Thursday, October 18, 2012
hold up
I have a whole heap of stuff to blog about, so will get onto it this weekend. Sorry for the absence, loyal readers....
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Instagram Party
Shazam, imma let you finish, but Instagram is the best app of all time.
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Review: The Temper Trap- Hammersmith Apollo
4 October 2012
London's Hammersmith Apollo has been home to many famous bands over the years, from The Beatles, to Kings of Leon and David Bowie. Tonight however, the stage well and truly belonged to the Australian four-piece The Temper Trap. The band, who now call London home, played a good selection of tracks from their two albums, on this tour supporting their second, self-titled record.
Lead singer Dougy Mandagi's voice and the impressive lighting were incredible right from the first song, the fitting London's Burning, and the audience knew immediately they were in for a good time.
Standout tracks included the new Need Your Love, Science of Fear, and the old favourite Fader, which got the second loudest cheer, the loudest of course going to Sweet Disposition.
The band played Love Lost surprisingly early in the set, unusual considering most bands play their fan favourites towards the end, to keep the punters in their seats.
The boys needn't have worried though, the combination of bass player Jonathon Aherne's amazing dancing, Dougy's on-stage persona and the quality of the songs and musicianship kept the audience swaying right until the end.
The instrumental track, The Drum Song, was the highlight, with the whole band coming together as one, and Dougy's pouring of water onto his drum skin, giving a unique effect when hit, made the crowd go wild.
Although a few tracks were missing from the setlist, Rest and Fools among them, the audience greeted each song with immense cheering and clapping, and the amount of people singing along made it clear these fans knew the band well. Anyone standing in the foyer before the show couldn't help but notice the amount of Australians present, and The Temper Trap (with the boomerang attached to Dougy's mic stand) bought a little piece of home to London.
Setlist:
London's Burning
Need Your Love
Love Lost
The Sea is Calling
Rabbit Hole
Fader
This Isn't Happiness
Trembling Hands
Miracle
Science of Fear
Resurrection
Drum Song
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Soldier On
Sweet Disposition
London's Hammersmith Apollo has been home to many famous bands over the years, from The Beatles, to Kings of Leon and David Bowie. Tonight however, the stage well and truly belonged to the Australian four-piece The Temper Trap. The band, who now call London home, played a good selection of tracks from their two albums, on this tour supporting their second, self-titled record.
Lead singer Dougy Mandagi's voice and the impressive lighting were incredible right from the first song, the fitting London's Burning, and the audience knew immediately they were in for a good time.
Standout tracks included the new Need Your Love, Science of Fear, and the old favourite Fader, which got the second loudest cheer, the loudest of course going to Sweet Disposition.
The band played Love Lost surprisingly early in the set, unusual considering most bands play their fan favourites towards the end, to keep the punters in their seats.
The boys needn't have worried though, the combination of bass player Jonathon Aherne's amazing dancing, Dougy's on-stage persona and the quality of the songs and musicianship kept the audience swaying right until the end.
The instrumental track, The Drum Song, was the highlight, with the whole band coming together as one, and Dougy's pouring of water onto his drum skin, giving a unique effect when hit, made the crowd go wild.
Although a few tracks were missing from the setlist, Rest and Fools among them, the audience greeted each song with immense cheering and clapping, and the amount of people singing along made it clear these fans knew the band well. Anyone standing in the foyer before the show couldn't help but notice the amount of Australians present, and The Temper Trap (with the boomerang attached to Dougy's mic stand) bought a little piece of home to London.
Setlist:
London's Burning
Need Your Love
Love Lost
The Sea is Calling
Rabbit Hole
Fader
This Isn't Happiness
Trembling Hands
Miracle
Science of Fear
Resurrection
Drum Song
---------------------------
Soldier On
Sweet Disposition
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
A Birthday and an Anniversary
I've said it before and I'll say it again, time goes so fast. I've already been in my dorm for a week (hence the one week anniversary), I feel like I've done a lot in that time!
