STUFF YOU FIND...

In New York you find all kinds of things.

It's not the clubs and rooftop bars and the shopping that i love about New York. I just love to walk around and take pictures of all the crazy people and the crazy shit you see in the streets.(ah yeah and the food, i love the food)

Go to some flea markets(this one is at the Brooklyn Flea market). I thought it was funny, "Bush Family Values" next to a skull+crossbones. Nice!!

"Hail Piggy!" or sumthing! I just found it funny what some people put in front of their restaurants. People seem to be obsessed with animals in uniform or clothes or whatever. Lucky this one isn't holding a bunch of sausages as they sometimes do..

And my favourite flea market find this year.. What are these?! Little fuck dolls or what? My opinion is still swaying between hilariously cute and kinda creepy! Btw, their pants were already pulled down. Great selling point, i get it!

I ♥ QUEENS

Last year when i went to Queens i totally didn't like it. Just got off at a random stop and it obviously wasn't the right one.

So, this year we tried again..

And we ended up at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

It was fucking awesome!! I totally loved it!

You get to see all these remnants and ruins from the 1939-40 and 1964-65 New York World's Fairs. It's just totally amazing and space age.

Some space age observation towers.

This is pretty awesome! Time capsules!

"Buried alongside the 1938 capsule, this container holds an additional 50,000 microfilm pages, tranquilizers, one checkered bikini, credit cards, a fifty-star American flag, tektite, Beatles record "A Hard Day's Night" birth control pills, plastic wrap material from Echo II satellite, Kent filter cigarettes, detergent, freeze dried foods, irradiated seeds, a plastic heart valve, an electric toothbrush, and desalted Pacific Ocean water."

 The New York Hall of Science.

Yeah, so overall i would really recommend this as a destination if you want to see something a bit different on your next trip to New York. I'll be back!

I Miss The Freaks

Sometimes i miss NYC. I wish i could just pack up my bags and go there now.
I like the freaks. And i miss them.

Sometimes i see people running around the streets there, shouting or wearing the craziest things or just doing really random shit. I love it. It's so entertaining. 

Even the window displays in the shops are so fun! Old shops, weird shops, random shit. Whatever. I like to just walk around and check out the people and the buildings and all the shops.

Some of the shops look like they're stuck with a window display from like decades ago. Some look like the person doing the window is slightly disturbed.

Ah yeah, and one of the best times we had in NYC was at the Upper East Side at this deli and there were all these cookie old people and i just had such a great time(no photos though, i try to be polite). Man, if i was living there, this would be my local hangout.

Now i have to just scratch all the money together i can so i can go back there soon enough.

What are your favourite places? And why?

Picnics, Shooting, Easter Bunnies

Went to Perth over Easter, this year i was lucky, normally my Birthday is during the week, this year it was on a Saturday AND on the Easter weekend. I never work on my Birthday, it's the rule. And i also decided i'd like to go away for it. So last year we went to Tasmania and this year we went to Perth.

Lots of building going on in Perth, half the city is a construction site, no joke!

We have been wanting to go to Perth for Years. It's ridiculous! We even wanted to move here about 3 years ago, but then we didn't. I'm glad we didn't, i'm not a small town girl, small city.., same thing.

Anyways, i liked Perth, it's nice. It's a picnic city, it has lots of nice gardens and parks and the beaches aren't far and very beautiful. Busy with surfers though, which is ridiculous because the waves are really small and shitty and crash right at the beach, but whatever, they gotta know, pretty pathetic display though.

 That's me playing around with the target

So we went to the local shooting range for a day. We wanted to do that for years too, finally crossed that off our list. We shot 2 different guns, shotgun and a 9mm semi-automatic, it was great fun but i was nearly shitting myself when i heard the guns go off the first couple of times. Fuckin scary!!

Guns are bolted in so you don't fucking shoot your head off by accident

Then we went to Fremantle, it was pretty shit, around the harbour/beach where they have the lookout thing it was quite nice. But all in all pretty fuckin boring! I got a nice ice cream though, Nutella and milk/cherry. So i was somewhat content.

 Nice park at Fremantle/Harbour

Perth has a really nice, really wide river, which is much cleaner then the shitty, dirty Yarra river we got in Melbourne. It looks like a bay, that's how wide it is. Yeah, Perth is a cool chill city to relax and have picnics and even go out at night to some of the bars in the cooler parts of the town.

A disgusting weird thing that looked like it's been around for at least 500 million years that we found near Perth river

On my birthday we had a picnic(what else), a drive through the hip suburbs, a couple of walks and then went to one of my friend's houses, she invited me for dinner. That was really nice and it was great meeting people there, makes it more personal.

 And some pretty crude Easter window decoration

We had a nice Easter, i hope you did too. What you do?

NYC

Went to NYC for 3 weeks, just came back a bit over a week ago, already seems like ages ago that i went, every day that passes it becomes more of a memory and less of a reality.

It's a shame, i really really like NYC. Living in the sticks(Melbourne suburbs) isn't exactly a natural habitat for me. Nevertheless..

I love NY coz it's got so many freaks and noise and cars and awesome buildings and all the cultural stuff and of course shopping. It's awesome.

Here are some pictures.
First one is LA, Santa Monica Beach, we flew over Auckland and LA.

Next one is the view of the park from our hotel room. Lovely isn't it?!

The common sight of some sort of steel bridge/building concoction. We did a cruise circling Manhattan, it took 3 hours, by the end of it i was really cranky and tired. But i took lots of pictures of bridges.

