Hello World!

It took me quite a long time to set this blog up, I actually had some problems with the background (and media in general) and I'm still not too thrilled about the current one but I thought I should finally start blogging...so here it is!

What happend to me the last three weeks? Well, a lot. :) Much more than I could fit into one post. So I decided to give you a short summary and post in the next time in a non-chronological order about my past adventures, while I go on with hopefully more regular posts about what happened recently. ;)

I headed to Essen (sounds more delicious than it is) on the 18th of October to the Boardgame Convention "Spiel" with three friends. After that I went to Frankfurt, where I spent two nights before I took off to Melbourne. After 22 hours of flight I arrived in this amazing city, which is said to be the Australian San Francisco (and it actually has some very, very (one more time: very) obvious things in common). I've been here since then, but maybe I'll fly to Tasmania on Wednesday...you know, quite some time 'till then (and yes I'm a little bit spontaneous (= ).

A quick overview about Melbourne:

• The people here speak actually English and not Australian-mumble-until-no-one-understands-you--dialect, so no communication problems yet (at least not too many).
• So many lovely and cool people, so many opportunities, so much to see, so much to do...you can imagine: I've got too many appointments every day...
• Melbourne is said to be a Coffee-Metropole...anyone ever heard of that?? Me neither...
• I haven't seen a Kangaroo yet, beside a dead one in the museum, but I think that doesn't count
• This is one of the greenest city I've ever been to, in terms of parks and trees and plant-stuff
• Gratifies. Wonderful ones. Everywhere.  
• Beer is expensive (and if I say expensive I talk about prices like four times as high as in Austria!) -.-
• The weather is nearly the same as in Vienna (changing from day to day, sometimes rainy, sometimes sunny, sometimes both...so it feels quite homelike)
• The first three things that Austria is referred to here are:
• Sound of Music (WHY??)
• Mozart
• Hitler (but, never fear, Fritzl comes shortly after that ;))
• It's big
• You can actually use the public toilets without catching a disease

Oh, and of course, last but not least: The beach is wonderful and next to the city. ;)

Technical stuff: You can follow my blog via email-notification or via RSS-feed, both in the sidebar on the left side. Or you do it old-school-like: leave a tab with my blog always open and press every few minutes F4 ;)

Personal stuff: I'm looking forward to emails from you about what's going on in Europe! Or leave a comment or stay in touch via Skype! I promise the next posts will come faster than this one! ;)
I miss you all!

By the way, the timezone here is GMT+10...so have a good night!