First of all, my room. Since I posted those last pictures I have been to Ikea, so it's a bit different now! I've decorated the wall with a huge map of London (see Birthday), new bed sheets and some re-arranging of furniture. Don't worry, I'm definitely getting new curtains. It feels a bit more at home now, I've just got to fill it with knick knacks and 'stuff' then it'll be perfect. If anyone was thinking of visiting an staying with me, you can see I have minimal space, but you could curl up in the shower or something.
Next, London! I've done a fair bit of exploring already, as I have a lot of time on my hands, no job and uni doesn't start until Monday! I've been to:
•Columbia Road Flower Markets, so amazing, a street lined with Cockneys trying to get you to buy their flowers "you should be mobbin' us at these pwices", and one that Mary heard once "so cheap you can buy 'em for a bird you don' even like!
•Victoria & Albert Museum Lates, which is a Friday every month, no kids allowed, and you can look at all the exhibitions whilst drinking wine, and they have unusual demonstrations, like hula hooping. The museum is an art and design one so it has some very cool exhibits.
• Shopping on Oxford Street. This is crazy and a bit stressful but you can get anything you could ever want here.
• More markets: Covent Garden, Spitalfields and Brick Lane.
Between my London Lonely Planet, and my two new books, the London Coffee Guide 2012 (see Birthday), and the London Style Guide, I have a long list of things to do, and I will keep you duly informed of how I'm going.
BIRTHDAY
21! 21! Had a great day in my new home, the first half was spent opening cards from parents and grandparents (thank you once again for their contents!), skyping Brittany, and shopping. I looked around Oxford Street and spent a good hour at the huge Piccadilly Waterstones (5 levels of books) and bought myself some gifts! I got a jumper, some jeans, the London Style Guide and a Moroccan Arabic phrase book for my upcoming trip to Morocco! I then met Mary and Malesa at The Wolseley for lunch, which is a very fancy restaurant in the heart of London, and the fact their wasn't a celebrity there when we were was rare! Last time we walked past and saw Michael Parkinson having a spot of lunch, it's the type of place where you take one sip of your water and the waiter refills your glass. So anyway, I sat down and had gifts rained upon me by Mary; the coffee guide, the lovely map, a gluten and dairy free cupcake, and some bacon jam (it's delicious)! Thank you again Mary for my gifts I love them! I ate the chopped chicken salad and some
chips, and the girls hot eggs hollandaise. Then, after I asked for the bill, the waiter said "I'll see what I can do", then he came back and laid out some knives, which made me a giggly and wandering what was about to happen, then they bought out a plate of macarons (how did they know!?) and presented me with The Wolseley breakfast recipe book, which they had signed happy birthday on the inside cover! And all the waiters were wishing me happy birthday and I was embarrassed but chuffed at the same time! Afterwards Malesa and I went to Whole Foods Market, which is a mecca for people who like food and have food allergies (*ahem*), and wandered around London some more. I was knackered at the end of the day, but I still had two more presents. A) a call from Mum and Dad who got to Manchester that day. They're coming up to London next week, THANK GOD, they have my computer after all. And B) I read Jacinta's blog post she wrote for me! I haven't seen her since she left for New York in November last year, and I miss her a lot. After I read the post I think the room got all dusty because my eyes were watering, weird huh. Thanks J.
Lots of exciting things coming up, I'm seeing Temper Trap (again) tomorrow, Freshers Fair on Friday, classes start Monday, Joni and Sophie get to London Tuesday, Mum and Dad get to London Thursday, (probably) watching England play San Marino at Wembley Stadium Friday, seeing the Michael Jackson musical Saturday, and going back to Manchester with M&D the following weekend! So expect some blogs X
First of all, my room. Since I posted those last pictures I have been to Ikea, so it's a bit different now! I've decorated the wall with a huge map of London (see Birthday), new bed sheets and some re-arranging of furniture. Don't worry, I'm definitely getting new curtains. It feels a bit more at home now, I've just got to fill it with knick knacks and 'stuff' then it'll be perfect. If anyone was thinking of visiting an staying with me, you can see I have minimal space, but you could curl up in the shower or something.
