Sunset Cruise

Sunset cruise
on Willie
pearl lugger
17.07.2007

Shadows in the Sun

Thursday night movie..

Shadows in the Sun ('Vengo a prenderti')

Jeremy Taylor (Joshua Jackson) is an aspiring writer from London who works in publishing. He has been sent off by his boss to find the reclusive writer Weldon Parish and convince him to write his first book in 20 years. Parish lives in a beautiful Italian village and uses his friends and a few whimsical tricks to try and get Jeremy to leave him alone. But Jeremy doesn't leave.. oh no! He stays and slowly makes friends with the irascible but charming Parish and his beautiful daughter and comes to realise that life isn't about business or being true to yourself, it's about being comfortable and loved and.. and..

To be honest, the plot doesn't really matter. Shadows in the Sun does for Italy what French Kiss and Chocolat did for France. The film is set in an idyllic rural version of Italy where everyone is a warm-hearted eccentric who speaks perfect English. This is the Italy of Sunday supplements, travel brochures and pasta sauce commercials. But some of it is there.. most of it is there.. between the hills of Tuscan landscape.. and I enjoyed it.. the little bit of Italy in my Australian night :) Mi mancaaa!!! Tanto, tanto, tanto!!! (a)

Cocolicious

A peek into our frontyard ;)

Yummm, COCOS!! :P

Mangrove Resort, 07.07.2007

The Sunset

Cable Beach Sunset, 05.07.2007 "Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."

Neighbours

Meet our new neighbours from room The Hole Under My Home.

They shelter at night and emerge early in the morning to bask in sunny areas before foraging for food during the warmer parts of the day. They are just about to get ready for the mating season, so we expect more to come. However, the first encounter was - how should I say this - rather unpleasant?! Well, little fellows, hope you won't get ideas of visiting your neighbours from room 24!

Beasts of Bourbon @ Mangrove

Normally quiet (unless there's a concert) Saturday arvo turns into a full-on rock show when the Beasts of Bourbon practise for their performance at the Mangrove on June the 30th. I'm working at Palms Bar over the lunch and can only imagine how loud it's gonna be at night. But people can't be bothered, Tex Perkins is in town and long live rock'n'roll.

Beasts of Bourbon are an Australian rock 'n' roll band formed in 1983 (born before I was born! :)). They helped to define Australian swamp rock and are something of a supergroup, featuring line-ups of some of the most popular musicians (such as Rolling Stones) of that sub-genre over many years.

The night kicks off around 10 pm when the old rock kings take over the stage. I'm there, and so are about 350 other guests. It's really not my type of music, but staff gets in for free and I'm living at the Mangrove anyway, so where else would I be if not there rocking with the rest of the crowd. Me and Heidi, a new Canadian girl, had a brekky shift, so we're off tonight and have just had a bottle of chilly white wine to get onto the right wave length. The rock wave. And it's hard, and it's loud, and it's mad, and it's all around.

I'm working again the morning after. It's Sunday and everybody sleeps in. There's a tour group of 44 people in their second youth (read: somewhere between 50- and 100-year old) staying at the resort over the weekend. I'm trying to estimate the number of complaints I'm gonna have to deal with once they come in for brekky. 44? Wrong! It's zero. How come!?! And what do I see!?! Some of the old ladies have spotted Tex having brekky at a table nearby and stop for a quick chat. I can't hear what exactly is being said, but I can assume from their faces it's far from a complaint. Yeah. Give them rock'n'roll and they are happy, play some dance beats and they won't stop telling you how horrible and sleepless their night was, even though the sound pitch for rock'n'roll is probably twice as high. At least most of the bar staff suffer from a migraine. Diagnosis: overdose of rock'n'roll.