The Big Loop

The Big Crab | Ballina | Credit phb Evans Head NSW | Credit phb Evening Camping NSW | Credit phb Australia is the perfect Continent for Camping! Why? Well, this is my personal view and thank God, not many people around the globe have noticed! So my point is: the next 20 years this will not change at all. While in Europe many people give up Camping for various reasons, Australia is the perfect destination for long term traveling via Campervan, Caravan or tent. Renting a small car and renting a hut on a campsite is easy enough! All you need is TIME … Aussies travel around the continent called the Big Loop … Some Grey Nomads even sell their house. Five or more years on the Roads … Pretty cool, indeed! Kindly from the Gold Coast your Peter H with Maria Ines 4 Feb 2026

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Sentimental Value | The Film

HOTA Gallery View from Top | Credit phb Sentimental Value - Ein filmisches Meisterwerk: Filmkunst und das Thema Versöhnung - My Review Als ich gestern morgens an der Gold Coast in QLD Australien dank HOTA den neuesten Film von Joachim Trier erleben konnte , wurde mir klar: Dies ist mehr als nur ein Familienportrait - es ist eine tiefgründige Meditation über Generationenkonflikte, künstlerische Integrität und die heilende Kraft der Versöhnung.Triers norwegischer Originaltitel "Affeksjonsverdi" - wörtlich "Affektionswert" - trifft den Kern präziser als der englische Titel. Es geht hier um den subjektiven Wert, den wir Beziehungen, Orten und Erinnerungen zuschreiben: Im Kern um Familie und ein HOME. In London konnte ich Harold Pinters Dramen erleben, zuerst The Caretaker (Taking care ...) und The Homecoming.  In Berlin (damals die Jahre im Studium an der FU) die Berliner Schaubühne mit ihren unvergessenen Inszenierungen: Der Kirschgarten, Shakespeare mit JUTTA LAMPE und Michael Koenig und anderen. Gute Filmauszüge von Bergmann wurden in meinen Leistungskursen analysiert:  Mann und Frau, Beziehungen und Kommunikation und mehr ... Zum Film (vgl. dazu Cannes): Stellan Skarsgård spielt den begnadeten fiktiven Gustav Borg, einen Filmregisseur auf der Suche nach Erlösung. Seine Tochter Nora (Renate Reinsve) lehnt die Hauptrolle in seinem Comeback-Film ab - ein symbolträchtiger Moment der Verweigerung. Als ein Hollywood-Star Elle Fanning die Rolle übernimmt und immer mehr in ihrem Aussehen zur eigenen Tochter wird, wird der Film zu einer komplexen…

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Dream Job

What's your dream job? My dream job was High School Teaching German and English Literature. No regrets & loved it till I retired in 2015 in North Germany.

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Adventure

Coming home after three full weeks of camping, we had a longer break half the way in Maclean in NSW at the mighty Clarence River. Credit phb Credit phb Credit phb Credit phb

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Road Trip

Think back on your most memorable road trip. Quite a few, actually, when living in Windhoek Namibia: The first three years from 1988 we travelled around 10 weeks into the Namib and National Parks annually and slept on our Landrover with a roof top tent, we had imported from Germany by container, awesome experiences, indeed! Credit phb

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Truman Capote

When studying in Berlin around 1974, I bought the Penguin Classic I found now in a Camp Kitchen along my Camping Trip Northern Rivers area in New South Wales in Australia before Xmas 2025. One of the best US books ever written, for sure. True Crime Genre and Podcasts were not even at the Horizon. And I am glad I found a copy of Moby Dick as well. Nothing like reading when camping in Australia. By the way: The Place to be, if not in Berlin. In Cold Blood: The Birth of True Crime Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (1966) remains the definitive work that created the true crime genre—a “nonfiction novel” that reads with the psychological depth of fiction while maintaining journalistic rigor. The Achievement Capote spent six years researching the 1959 murder of the Clutter family in rural Kansas, conducting over 8,000 pages of interviews. His breakthrough was treating real events with novelistic techniques: shifting perspectives, building suspense, and developing the killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock as complex characters rather than monsters. The result transforms crime reporting into literature. Enduring Power The book’s strength lies in its moral ambiguity. Capote neither romanticizes nor demonizes the murderers, instead revealing how circumstance, psychology, and choice intersect tragically. His depiction of small-town America shattered by random violence captured something essential about American anxiety in the post-war era—a theme that resonates even…

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Deutsche Welle

This site is known to Learners of German around the world … Linked More than The Language only: Culture and Landeskunde Menschen in Deutschland News and Background Infos. Credit phb

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Dangar Falls

There are places and there are really good places: One of the best for us is this one here with real Camping like 50 years ago named Lodge. But it is in fact an old Dairy Farm, the second wave of taking the land after logging … Very cool up here at 900 m above Sea Level, which is called Coffs Harbour Coastline and Northern Rivers in NSW. In OZ, of course😎 and not in the USA. And the beautiful but overcrowded South Pacific Ocean Coastline between Sydney and Brisbane. One of our annual 18 nights Loops from the Gold Coast since we both retired. View from my Fire Place 👌 Credit phb Published by Peter H Bloecker, retired Director of Studies (North Germany).

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