For music and documentary lovers: here's the place to support the series.

Bought their CD last month and couldn't stop to listen especially to the song above (minus the orchestra, yet just great). Too bad I don't have the suitable gadget to install this.

----> stumbled upon this today

It's been almost three weeks since I'm back home, yet I'm
still in the travelling mood. Not sure, either I've ever told
you, that the connection from this city to other places are
quite bad. Travelling with the train is a pain - no direct
connection to bigger cities and/or quite expensive.



Luckily I discovered a new alternative to travel: by bus
(while regular long distance buses are not so unusual in
other countries, it is in Germany up till now. Everything'll
change in 2013 though - yayy for that!).





I've been to Munich twice since then. The first time was
to test the bus connection and visiting some interesting
places (this place among others). I also managed to visit
the lithography days and met Eva and Antok there, even
if it was only for a short while. One thing I regretted, that
I didn't manage that weekend: an exhibition.



It was the reason for my second travel to Munich today.
It might sound crazy to travel approx. 7 hours by bus
only to visit an exhibition, but all I can tell is, that it was
worth the effort. It was one of the most inspiring exhibition
I've ever visited - he is an inspiring person!



I hope, you all had a great weekend as well.

(All photos are taken today. I didn't took much photos
the last time - only photos of the gray sky and clouds ;))

Phew, two months silence. My life was pretty stressful in
July. The vacation was then well needed. It started (and
ended) with a not so great experience with the train. But the
sky was amazing that day - through the tainted train window
it looked nearly surreal.

And (much) later, we saw a rainbow circle. I'm literally
over the clouds!



In the first week I had to struggle with jet lag - couldn't
sleep or getting awake in the middle of the night. Even in
the second week I was still very tired. So, we only did
some day tours around Melbourne - Great Ocean Road,
Melbourne Zoo, Ballarat, Olinda (yummy pie!), etc.



My brother drove us around patiently (thanks, dude!) and
since he knew, I love art & craft, he took me to the
craft shows at St. Kilda and at the Melbourne Art Centre.
Craft Cubed was also on going when we were there, that
I got the chance to visit some studios during their open studio
time - e.g. this studio showed us, how they print on their
Heidelberg machine. They even handed out the results to
the guests. I was excited - you know, how I love letterpress
prints. This studio gallery got some lovely print works and
they kindly pointed me out to the next gallery too. Actually,
some days later I came back to Fitzroy, because there are
many interesting smaller stores around.



Once we went to the city too. I didn't really like it though -
too crowded. The only good thing was these guys. Look
at this video - how could one not like them ;)



But the best of all is at my parent's home. My mom and my
sister in law spoiled us with Indonesian food. My son, who
loves fruits, could eat different kind of citrus fruit from the
garden - kumquat, lemon, lemonade, etc. The chili and some
other ingredients for cooking are also from the garden. And
of course there are orchids, succulents and other plants. My
father has a very green thumb.



I really enjoyed the vacation. It's a balance between relaxing,
crafting (yup, got my fingers on mom's sewing machine :))
and action. If you are interested, please check my gallery for
more photos.

I hope, you all had (or are still having) a great summer too!

BTW, Maki has posted the result of her Japan project and
reported her visit in Japan. The project is still on-going.