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Being dragged around has never been more fun – kitesurfing in St Kilda

#9 – Swallow salt water by trying to kite surf at St Kilda beach, April 12, 2014

While Melbourne is not as blessed with natural beauties as Sydney is, it has a lot to offer in terms of culture, coffee places and life in general. Nevertheless, we have a beach and I like it. One of Harriet’s biggest complaints is, that it is not a surf beach. Fortunately, some clever person came up with an idea of surfing without waves: kitesurfing, which “… combines aspect of aspects of wakeboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding, and gymnastics into one extreme sport”. Maybe calling it an “extreme sport” is taking it too far, but judging by the number of kites that you see on a windy summer afternoon in St Kilda, it seems pretty fun. By the way, just last week I’ve been told that if you want to be part of the in-crew in tech venture funding, it’s no longer enough to wear Happy Socks (that’s so 2012), but you need to be proficient in kitesurfing.

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#64 – Picnic at Hanging Rock

#64 – Practice your landscape photography at Hanging Rock, October 12, 2013

Sometimes it’s nice to reflect on your day when you go to sleep and discover that your day turned out totally different from what you expected when you woke up. It’s fair to say that I’m not the most spontaneous person. Lists run my life and I feel good about it. The fact that this very blog post is part of a list that runs my free time activities for a year should be evidence enough. However, yesterday was one of those instances where I benefited from going with the flow.

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#26 – Spend a weekend in Daylesford

26 – Take the book and spend a weekend in Daylesford to experience the official spa centre of Victoria – August 30, 2013

To get to #26 of the list, you first have to pass #25, buying a book at Hill of Content. Since this blog is written by a German, and German follow rules sehr ordentlich, I’ve been to Hill of Content and bought a book. To be specific, I got Peter Temple’s Truth, a detective story set in Melbourne. Having done the purchase last week on Monday, pressure built up to complete the necessary #26 and to relieve my consciousness of that obligation.

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