Mount Evelyn - take 2

4/6/2015

Let's quickly recapture the last few days:

After a brief stint in Austria after the Iceland trip and the wonderful BBQ with family & friends in Graz, I traveled back to Australia. The flight with Qatar Airlines was long yet quite relaxed.

Kaye and Greg picked me up from the airport and I had a bed in the house for the first night.

I went to the Storehouseyesterday – my preferred 'office' to hang out in Mount Evelyn. Great coffee as usual, quick Internet and a nice chia pudding as lunch. Got many things sorted out yesterday, from banking stuff to citizenship application tasks, answering emails and sending off photos to friends I haven't been in touch with while in Europe. And phoning a lot of people!

Chia pudding and a flat white

I walked down the 5km to Montrose to visit Hahndorf Fine Chocolates, do some vegetable shopping and visit Kaye in the bank. Hahndorf Fine Chocolates are presenting their products nicely, and I sampled some of their stuff. Unfortunately their dark chocolates are still relatively sweet from my palate.

Slivered almonds in dark chocolate - and I ate them all!

It was a clear and extremely cold night. According to the weather report, it went down to almost -2 degrees, but huddled in my sleeping bag with a blanket on top and a hoody on I slept quite well until my jet-lag woke me up around 4am.

Getting out of bed when it is dark at 6.30am and probably only 3 degrees was not exactly fun, but I couldn't sleep anymore, finished my meditation session already and was looking forward to a hot cup of coffee in the house.

5am, morning glory

Brrrrrrr

Luckily I only read it after getting up in the morning

I continued to work on some stuff in the Storehouse and had another productive morning. I'll meet Alex in downtown Melbourne tomorrow and will stay in the city overnight. Saturday I'll probably visit an AFL match in the glorious MCG and am planning to migrate north afterwards as it is just too cold down here for camping with my setup.

I feel the need to share a picture that I took at Sanguine Estate, a red 5 star James Halliday winery in Heathcote, that I visited with Kaye before I left for my trip to Austria. In a communication training at MCI, we've learned about the four temperaments – choleric, melancholic, sanguine and phlegmatic. In applied terms, this picture explains the four temperaments. In addition, the Hunter family motto is a near perfect fit of my last two months while I was recovering:

Sanguine Estate