Birregurra

[emo_snal]

I. Prologue   For awhile now I've had this idea to do a "Portrait of Birregurra," initially because I was new here so it was worth painting the new setting, but now it's been a year, but during the intervening year I've been thinking a lot about how people don't write about what to them is most familiar -- who writes a travelogue to their hometown

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[ravenfeather]

It sounds like there is magic in the dust there. That is a LOT of great stuff for such a small place.

[emo_snal]

I really quite like it (:

[celluloid_jam]

Mostly unrelated, but.

Several years ago my BFF at the time asked me to go to Sydney with her because her grandmother was dying and she didn't want to have to face her dysfunctional family by herself. I agreed. We left on the same day but we had separate flights.

When we got in and settled, she sprang it me that she actually had to go to Melbourne for the first 8 days of our 14 day trip. So I was alone in Sydney for 8 days. I was super irritated at first - like, half of the trip she was spending on the other side of the continent, so why was I even there? But I was within walking distance of Circular Quay and I took the ferry to Manly Beach / explored the Royal Botanic garden / had a freaking blast on my own. It was almost annoying when she came back to Sydney and I had to share my room with her for another week, haha.

I would love to go back some day - something magical about the place.

[emo_snal]

Oh wow! Had she known earlier she'd have to be in Melbourne or did it suddenly come up?? That sounds like such shenanigans! Glad you had fun though! I've only spent two weekends in Sydney, though I did get over to Many and loved the Royal Botanical Garden. (: One thing I think is funny about "Sydneysiders" is they _think_ (well all Australians do I think) that the "Sydney harbor bridge" is world famous and as instantly recognizable to everyone as the opera house. And I, upon arriving was like, oh there's a bridge here is there? lol

[wpadmirer]

It sounds SO different. Even the smallest towns in the states seem to pave 90% of the roads. It's hard to imagine living somewhere where only the two main streets are!

[cazzicles]

lololol I can honestly say that no one has ever told me that Colac is the STD capital of Australia, but then again, I don't often talk about Colac! How.. lovely.. for them!

[emo_snal]

Haha just mention it to a few people and see, I bet they could know nothing about Colac and they'll say "I... get the feeling, it... I don't know, seems like the kind of place... that would be the Victorian STD capital!"

I was thinking about going back and editing this entry and adding in the fact that most of the koalas down here have chlamydia, to be mentioned in close proximity to the Colac STD fact, possibly leading to extremely sordid implications ;)

[selucius]

You just gave me a good goal... move somewhere I can describe as picturesquely as this here. I can't imagine anyone wanting to know more about living in the soulless center of DFW.

[emo_snal]

I've actually been having fun composing in my head a similar portrait of my home town of Mission Viejo, California, which is a suburban wasteland, an ill conceived "city with no center," and no distinguishable borders either, just a mess of meandering residential streets. (: What is DFW?

[selucius]

Dallas/Ft Worth. The areas surrounding the two downtowns are the same, meandering, indistinguishable mess.