Click PRINT VERSION if you can't see the text!!! G'day all, greetings from the city of Melbourne, where I'll be staying for the next couple of weeks. in the next blog I'll tell more about this great city. My last week in Adelaide was horrible, VERY BORING because I wasn't working. I worked only for 4 days packing down a festival site. I couldn't get earlier out of the city because all tours were fully booked. But finally I left Adelaide on a tour towards Melbourne, through the Grampians National Park and the Great Ocean Road. Grampians National Park is located [View Full Entry]

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G-day mates, greetings from the sunny and hot city of Adelaide. When I arrived here and of February, Tim came and pick me up and we went to Victor Harbor, about 80 km south of Adelaide. He went there to visit two friends: Nicole and Candice. We had some beers and played some board games till late that night. The next day we went to see Victor Harbor and later in the afternoon we went back to Adelaide, where we had dinner that evening with Tim's mom and other family members. The dinner was organized for Tim because he was leaving [View Full Entry]

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Hi there, what's going on mates? ;) things are still going fine so far here in Australia. I booked two tours and left Darwin a few weeks ago and went into outback of Australia. It was nice, beautiful, and interesting....very long drives on the Stuart Highway without anything particiular to see outside (just bush, rocks, sand)....once a while you see an old telegraph station. The Stuart Highway runs all the way from Darwin to Port Augusta (north of Adelaide) and has more than 2800 km in length and is named after John Mc Douall Stuart, which was the first human being [View Full Entry]

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G-day there, it has been a while since I wrote something on the blog. Things are still going well here in Darwin. It has been very hot and humid these last days, but not a lot of rain though. The Wet Season looks a bit dry. I recorded a short video of a lightning strike, seen from behind the hostel. The YouTube link is: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VxDZcQfUWCE I stopped working at the hostel a few weeks ago, as it became too much for me to wake up early many mornings after finishing at Mc Donalds at 1:00 or 3:00. At Mc Donalds things [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, first of all a HAPPY NEW YEAR full of blessings, health and happiness to all of you and your families for 2008. I'll start with my birthday...on Dec. 22nd I turned 25. At the night of Dec. 21st I did a kind of small celebration near the pool with a few people from the hostel: Tobi and Scott (roommates at that time), another German guy, Victoria and an American girl. They sung Happy Birthday at 0:00 very loud out there and after that we had a couple of beers till late. Tobi is German and has been my roommate [View Full Entry]

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G-day all, yeah, it has been a long time ago, but everything is still going fine Down Under. While trying to find a job in Sydney, I decided to also start looking for any job outside the city....any kind of job! I started looking for jobs in Perth, Melbourne, Darwin, Brisbane....everywhere. I was willing to relocate to any city around Australia if I found a job. So then I reacted on an advertisement where they were looking for people to work in a fast-food restaurant in Alice Springs, around Perth, Darwin and in the rural area of Queensland (Mc Donalds, KFC, [View Full Entry]

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G-day everyone, greetings from Down Under!!! My first time to the Southern half of this planet! Australia is the oldest continent of the world and was colonized by the British back in 1788. That’s why they speak English and they drive on the left. The currency is the Australian Dollar. 1 EURO = AU$ 1,67 these days. Australia is considered in the top-3 best countries to live (after Norway and Iceland), in terms of general life conditions. The United Nations ranks countries with a mark between 0,1 and 1 for their life conditions (education, income, healthcare etc etc), it’s called the [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, I'm back here in The Netherlands for one week....and it's very cold!!! I arrived Wednesday and worked on Thursday (half a day) and Friday the whole day. Also yesterday and today I worked, and tomorrow for the last time. Francesca, a 22 year old girl from Rome, came to visit me during the last weekend. She's originally from the small town Villa Rosa, which is in Abruzzo, Italy. She studied in Rome and is still living there. I know here since 2003 from a penfriends website. She also likes to travel, get to know cultures, languages and make friends [View Full Entry]

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Buenos dias, ¿cómo estais? ¡“Porqué no te callas”! (why don’t you shut up!!!) that’s what the King of Spain told the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frias to do during a conference in Chile. This sentence became famous across whole Spain just in a few hours and now there are songs and ringtones about it!!! Girona & Sant Felui de Guixols I arrived at Girona airport, where I took the bus to Girona station. There Paul was waiting for me and we went home. I knew Paul because we studied together in Rotterdam, but he did Mathematics. He also went to Curacao, [View Full Entry]

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Ciao tutti! Saluto della bella Italia. After arriving at Malpensa airport I took a bus to Milano Centrale and then the train to Torino Porta Nuova. There I met Stefano and Fabio. They live in Lanzo Torinese and Germagnano (two small villages outside Turin, near the mountains...not very far from France...with 5000 and 1500 inhabitants). The family of Stefano were very very friendly, also his sisters (Margherita and Federica)....I can't complain! None of them speaks English, but Stefano's father knows a lot of English words and he can say a few sentences. The parents were both retired and the father also [View Full Entry]

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