: : Music Festivals, more pints puhlease... : :
Friday, August 13, 2004
St Gallen open air and more...
July 9 - The last few weeks have been quite a blur...With the Euro Football going on, its meant that every free night was at the local watching the game, spending copious amounts of cash on over priced beer - and I have to say, all I have to show for it is a lighter wallet, some bad headaches at work and an ugly green Carlsberg cap! In all seriousness though, it was great fun though to be in the pub each night with people from each of the different country teams -Basel is nothing short of a foreigner city, with a few swiss that live here. I have never seen so many blondes in one place as I did when the Swedes and Denmark were playing...
Went to a music festival in St Gallen last weekend. Faithless, Ben Harper, Muse, Black Eyed Peas, The Darkness, Kaizers Orchestra (Suprisingly good norweigians)...
Speaking of which, my Norweigian room-mate moves out this week, his 2 month traineeship finished last week. It will very sad to see him go as in the short time, through many shared experiences we have become very close mates - it is so difficult for him to leave the place and the trainee group, he is looking to find another position in a bank here...
In any event we will be having a kegger for him this weekend at our flat. Its become a small tradition (tradition in such a short time - I guess I mean a regular occurrence that when one of the trainees has a birthday, we have a get together and buy some cheesy presents...We celebrated mine last week.
Anyway the reason I mention this is becase we went for an awesome dinner at my favourite Greek restaraunt, and then watched Greece enter the finals...My presents were bottles of bbq sauce, lighter fluid, a fish grill and a pink apron - all of which we will be testing out this week at the farewell party.....
Next week I will be heading to Turkey to catch up with Latif, a turk now studying in Adelaide - we were on the MC together back in Oz...Anyways, he is home to see his family and is going to host me. We will be staying in Istanbul, but my big hope is to try and see Gallipoli....
