Wednesday 8 June 2011

Active May

Hey hey,

May is gone, quick as the wind down here in Melbourne.
Winter is knocking on the door here now with chilly winds, cold nights and warm days. Still strange to have the seasons the opposite from what I´m used to.

May was full of different activities - running, climbing, bushwalking, music concert, tango dancing, movies etc...


This was the view the first morning from Moleside camp site during the bushwalking along GSWWT (Great South West Walking Track)


Kangaroo family along the bushwalking trip

Some of the highlights from May was The Cat Empire concert, awesome good concert with lots of good old songs and they even played my favorite song "Tho shoes" :)... if you haven´t heard of The Cat Empire listen to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3nkzjACUG4

During the weekend of May 13-15 I organised my first bushwalking trip within MUMC (Melbourne University Mountaineering Club) to the south west side of Victoria. Me and 6 other walking enthusiastics walked 50km during 2 days, 30km on Saturday and 20km on Sunday. The walk we did was the Great South West Walk, along the Glenelg River from Moleside camp to Nelsons Kiosk in Nelson. I was walking in pain on Sunday since my feet were sore from the day before. One or two leeches got through under my gaiters and when I took of the gaiters on Saturday evening my pants were covered in blood. Luckly I wasn´t in pain and the leeches died after all the blood sucking :)


Happy walkers from left; Taner, Muhammad, Roberto, Sally, Jennifer and me (missing Megan)


Magic sign to look for, some of us did miss the sign but eventually got back to the track


The track took us over to South Australia, so now I've been to all states down under except for WA

While the Spanish Film Festival was in Melbourne I saw two movies, one with Diana and one with Mick. Both movies were really good, especially the "Colours of the mountain" which took place in Colombia.

Since I´ve missed the dancing in my life I started to dance tango back in April and still am once a week. Love the tango, such beautiful music and so suble dance steps. After dancing salsa for a few years it´s hard not the dance with the hips and the tango teacher is still telling me not the use the hips, "this is not salsa, don´t use the hips" :)

Got to see my favorite kids (Oden and Savanha) too during one short afternoon in Werribee. They were happy to see me just like I was happy to see them :)

Time to go to bed, long day awaiting tomorrow!