Next, London! I've done a fair bit of exploring already, as I have a lot of time on my hands, no job and uni doesn't start until Monday! I've been to:
•Columbia Road Flower Markets, so amazing, a street lined with Cockneys trying to get you to buy their flowers "you should be mobbin' us at these pwices", and one that Mary heard once "so cheap you can buy 'em for a bird you don' even like!
•Victoria & Albert Museum Lates, which is a Friday every month, no kids allowed, and you can look at all the exhibitions whilst drinking wine, and they have unusual demonstrations, like hula hooping. The museum is an art and design one so it has some very cool exhibits.
• Shopping on Oxford Street. This is crazy and a bit stressful but you can get anything you could ever want here.
• More markets: Covent Garden, Spitalfields and Brick Lane.
Between my London Lonely Planet, and my two new books, the London Coffee Guide 2012 (see Birthday), and the London Style Guide, I have a long list of things to do, and I will keep you duly informed of how I'm going.
BIRTHDAY
21! 21! Had a great day in my new home, the first half was spent opening cards from parents and grandparents (thank you once again for their contents!), skyping Brittany, and shopping. I looked around Oxford Street and spent a good hour at the huge Piccadilly Waterstones (5 levels of books) and bought myself some gifts! I got a jumper, some jeans, the London Style Guide and a Moroccan Arabic phrase book for my upcoming trip to Morocco! I then met Mary and Malesa at The Wolseley for lunch, which is a very fancy restaurant in the heart of London, and the fact their wasn't a celebrity there when we were was rare! Last time we walked past and saw Michael Parkinson having a spot of lunch, it's the type of place where you take one sip of your water and the waiter refills your glass. So anyway, I sat down and had gifts rained upon me by Mary; the coffee guide, the lovely map, a gluten and dairy free cupcake, and some bacon jam (it's delicious)! Thank you again Mary for my gifts I love them! I ate the chopped chicken salad and some
chips, and the girls hot eggs hollandaise. Then, after I asked for the bill, the waiter said "I'll see what I can do", then he came back and laid out some knives, which made me a giggly and wandering what was about to happen, then they bought out a plate of macarons (how did they know!?) and presented me with The Wolseley breakfast recipe book, which they had signed happy birthday on the inside cover! And all the waiters were wishing me happy birthday and I was embarrassed but chuffed at the same time! Afterwards Malesa and I went to Whole Foods Market, which is a mecca for people who like food and have food allergies (*ahem*), and wandered around London some more. I was knackered at the end of the day, but I still had two more presents. A) a call from Mum and Dad who got to Manchester that day. They're coming up to London next week, THANK GOD, they have my computer after all. And B) I read Jacinta's blog post she wrote for me! I haven't seen her since she left for New York in November last year, and I miss her a lot. After I read the post I think the room got all dusty because my eyes were watering, weird huh. Thanks J.
Lots of exciting things coming up, I'm seeing Temper Trap (again) tomorrow, Freshers Fair on Friday, classes start Monday, Joni and Sophie get to London Tuesday, Mum and Dad get to London Thursday, (probably) watching England play San Marino at Wembley Stadium Friday, seeing the Michael Jackson musical Saturday, and going back to Manchester with M&D the following weekend! So expect some blogs X
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Welcome To My Lair
This is for my mother who has requested some photos of my 'digs', as she calls them.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The End and the Start
NUMBERS:
Planes: 16
Trains: 9
Buses: 13
Countries: 11
Cities: 34
Postcards: 35
Days: 101
Famous festivals:
2 out of 3
(La Tomatina and Oktoberfest. Running of the Bulls, maybe next time)
Years of planning:
6 (not constant, obviously)
Scars: 1.
It adds character though, makes me look really dangerous and mysterious, like James Bond, or Robbie Williams.
Number of times pickpocketed:
0 (surprising)
Number of hospital visits:
0 (more suprising)
Strange characters met:
Many. Coco Gold takes the cake.
Lovely new normal friends:
Lots and lots! Looking forward to seeing some again, and although I may not see some ever again, I will look at their Facebook status' and smile.
