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Post by Fredus on Dec 29, 2008 18:36:45 GMT 9.5
Dammit! The Opera on the Alps is on the wrong side of the mountains! My parents live half an hour from Beechworth, but I can't go all the way over there for a weekend...
*sighs*
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Post by Fredus on Dec 29, 2008 18:54:10 GMT 9.5
It is tempting - but I've got to go to Sydney the weekend before and Canberra the weekend after. Lots of driving... I'm going to have to think about it...
Anyone else going?
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Post by Fredus on Dec 29, 2008 19:23:14 GMT 9.5
I have been corrupted a fair bit. I assure you that a few months ago I wouldn't have even considered going to Adelaide to meet up with a group of people I met on the internet (You should have seen my brother's face when I told him about going to LADS. He's certain that one of you will be an axe murderer or stalker or something... XD) And a trip to Beechworth is very tempting.
Although, I was thinking that it might be easier to go to Albury in April to see Don Giovanni.
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Post by Marie-Cris on Dec 29, 2008 19:31:34 GMT 9.5
I wouldn't have considered travelling interstate at all until this lot came along.
Can we still blame Sandy?
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Post by Fredus on Dec 29, 2008 19:38:48 GMT 9.5
I don't think it's anyone in particular. It's just that the general enthusiasm is terribly contagious.  |
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Post by killerbananas on Dec 29, 2008 19:40:58 GMT 9.5
(You should have seen my brother's face when I told him about going to LADS. He's certain that one of you will be an axe murderer or stalker or something... XD) Who says we aren't? I wanted to travel instate, to Sydney actually. Funnily enough, I got my wish, but didn't actually SEE Sydney. Hence why I have to go up for a few days for Mikado. |
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Post by Fredus on Dec 29, 2008 19:59:00 GMT 9.5
I'm hoping you aren't. Fingers crossed... I've spent lots of time in Sydney. I'm far more excited about going to Adelaide. Excited, and petrified. I'm not very good at new places - or new people |
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Post by Marie-Cris on Dec 29, 2008 22:24:08 GMT 9.5
I didn't see much of Melbourne and Sydney either; I don't think you'll have much of a problem seeing anything in Adelaide as ... there's not that much to see full stop. But there's a few things in the CBD; the Art Gallery, Museum, State Library, uni and Botanical Gardens ((violated by naked Bold and the Beautiful stars running through it ... don't ask)) are all on the same side of the main road; a turn in to the more shadowy roads leads you to Rundle Mall ((Beehive Corner = Haigh's)). A further walk will lead you to Central Market / Chinatown ... and the new bus station ... ((the inside decor is modernly sickening and the loading area is dark and creepy; I miss the old one)).
Then of course you can always catch a tram to Gleneg; sun surf and shopping, as they say.
I don't know what other shows will be on at the time apart from Orpheus and possibly Rocky, so that's some more time fillers ... I half wish Warlow would try to meet me at the backstage door after Orpheus one night just so I can walk around the other way and scare the wits out of HIM!
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Sorry about that James.
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Post by Fredus on Dec 30, 2008 18:20:38 GMT 9.5
And Adelaide has the Jam Factory, and the other place whose name has temporarily slipped my mind...
Edit: Zu Design.
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Post by Marie-Cris on Dec 30, 2008 19:19:30 GMT 9.5
I remember you saying you wanted to see those places; the JAM Factory isn't too far from the Fringe.
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Post by Fredus on Dec 30, 2008 20:10:46 GMT 9.5
Woohoo, closeness is good. Saves me from getting too horribly lost.... I know, I've said it before that I want to see them. I am somewhat obsessed by the idea. In a would-walk-over-hot-coals-to-get-there kind of way. |
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Post by killerbananas on Dec 30, 2008 20:38:06 GMT 9.5
Is the Adelaide Jam Factory like the Melbourne one?
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Post by Marie-Cris on Dec 30, 2008 21:36:19 GMT 9.5
I wouldn't know Becs; I've only ever been to the Adelaide one, and that was for a high school Art excursion. I think. Or camp. Our camps tended to take us to the city, considering there wouldn't be anything new for us in camping in the country. |
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Post by killerbananas on Dec 31, 2008 9:44:32 GMT 9.5
An ART excursion? Then I highly doubt it's the same as the Melbourne one |
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Post by Marie-Cris on Dec 31, 2008 14:28:30 GMT 9.5
Wha ...
You do realise the JAM Factory is a glass house.
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Post by killerbananas on Dec 31, 2008 14:58:12 GMT 9.5
The only Jam Factory I have knowledge of is the Melbourne one.
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Post by Fredus on Dec 31, 2008 17:10:59 GMT 9.5
What does the Melbourne Jam Factory involve?
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Post by sanderella59 on Dec 31, 2008 19:22:08 GMT 9.5
Shops, restaurants, movie theatre and amusement arcades, plus a huge Borders and a Pancake Parlour. It's in Chapel St, South Yarra and is an old Jam Factory that has been converted.
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Post by Fredus on Dec 31, 2008 20:27:49 GMT 9.5
Oh. Definitely not the same kind of thing then. The Jam Factory in Adelaide used to be in a converted factory, too (hence the strange similarity of names ), but it isn't anymore. Very cool place, they have studios for all different kinds of artists. Metal studios....  and a gallery and shop, which is probably a good way for me to waste money... |
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Post by neh on Jan 1, 2009 11:03:30 GMT 9.5
Wanted to duck in here a week or so back and say that i saw James at the Christmas at the House concert on the 20th and he was divine; he sounded beautiful and looked fantastic. Much sighing from Cinta and myself ensued
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Post by Marie-Cris on Jan 1, 2009 11:21:44 GMT 9.5
One more note on the JAM factory and then I'm done, promise.
Fredus, if they let you, see if you can watch them make glass. I can't remember if we toured the whole place ((we might have and I can't remember)) but going to the workshop part and watching them make glass was one of the parts I remember.
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Post by Marie-Cris on Jan 1, 2009 11:28:04 GMT 9.5
Sorry, but I had to mention it!
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Post by Fredus on Jan 1, 2009 13:20:29 GMT 9.5
To contribute to both the on and off topic conversations:
I would like to win tickets to Opera in the Alps, and I checked it out, but I wouldn't have the foggiest what to write. I had more or less decided not to go, but if I could get free tickets...
And, Marie-Cris, I will try to see them making the glass. It would be very nifty. There's actually a glass place in Canberra, and I've never got around to going to check it out. Will do, someday.
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Post by klh44 on Jan 1, 2009 13:33:20 GMT 9.5
Fredus, next time you're in Canberra, let me know. We should meet up and share the Ant love.
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Post by Fredus on Jan 1, 2009 14:15:54 GMT 9.5
Actually... that could be cool I think the next time will be end of January. I'll give you a yell when I know for sure.. |
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