Episode 23: ❌ Are we selfish?! ❌

When I say selfish, I mean people are just thinking about their problems and not about others.
AND yes I think people are selfish, myself too.

Everyone is just thinking about their problems and sometimes they just realize that the problems aren’t real problems for others.
Sometimes we should take our time and think about the real problems in life.
For example how WE DESTROY OUR EARTH! 🌍

𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁: Until 2050 could be more plastic in the sea than fish! 8 Mio tons of plastic enters the ocean every year and it stays there for up to 500 years. All the Microplastics is smothering into the environment!
#stopplastic #keepitgreen #earth
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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia 2018: Fabianxarnold explores the fashion in Down Under

In addition to the Travelling I will try to bring you something about fashion closer. The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia, which lasted from 13th may till the 19th may in Sydney, was of course something which I experienced. Which bizarre trends I met in ‘Down Under’, which personalities I got to know this week and more, you’ll learn in this blog post.

Fashion Week Sydney – My personal experiences and experiences

I’ve been living in Sydney for over a month now and I can say that it’s an incredibly hot city. Not only the weather, but also the people, the air and the vibe gives you an unbelievable life energy! This life energy turned into a huge anticipation shortly before the Fashion Week. For a long time, I was not looking forward to a week like the #MBFW Australia 2018! Since I was very limited as a backpacker in my selection of outfits and had nothing reasonable for the fashion week, I was kindly provided by the International Fashion Group with outfits for the Fashion Week. Thanks a lot for this! : D

On May 14th, 2018, I finally went to Fashion Week to attend my first show. Of course, I was extremely excited because I didn‘t know a single person at Fashion Week. But fortunately that changed in the blink of an eye! On the first day I was still alone and very lost, but on the second day I met two stylists from Melbourne, a model and a social media star from Sydney, which I am now allowed to count as one of my friends. Fashion Week was much more fun with them than I actually thought. Unlike the Fashion Week in Berlin, the Fashion Week in Sydney has a central structure. That means the shows are, with few exceptions, all in the same place. This makes it very convenient for visitors, as you do not have to constantly change places between shows. After seeing the whole show, my feeling was that the #MBFW Australia was also much smaller than any other fashionweek which I had visited before. But after 2 days I had seen a lot more visitors, photographers, models and bloggers i’ve ever seen. All in all, it was an extremely cool week, in which I met a lot of nice people and gained experience! Also … almost forgot … of course, the fashion was also very cool: D But more on that in the next section!

The most bizarre trends Down Under 2018

On this topic, I have to say right at the beginning that the fashion in Australia is not as bizarre as I imagined. Of course there were outfits, which are very unique. But even these I would wear. and anyone who knows me knows that I dress rather simple and street style. By the way … I was even on the cover picture for the best street style of #MBFW Australia 2018 on the website of GQ Australia.

But now back to the topic Trends in Down Under 2018.The video below shows a small part of the St George Nextgen Show. It is worked a lot with  yellow, green and orange colours. The neck is always covered, be it through a scarf or a turtleneck sweater. I personally like this style great. It is something different and stands out from the normal black, white, gray street style. Besides the shows from Double Rainbow, Blair Archibald and Justin Cassin, I liked this show the most. But maybe that was just because men’s outfits were introduced. Almost all the other shows were about the women.

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But I would like to respond to that as well. Here I show again a short video from the show The Innovators. The outfit presented here represents the women’s fashion at #MBFW Australia 2018 very well! It is very much worked with white. The small details are very nicely worked out. Furthermore, the outfits are often played with sex appeal.

One of the most bizarre outfits I show you in this short video! Unfortunately I am not sure if this outfit is suitable as streetstyle and is used in everyday life: D Little fun !!

Personalities at the #MBFW Fashion Week 2018 in Sydney

As I said in the previous article, the first day was really crappy … I did not know one at the Fashion Week in Australia … Unfortunately there was no opportunity to meet people. But these days can always happen. The most important thing is not to be discouraged and just keep going. On Tuesday, the second day, things were much better and I met several models, stylists and journalists. It all went on as a pyramid scheme and I feel that within a day I know 50% of the people who attended the Fashion Week in Sydney.Among them were above all many photographers, bloggers and models. My close friends include Caspar Thomas (@caspar_thomas), Phillip Robert Holmes (@philliprobert) and Charlie Taylor (@charlietaylor).The most famous personality was Matthew David Johnson (@matthewdavidjohnson), the bachelor Australia of the last season, with whom I talked briefly. On Instagram, I saw Tammy Hembrow (@tammyhembrow 8.2m followers) attend the GIA show. Since I was already at home …: D Well maybe next time …: D

 A week full of stress – The Fashion Week

For a long time it wasn`t stressful at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia 2018 in Sydney. I’ve met so many people this week and experienced so much that I cannot remember everything. I was at Fashion Week from mornings to evenings Monday through Thursday, taking with me virtually every show. Even though I have to wait a bit until I have the next big event, I am very happy that this week is finally over! Now it’s time to review all the photos, videos, impressions and contacts and evaluate!

