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My year in Melbourne
From July 1997 I stayed
one year in Melbourne, Australia. I had been working in a project for
quite some time in Sweden, and when the project moved down to Melbourne
because the customer was Telstra I took my chance and followed.
I settled down in a pretty
small appartment in funky Fitzroy, on Moor street just next to lively
Brunswick street. My little appartment even had the smallest little
garden I've ever seen, and my own car port.
I really loved the grungey Brunswick street. A must if you visit the city.
For what must be at least a kilometer, the street is lined with hip little
cafes, restaurants, alternative fashion shops, interior design shops,
book shops open until at least 10, 11 in the evening and heaps of other
strange butiques. I enjoyed just walking down the street Sunday morning,
checking the shops and getting a perfect cafe latte. I've never found
the same athmosphere except perhaps for Venice Beach, LA. The cute picture
is a scanned postcard from one of the shops along the street, called Polyester.
They has a somewhat different range of books then Borders.
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