Cities I Missed:
A lot. Too many.
Memories: (all alone in the moonlight). Heaps and heaps. Some of them are classics, like looking out at Paris from
the top of the Eiffel Tower, some are hilarious, like Joni's burp, some sad, like the many many beggars we saw, some freaky like Sophie's sleep talking! She has no idea she's doing it, but more nights than not she would talk, ranging from "oh cool you should go there" to "NO NO NO GET OUT GET OUT" which is not something you want to wake up hearing in a slightly dingy hostel. Kanye West & Jay-Z blew my
mind! Harry Potter World! So many. However, all of the memories are very special and I'll never forget them. So soppy!
Favourite place/s:
Paris. San Sebastian. Lisbon. Barcelona. London.
Least favourite places:
Don't be silly!
(Siena)
Score out of 10 for choice of travelling buddies:
10. Claire, Soph and Joni were the perfect people to travel with, and the memories from our adventures will always be in my heart! Claire, I missed you for the rest of the trip, and think you would have loved lots of the places I went after you left. If you wanna go travelling with me again, I'll check my diary and see what I can do. Also you'll be proud to know I think we went to every possible H&M in every city we went to.
JB and Corn, you made my birthday amazing, you pretended to laugh at my jokes, and even though I think a third of my lungs are clogged up with methane from your bodies, I had an amazing time, and am really jealous I'm not going to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague and Vienna with you.
Also, a huge thank you to Mary, who we stayed with for free (!) in London, who took a week off work to show us the sights, which proved she should be a tour guide, and who was just genuinely lovely and spoilt Claire and I!
Food score out of 10:
10 + 10 + 10 + 100000000.
I split the food memories into two, with dairy and without dairy. With dairy was inevitably better, it included French Camembert cheese eaten underneath the Eiffel tower, about 15kg of gelato, good proper fresh cows milk chocolate, and, my favourite, macarons. Favourite foods places include: Laudree in Paris, Jamie's Kitchen in London, and Helmut Newcake, the gluten-free bakery in Paris. Without dairy was a lot healthier, at one stage I had turned into a rice cracker. Seriously. A bit got stuck in my leggings on the back of my thigh? Sophie laughed. I hurried to the bathroom. I did get increasingly jealous of Sophie and Joni's obsession with Frozen Yoghurt. I should include beverages in here as well, we developed an unfortunate habit of waking up in the morning having drunk the whole bottle of vodka we'd planned on splitting over 2 nights. Sigh.
This trip has made me realise I want to do something with food! Alas, my dream of travelling food writer is out as I'm restricted to lettuce and soy milk, but I do have something else in mind!
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ENGLAND
London. Manchester. Birmingham.
POLAND
Krakow.
ITALY
Rome, Venice, Florence, Siena, Orvieto, Pisa.
GERMANY
Munich.
SPAIN
Valencia. Madrid. Barcelona. San Sebastian. Ibiza.
CROATIA
Split. Hvar. Mljet. Dubrovnik. Korcula. Makarska. Brac.
SWITZERLAND
Lauterbrunnen. Lucerne.
PORTUGAL
Lisbon. Lagos.
FRANCE
Paris. Bordeaux. Nice. Avignon.
MONACO
Monte Carlo.
I can't believe it's over, I left Perth about 3 1/2 months ago and it seems like 2 weeks! But it's not actually over, I'm in my uni dorm room right now, but will save all that for another post. Also, even though the travelling is over I think I'll still keep doing the blog. I like it, and it's good practice, and my audience just bloody loves it. Or so I tell myself. I promise not to start writing about boring stuff like how the bus driver pointed out that my shoelace was undone. <-- that didn't happen.
X
Planes: 16
Trains: 9
Buses: 13
Countries: 11
Cities: 34
Postcards: 35
Days: 101
Famous festivals:
2 out of 3
(La Tomatina and Oktoberfest. Running of the Bulls, maybe next time)
Years of planning:
6 (not constant, obviously)
Scars: 1.