I hope you liked this blog post?! If you have questions, feel free to ask me! I will answer everything and if you have suggestions on what to write in my next blog post, please tell me! 🙂

Otherwise, check out my Instagram account @fabianxarnold!

Best regards

Fabian

 

Next Roadtrip Tasmania – A landscape like in a picture book – # 5 Work and Travel Australia 2018

After our road trip to the Great Ocean Road I arrived back in Melbourne, I had no idea what I should get up to while being here. I went back to the hostel and reunited back with my mates and thought what I should do with them while I’m here, also because the hostel mates would fly back home to Germany next week, which was unfortunate, we couldn’t plan a new road trip. The following road trip came around the corner much quicker than I thought!

 

Road to Ultra 2018 Melbourne – I was there!

The next big event in Melbourne was Road to Ultra 2018. I got tickets for myself and two of my mates from a good friend I had met whilst in Melbourne. I was so excited, because it was my second time at a festival. In the past I have visited a color festival in Germany, which was great, unfortunately that was my last appearance at a festival.

More than 50,000 people were expected to come to the Road to Ultra Festival in Melbourne. The DJs Axwell and Afrojack were there as well.

Being sneaky and coming up with a lie, I snuck backstage and managed to have a small conversation with Axwell. I also witnessed the grand finale of Axwell live on stage. I stood about 5 meters from the DJ desk and had more than 50,000 people in front of me! I could not believe it, It was awesome and I recommend everyone to go to this festival. Somehow festivals have never really touched me but after this experience now I’m looking forward to the next one, festival fever has seduced me.

 

My worst time in Australia

2 days later I was alone in Melbourne, because my two mates left Melbourne and flew to Germany. First, I thought, “Okay, I’ll work on Instagram, edit some pictures and take a look at the city.” After two days I still haven’t found a new Travel mate, I was a bit queasy, I wouldn’t normally say I was having a minor melt down, but within two days I didn’t speak a single word and therefore needed someone to talk to and let my emotions out. I picked up the phone and called my parents, calling best mates from Germany Hagen Richter and Patryk Stawinoga.

This helped me a fair bit and started to calm down a little.Since I had found no new travel Mate in this hostel within three days, I decided to change the hostel and try elsewhere to find a travel mate. The new hostel was the best decision I had made in the last couple days, within 24 hours I met 3 new friends, with whom I am in very good contact still to this day. One of them is Mirko, whom you already know from my Instagram Stories, I got along with him right away and started planning our next trip to Melbourne and around Australia.

New destination Tasmania?!

One morning we came up with the idea to fly to Tasmania, before we are going to travel the east coast. We looked for flights, an accommodation for the first night and a campervan to travel through Tasmania.It was March, during the day temperatures were fine probably around 22-24 degrees, on the first day we bought only a blanket for the Camper Van and thought that would be plenty, but we were wrong. By nightfall it had cooled to 5 degrees and it was so cold that we had to turn on the engine to use the heater. In addition, we were forced to be closer to each other to try create some heat. The next day we bought two new blankets directly, so that situation would not happen again.

What is to see in Tasmania?!

Since I hadn’t seen much in Australia yet, it was my plan to see all the beautiful nature of Tasmania. Yes, of course we were clever enough prior to plan to see everything in Tasmania, as described in my last blog post, we made a plan on how to do our road trip. We considered first to travel the east coast, where many beautiful beaches are. In the second week we wanted to see the west in which the mountains and lakes sat. We read earlier that Tasmania has the clearest air and

the clearest water in the world, so we were very curious about what we would encountered there. You can see our itinerary in the screenshots, we literally drove a large circle counterclockwise.

In addition to many other beautiful places I had two highlights in Tasmania: “Bay of Fires” and “Wineglas Bay”.

