Total km traveled: 9062km (in the last week: about 1200km)
Places visited on the way: Colac maccas!, Warnambool, Port Fairy, Mt Gambier, Robe, Coorong NP.
Highlights: Melbourne Comedy Festival, Hawthorn v Collingwood at the G!, 14km fun run, great food, blue crater lake and sinkholes in Mt Gambier, the beautiful Coorong with water.
Lowlights: if there was a low light, it was having to leave Melbourne. But I'm sure Rictor was happy to get his house back.
Wow, it is week 10 already. In the last week, we have mostly been at Victorb's to refresh ourselves and we are currently settled in Adelaide for a few days to celebrate Krystal's b-b-b-birthday!
Firstly, we missed the "mark of the season" because the people in front of me took to long to wee in the toilet. Cyril Rioli's mark was pretty amazing and I'm glad the hawks beat the pies.
So what is a wildling? A wildling is a wild person that lives in the cold North in the world of "Game of Thrones". They are tribal hill billy type people that are "free" and not governed by the King. Victor had made the comment that we would be going back to being a wildling once we left Melbourne. What a craven thing to say.
Anyway, I thought I might do a quick review of the "Game of Thrones". They are a series of novels by George Martin. They have been entertaining me since I left Tasmania and finished the TV adaption of book 1. The series of books, called a Song of Ice and Fire is a series of seven fantasy fiction books and "Game of Thrones" is book 1. It came to fame when HBO made the first book into a TV series. It stars Sean Bean and a few other B graders and it has been highly entertaining.
Martin is a screen writer and the books are written in the point of view of several characters. Each chapter is a different point of view and so it is a very different read to your average novel. Most of the character point of views are centred on the Stark family, who are forced to enter the "Game of Thrones". It is more or less a political power struggle between the main players in the realm for the throne, while the Starks are caught in the middle.
The novel draws a lot of its plot from Imperial Rome (yep, most movies are based on Imperial Rome...) and its themes are the uncomfortable side of human nature such as the thirst for power, greed, destruction, sex, sexism, religion and many other types of discrimination. A very readable series but I recommend watching some of the TV episodes first to get to know the characters. Enjoy!
I leave you with a photo that mind remind some of us of Dave Chapelle's comedy. Purple grape juice.
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