot Belly".


The Taken

On Sunday, I went with Michael and Meg in the mountains around Canberra. We climbed a mountain, where there have been a few years ago a huge forest fire that has made it to the German news. The fascinating thing about the forest fires in Australia, how quickly the eucalyptus forest can regenerate here. Many of the trees are knocked out again from a completely blackened trunk, or have new offshoot formed, so that some already look exactly needs to recognize the damage. The adjacent coniferous forest on the other hand has completely disappeared.


forest near Canberra

the evening I finally put it once again managed in a church service in the strikingly good St Matthew's Angican Church where it has given me this time around well liked, with great music , a sermon appealing, exciting guests, and a very inviting atmosphere.

Another highlight of the week I was still in another concert, namely, the Black Crowes, who played in Canberra, and again in a half-filled room. Martin and Mel had bought two tickets too much and was glad he could still at least one of them to pass on to me. The band was expected, well, only they have played mainly new songs. Martin knew about a third of it, I knew only one song that was a little sad.