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 (known by written history) to cross Australia from south to north more than 140 years ago. Along the road there are several roadhouses, where you can but petrol and of course have a drink and ... read more

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 for a long amount of days already. He's a very cool roommate I should say....sometimes we cook together, or share the laundry etc., all of that saves money. We go out sometimes as well, together ... read more

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 Human Development Index (HDI). With a mark of more than 0.96 Australia is on the third position. Just to compare: Holland ca. 0,94 / Venezuela ca. 0,78 / Suriname ca. 0,75 / Indonesia ca. 0,71 ... read more

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, where we did our practice at the MIL (stage), which was almost 5 years ago now! Paul is living for more than 1 year in Spain and is doing professional cycling in a team from ... read more

¿Cómo estais? Everything went fine here, except yesterday morning (headache). I arrived last Tuesday with Ryan Air, one of the European low cost airlines. I arrived at Madrid Barajas Int'l Airport. The airport is quite large, but not so nice from the outside. It was my first time with Ryan Air...I've never got so little legroom in an aircraft! Once inside the terminal I took the metro to the city center. Madrid has an excellent metrosystem, very very good and better that I expected. With the metro you could reach almost every part of the city, there are dozens of stations. I arrived at my hostel and it was in the afternoon. Then I decided to take a map and go for a walk in the area around the hostel, just to get to know the ... read more