Bay of Fires

Bay of Fires has a white beach, as I had previously only seen in pictures, I thought something so amazing like that doesn’t exist, that these pictures would be edited only with Photoshop. As we walked along the beach, the sand creaked under our feet, it was unbelievable, the water was crystal blue, the air temperature was only 15 degrees despite blue sky and sun. Mirko was not willing to go in the water, but I decided to put on my swimming trunks, and jump into the water whilst filming with my GoPro.Tip: For those who want to go to Tasmania: Definitely plan a day for Bay of Fires to enjoy the beach!

Wineglass Bay

The Wineglas Bay is as the name suggests, a bay shaped like a wine glass, to get there you have to hike for about an hour. However, if you decide to just watch Wineglass Bay from the mountain, it’s about a 30 minute walk. Unfortunately we did not have much time and therefore could not really enjoy the panorama, but in when there is great weather it’s definitely one of Tasmania’s highlights.

Of course, there were many other beautiful places on the east coast but I would be writing for hours and hours this was just a short ride on the East Coast, let your thoughts wonder and stop where you want. In the north of Tasmania, there was not that much to see! Lots of beaches, a few cities, a few sightseeing points, but nothing that amazed me with excitement

The next thing I remember is the mountain “The Nut”. It is the most northern point in Tasmania. The mountain is at the last corner of the land mass and looks like a nut. It is surrounded by cliffs and is completely smooth on top, with a air lift you can be transported to the top and start your walk, the trip takes about 45 minutes, during the walk you have a beautiful view that looks over the ocean and the coast of Tasmania, this is definitely a “must do” in Tasmania. As the trip started we were sighted with many national parks, First we approached the “Tarkine Wildernis”. We drove for over 100 km on a gravel road, the road felt like never ending, you can picture it a long road with trees that filled either side. We also experienced a beautiful sunset, we sang songs and also told each other funny stories from Germany.

Please visit Tasmania in the australian summer!

The next day were the worse, we experienced bad weather, It was only about 8 to 15 degrees throughout the day and it rained consistently. Therefore, we could not really enjoy the whole beautiful panorama, do not hike and do not go swimming.The whole beautiful highlights such, we visited Lake St. Clair and Cradle Mountain, but we could not go hiking and enjoy nature, we literally just drove around all the time, virtually viewing all of the sightseeing points in western Tasmania, which we then drove back to Hobert, the largest city in Tasmania two days earlier than originally planned. The last two days we went to the south again, visited a cave and planned a beach day, altogether we drove about 3200 km and literally saw everything you can see in Tasmania.

Stranded in nowhere in Tasmania without reception …

Alas, I almost forgot to tell you that, we borrowed our Camper Van from Wicked Campers the car was a 20-year-old Toyota that had almost fallen apart. In the second week of our road trip we got stuck with our car, (Ok I admit we were not always careful with the car) often we were stupid but had loads of fun. We drove with 80 km / h on the gravel road and felt like rally drivers, until the worse thing happened! We got stuck somewhere in the middle of Tasmania, Ironically, the ass of the world, where we had no reception and no Internet with our phones.

What happened?!

We started up a mountain with our Camper Van and suddenly it started to smell funny, like  burnt rubber or something, then it started to smoke, the engine had switched off and wasn’t turning back on. My Travel Mate Mirko was starting to panic but I took it easy and made fun of the situation, luckily we had enough to drink and eat for the next few days.After about 20 minutes, a pensioner couple drove past, which we could stop the pensioners, however, were afraid of us, the male driver pulled up wound down the window just enough to see his forehead, they were both so afraid he even locked the doors. The couple unfortunately couldn’t help us, we only asked them if we could ride to a point where we have internet, but that was probably too much to ask …After another hour had passed, approached a large 4WD, thankfully it stopped, out stepped a male who was a mechatronics engineer which he was with his family. He briefly looked at the engine and said that the air conditioning had blown … We tried again to start the engine and it worked! Was magic, thankfully we could finally continue.

Conclusion

If you are in Australia from November to January or in Melbourne, you should definitely drive to Tasmania for one to two weeks. Tasmania has beautiful beaches to the east and beautiful nature (mountains and lakes) to the west. At this time you should actually have luck with the weather and you can fully enjoy the panorama. However, if you have been there before, it is not a “must to do” for once again. I still want to go to New Zealand anyway and many have told me that Tasmania is similar to New Zealand.

For us it went first back to Melbourne and from there with a camper van to Sydney. But I’ll tell you more in my next blog post. You can also check my Instagram account @fabianxarnold or if you have questions you can email me. I look forward to your feedback and wish you a nice time. 

Greetings from Australia your Fabian!