pebble beach in Ireland. 2007.

just arrived back from Sziget (music festival in Hungary). Budapest was an amazingly beautiful city. We spent the week camping and not showering, music was being played somewhere on the terrain 24 hours a day for 7 days. Beer ran from low pressure taps at 380 forents per half litre (about 1.50 euro cents, i think about 2 AUD!) Towards the end of the festival my body simply refused to digest the thoroughly awful and often deep fried food served by lazy and entirely uninterested caterers. I wore sunscreen with an SPF of 10!! it was just as hot as the big day out but i managed not to get sunburnt! There were a few moments of relief from the sun, in which it poured down rain. Try to imagine the 10 000 people camping on an island basically trees and dirt without showering for a week. But on Sziget you get into a different mind set, clean is strange. On one of the days i went with Wouter, Alex and Thys to a Bath House in Budapest. We stepped out of the subway in the middle of a park and into a really massive old building with about 20 pools and saunas all with slightly different temperatures. The first one was freezing cold and the second quite warm, around 34 degrees. The hottest one i think was about 38 degrees. The saunas ranged from 40 to 70 degrees (ugh!). Overall Sziget was definately my best festival experience ever! If i am around next year i'll definately be going!

i haven't updated my blog for a long long time. I have so much news that the task is almost daunting. soon, ik belooft.

In the meantime, last week we went to Hamburg in Germany to see a little australian musician called Darren Hanlon. Venue was tiny and echt gezellig (very cosy). German highways make long drives a little less dull:



There is no speed limit and apparently no need to use indicators. We were in the slow lane at 140 km/h. People passed us at around 180km/h...zoom! This sign frequently provided amusement, atleast for me. It's the exit sign:



Then to the concert, supported by a lovely australian female singer, piccolet (i think):



And then Darren. We spoke after the gig and he signed the set list for me :)

Antwerpen. 2007.

Photos from Antwerpen. 2007.
more to come.

last week i went to antwerpen in belgium. but i'll tell you about it later when i get my photos back from the lab. :) for now, here are some digressions...

Alex and Wouter shooting the forrest. Limburg, NL, 2007.

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Wouter diptych with tree. Limburg, NL, 2007.

my new land camera (polaroid). EE100 Special. new cameras make for giggles and smiles.

Eindhoven.

night pub, amsterdam.

sharks and ducklings in the canals of amsterdam.