Love the park of course, what would Manhattan be without it?! Pretty ugly i reckon.

And another view from the water, nice buildings..

I will post some more soon, got a new computer now, so should be on here more often.

Bye then.

TEXTURES OF TASMANIA

As i said in my last post, we had a little treat planned for my birthday.

So we went to Tasmania for 4 days, last weekend.

It was quite cold and raining a lot.

I wasnt impressed, but it was ok. And i quite liked getting out of here.

Tasmania is quite redneck, the towns are small and the nature is pretty and probably nicer to travel in summer.

We spent my birthday in Launceston, its very small and it was very rainy and windy. 

The prettiest thing there is the Gorge, its worth going to, got lots of walking tracks and chair lifts and stuff. Thats where i took most of those pictures.

I only took pictures on the 1st day coz then my memory stick was full with 330 pictures and i cudnt buy a new one, no shops open on Sunday and no computer. So only one day.

I like Hobart and surroundings, very interesting historically, convicts and stuff and the day we went there it was really nice and sunny.(more about that later)

Lots of animals roaming around Tasmania, the streets and the sky. Lots of roadkill too. Sad.

Because of the weather my favourite pastime was checking out old candy stores and i scored quite some treats there.

WEEKEND TRIP

Over Easter we went to Adelaide. It was very nice. Much better then i expected. But then i have lowered my expectations considerably. When it comes to travel and in general. But Adelaide was nice.

buildings near the river

We drove there. It was nice to see the country again, at least for the first 4 hours.

fountain on the river

Adelaide has a lot of food, especially around Gouger Street, where we stayed and ate out every night. Lots of Chinese restaurants but you can find other stuff too.

South Australian Museum

We went to the Adelaide Museum.

something scratching its back at the South Australian museum

And the Art Gallery. 

the Big Mother/Art Gallery of South Australia

And to the Immigration Museum too.

kids clothing in the Immigration Museum

My feet hurt SO much by the end of the day, the first night i could barely stand up to go to dinner.

Interesting statement in the Immigration Museum

On Sunday we went to the Glenelg Beach, which was pretty nice, some shade and lots of families around having picnics. Not like St.Kilda Beach in Melbourne, which is mostly infested by junkies and backpackers.

Lion welcoming you at the South Australian Museum

Then we went to the Barossa Valley, where they got vineyards and tree lined country roads and stuff. Pretty. Lots of German immigration history there too. If you are into those sort of things, its the place to go.

weird mask at the South Australian Museum(imagine wearing that, urgh)

Ah, yeah, on the way to Adelaide, we also had a stopover in Hahndorf. Its some sort of Bavarian/German looking tourist village, where you can buy shit, like fancy sausages and gift baskets and eat pretzels. Well worth it.

random Hahndorf picture

Since i decided to limit my time in Australia now, i kinda wanna see it all before i leave. Its always a question of money and time tho. Next stop is Tasmania, that shud be nice too.
                                          

another random Hahndorf picture

HOT AND BOTHERED

Thanks to all my blogger friends for being so patient with me!!(coz update a bit late)

We had the heat wave here last week(45C/115F) -no fun at all, i can tell u!

Especially without AC!!

Anyways i survived, just about, by staying in my cave the whole day(which i do most of the time anyways).

Also, i had problems uploading some pictures onto my blog the other day and that wasnt funny at all, coz i was overheated and im never in a good mood when im put under pressure(heat) and tested like that(pictures).

But anyways, the pictures are from NZ(New Zealand) where we went a while ago and i think they are quite refreshing.



Here are a couple of facts/observations on the heat and me( and i guess people in general).

-There is not much u can think about when it hits 40C, its survival/cooling down mode
-blood pressure is high(thats what i think) and ur brain is like somebody is poking needles into it, u get very annoyed very quickly, luckily ure too lethargic to act on it tho, most of the time). i cud have smashed something when i cudnt upload my pictures onto my blog, but im not that stupid and crazy
-sewing, taking pictures in wool dresses, being locked out of ur house with no money, keys, sunscreen or anything and ur partner coming home in 13 hours is not a good idea(i didnt, but my imagination was working overtime!)
-Auto-pilot time

-everytime i got up i felt my temples pounding against my head and terribly dizzy
-we were in the german news -Yay, famous!
-why is it if the temperatue is 10C below our body temperature, we are comfortable, but if it acctually IS our body temperature, we are freaking out(most of us) let alone 5 degrees above it?




-in my home town it was 27 below 2 weeks ago, not sure if that was record, but here were about 45 degrees(and lets not talk outback here) than that makes about 70 degrees difference,
imagine experiencing a temperature difference like that in a second, that wud be crazy!!

Well im not doing too well in the heat, dishevelled wud describe my state pretty well, but i persevered.
This week i was/am tired, coz im getting up really early now, but thats good, more time to do stuff!

Thanks for reading!



The pictures are taken at the Huka Falls on the north island and Milford Sound on the bottom of the south island, the last picture is the fjord meeting the Tasman sea, quite amazing!:)

WATER, SNOW AND TEARS AND NZ

Hey, welcome to my new followers and hello to everyone else of curz too!

I just came back from 2 weeks nz(new zealand), thats where my boyfriend is from and it was nice!

Pretty much like australia to me, culturally, and some great nature in some parts!

Took some holiday pictures, here are a few!
(Just if u are wondering 'Water, Snow and Tears' thats how i named the pictures, have a great day!)