It adds character though, makes me look really dangerous and mysterious, like James Bond, or Robbie Williams.
Number of times pickpocketed:
0 (surprising)
Number of hospital visits:
0 (more suprising)
Strange characters met:
Many. Coco Gold takes the cake.
Lovely new normal friends:
Lots and lots! Looking forward to seeing some again, and although I may not see some ever again, I will look at their Facebook status' and smile.
Cities I Missed:
A lot. Too many.
Memories: (all alone in the moonlight). Heaps and heaps. Some of them are classics, like looking out at Paris from
the top of the Eiffel Tower, some are hilarious, like Joni's burp, some sad, like the many many beggars we saw, some freaky like Sophie's sleep talking! She has no idea she's doing it, but more nights than not she would talk, ranging from "oh cool you should go there" to "NO NO NO GET OUT GET OUT" which is not something you want to wake up hearing in a slightly dingy hostel. Kanye West & Jay-Z blew my
mind! Harry Potter World! So many. However, all of the memories are very special and I'll never forget them. So soppy!
Favourite place/s:
Paris. San Sebastian. Lisbon. Barcelona. London.
Least favourite places:
Don't be silly!
(Siena)
Score out of 10 for choice of travelling buddies:
10. Claire, Soph and Joni were the perfect people to travel with, and the memories from our adventures will always be in my heart! Claire, I missed you for the rest of the trip, and think you would have loved lots of the places I went after you left. If you wanna go travelling with me again, I'll check my diary and see what I can do. Also you'll be proud to know I think we went to every possible H&M in every city we went to.
JB and Corn, you made my birthday amazing, you pretended to laugh at my jokes, and even though I think a third of my lungs are clogged up with methane from your bodies, I had an amazing time, and am really jealous I'm not going to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague and Vienna with you.
Also, a huge thank you to Mary, who we stayed with for free (!) in London, who took a week off work to show us the sights, which proved she should be a tour guide, and who was just genuinely lovely and spoilt Claire and I!
Food score out of 10:
10 + 10 + 10 + 100000000.
I split the food memories into two, with dairy and without dairy. With dairy was inevitably better, it included French Camembert cheese eaten underneath the Eiffel tower, about 15kg of gelato, good proper fresh cows milk chocolate, and, my favourite, macarons. Favourite foods places include: Laudree in Paris, Jamie's Kitchen in London, and Helmut Newcake, the gluten-free bakery in Paris. Without dairy was a lot healthier, at one stage I had turned into a rice cracker. Seriously. A bit got stuck in my leggings on the back of my thigh? Sophie laughed. I hurried to the bathroom. I did get increasingly jealous of Sophie and Joni's obsession with Frozen Yoghurt. I should include beverages in here as well, we developed an unfortunate habit of waking up in the morning having drunk the whole bottle of vodka we'd planned on splitting over 2 nights. Sigh.
This trip has made me realise I want to do something with food! Alas, my dream of travelling food writer is out as I'm restricted to lettuce and soy milk, but I do have something else in mind!
--------------------------------------------------
ENGLAND
London. Manchester. Birmingham.
POLAND
Krakow.
ITALY
Rome, Venice, Florence, Siena, Orvieto, Pisa.
GERMANY
Munich.
SPAIN
Valencia. Madrid. Barcelona. San Sebastian. Ibiza.
CROATIA
Split. Hvar. Mljet. Dubrovnik. Korcula. Makarska. Brac.
SWITZERLAND
Lauterbrunnen. Lucerne.
PORTUGAL
Lisbon. Lagos.
FRANCE
Paris. Bordeaux. Nice. Avignon.
MONACO
Monte Carlo.
I can't believe it's over, I left Perth about 3 1/2 months ago and it seems like 2 weeks! But it's not actually over, I'm in my uni dorm room right now, but will save all that for another post. Also, even though the travelling is over I think I'll still keep doing the blog. I like it, and it's good practice, and my audience just bloody loves it. Or so I tell myself. I promise not to start writing about boring stuff like how the bus driver pointed out that my shoelace was undone. <-- that didn't happen.
X
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