TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

12:26 PM
Posted by jodi rose

sue and marta in edinburgh gardens

Arrived Saturday evening and had a quiet night at home with Philippa - reliving the year I was there. Picnic all day sunday in Edinburgh Gardens, north fitzroy - lovely company, gorgeous sunshine but atmosphere blighted by urban primitives doing there tribal drumming all afternoon. sure they were feeling the rhythm, but for everyone else was obnoxious noise pollution and very unpleasant. and I used to be hippy and at 19 even spent time in the forest of SE NSW protesting about logging, but those days are gone now...
Anyway, I'm glad to have had the chance to say goodbye to Philippa, and help with all the packing and sorting from her house, which was an oasis of lushness and homely delight for my last year in Melbourne. Sad to have her going, but very exciting at the same time, it's so inspiring to see how quickly life can change and you can be off on a new adventure. We're going to be making excursions to the ice hotel in sweden next year, and she's checking out hungarian bathouses for weekend holidays during my various residencies. Just a long hot summer of hard work to go in between now and then.