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12March2011 12:42
lost the hillsbus roulette; getting home is gonna be ugly (@ Town Hall) http://4sq.com/dSq1ZD
12March2011 11:58
enjoyed @sydsymph doing mahler 7; final movement was great, very powerful; plus sayaka shoji on mendelssohn's violin concerto excellent
Travel Log VIII
12March2011
Arrived home yesterday morning; starting the decompression process with a wrap-up post and a run of photos; herein, a final […]
11March2011 22:59
published a final travel log and three sets of holiday photos: http://wintermute.com.au/bits/2011-03/travel-log-viii/
11March2011 11:25
nice dinner and drinks to close out the evening; it's been 52 hours since I woke up in london and now it's time to sleep soundly
10March2011 20:45
stupid bucket thing dived under the car; we had to jack up the car to retrieve it, partly friction-burnt down yfrog.com/h8hpladj
10March2011 19:59
made it back to sydney! only just hitting me how long it's been; am a little bit worried about how warm it is at only 7am
06March2011 21:05
finally saw animal kingdom! had high expectations and was mostly excellent, but ending felt too thrown together, as if unsure how to close
06March2011 14:34
fancy treadmill reported an avg running HR around 180 for half an hour; by its reported scale that should've killed me #somethingbroken
05March2011 20:42
ugh twitter for iphone is really buggy, and I've only been using it a few mins?! new autocomplete and trends features mis-behaving randomly
05March2011 19:35
great breaky so back for dinner (@ Urban Angel Café) http://4sq.com/iak6HS
05March2011 16:29
picked up a couple of french film festival tickets; les petits mouchoirs and des dieux et des hommes both hit my radar while in france
Edinburgh 2011 — A Dream in Masonry and Living Rock
05March2011
Robert Louis Stevenson described the city as "a dream in masonry and living rock"; the quote seemed apt as I wandered the city's streets for a few days in early March 2011, everywhere the influence of the mountains and their exposed rock and the dark local stone that looks so different to the other western European cities I'm used to.
04March2011 15:03
I miss the twang; why I fly qantas RT @tbearosaurus @PeterMHoward just wait till you are once again surrounded by that charming aussie twang
04March2011 14:51
whiskey time! (@ Teuchters) http://4sq.com/dVS21n
04March2011 10:28
in a french cafe in edinburgh surrounded by parisian- and provincial-french speakers; it's confusing my brain; I thought I left paris behind
03March2011 19:44
in edinburgh; had no idea what to expect and am astounded by how beautiful this city is; all cliffs and dark stone and great architecture
03March2011 14:21
on the train to edinburgh; funnily enough 4sq can't locate the train as it passes through the middle of nowhere
03March2011 09:04
LSO's mahler was accompanied by a piece featuring cellist mario brunello; incredibly emotional interpretation; loved his encore solo too
03March2011 09:01
saw LSO perform mahler 9 last night; beautifully poignant piece, delightfully captured — looking forward to @sydsymph doing same in may
01March2011 12:35
about to head home and pack paris into my bag; a daunting prospect; packing to come here was easier, and it's not that I've been shopping
01March2011 11:31
here for one last nice meal (@ Kong) [pic]: http://4sq.com/dPgfu5
Travel Log VII
01March2011
My time in Paris is coming to a close, and I'm once again finding myself ticking off a list of […]
28February2011 14:51
last parisian writing session today; just posted a wrap-up entry I wrote yesterday: http://wintermute.com.au/bits/2011-03/travel-log-vii/
26February2011 15:56
around 52k now and I've the remainder all plotted out; crazy watching it march inexorably towards its conclusion; difficult but v exciting
26February2011 15:42
real (good) martinis in paris! le fumoir, in the 1e; good coffee & atmosphere to boot; probably good for me I didn't find this place earlier
23February2011 16:19
approaching 50k words and just broke my two stories' first acts; more than half the story told tho, so need to re-work the old 3-act outline
17February2011 19:10
on the train about to leave reims for paris; has been an odd couple of days, mixing nostalgia and a little something like revulsion
Reims 2011 — A City That Never Was
17February2011
Revisited Reims in February 2011; snapped photos of a few familiar sights, and many unfamiliar, the city going through a process of renewal that tries to establish a false history for itself.
16February2011 21:17
instead of "let us pray" priest here (written in paris) says, translated, "let us gather our prayers"; I like it; simple, familiar, communal
16February2011 20:26
didn't think mixed waiters could offer good service, nor that reims could offer a great meal; was a pleasant surprise to have one of my best
16February2011 11:34
made it to 40k and to reims; first stop l'apostrophe for lunch and wifi
13February2011 16:44
shooting for 40k over next cpl days, then off to revisit reims wed/thurs
10February2011 16:41
st sulpice, paris http://instagr.am/p/BgntS/
10February2011 16:41
st sulpice, paris
10February2011 16:37
reached 30k words at my halfway thru paris point, took the day off in st germain; watched black swan — awesome but not aronofsky's best