13.7.2009 von plepe.

In the beginning it seems it will never come to an end … but finally time is racing to the last days. I would have had time to travel around - but actually I was tired of traveling - especially traveling alone. But for the last weekend I got invited by friends - Samantha and Mladen - to Karadere, a beautiful wild beach on the Black Sea coast between Varna and Burgas. I didn’t take me a lot of thought to decide to join - you shouldn’t miss such opportunities.

We went there with a fully stuffed car - us, our equipment and half a band equipment (amplifieres, speakers and wires) - which took us twelve hours (double the estimated time), because we stopped in several places to pick up stuff or meet people.

The beach was just great - no hotels, not even houses, no electricity, no water, no mobile phone; just a bunch of people camping and having a good time. The water of the Black Sea is very nice - clear, warm and not very salty. We enjoyed the days hanging on the beach, reading, playing, swimming and talking, the evening doing barbecue, eating salad and drinking rakia - the nights doing a jam session - live music, powered by the battery of our car.

If you want to experience this too … my friends will organize a little festival on that beach  for beginning of August (and later to a street festival in Istanbul). I want to go there again next year.

Karadere - one of the last wild beaches on the Black Sea coast

Jam session - Samantha on the drums, Mladen on the mic

Sun rise after a long night - what’s better to go for a swim?

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19.11.2008 von plepe.

What had I done in my almost twenty years? - The Chariot of Time, Yuri Medvedev

The last meme in internet culture:
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

This book was just lying on the table next to my laptop because I found it in my (new) room, and apparently it belongs to nobody - a good reason to read it.

To say something about the sentence: I already done a bit more then twenty years, but I’m still quite satisfied with it. But to really engage in this question now would be too much :)

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15.10.2008 von plepe.

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1.10.2008 von plepe.

I just had a heavenly apparition. As I was waiting at the traffic lights to turn green, the lettering “58 Mariagrün” was appearing in front of my eyes. First I couldn’t believe what my eyes tried to tell me so I looked closer and it was really a bus from Graz.
For those who don’t know, Mariagrün is the place in Graz where I grew up and where I still visit my mother regularily. And the bus 58 is the bus from the Train Station to home. To see it at such a remote place was really a surprise.

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24.9.2008 von plepe.

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18.9.2008 von plepe.

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