Well we're back on the road and boy is it a good feeling! Dirt under your fingernails, sun on your face, life does not get any better. We're currently doing a little 2,5 week trip to the south-west of WA. Right now we're in Yallingup, which is near Dunsborough just below Cape Naturaliste. It's a beautiful area of rugged cliffs, eucalypt trees, shrubs and rocky beaches with big surf. On our way out of Perth we stopped in Yalgorup, a national park just below Mandurah for our first night of bush camping. It was great to be able to light a fire and be surrounded by animals again. We had a little mouse in our tent, were visited by a possum at night which woke us up by going through our dishes and in the morning ... read more

Hello and welcome to a new installment of my blog. It’s been a while and to say we’ve seen a lot in the mean time would be to say that Australia is quite large. Because of that, I’ll split the trip into two parts and make a separate entry for the second part. To take you back to where I left off last time, we had just finished 6 weeks travelling from Port Douglas in North Queensland to Broome in North West Australia. Our companions for the trip, Natalie and Manu, had left for Adelaide and France respectively and we were awaiting the arrival of Roy, one of my friends from back home. I picked Roy up at the Airport (a daunting three minute drive from our hostel) on the 29th of November and we set ... read more

We made it to Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia in one piece. The last three weeks have been pretty amazing, with new experiences every day -most of them good- and incredible sights and impressions. I’ve opted to give a day by day account, which means it will be long, again. If you get bored at any point, just jump ahead to the pictures. It all started on the 14th of October, when Janine, Natalie, Manu and I left Port Douglas and headed north towards Cooktown. The good bye in Port was pretty hard. It’s different than saying goodbye to people back home, because you know they will still be there when you get back. Here the community ends for you the moment you depart. Sure, there will still be a Port Douglas next season, ... read more

Hi all, When I wrote my last blog I was in Brisbane and that seems like ages ago now. After Brizzy we’ve been traveling up the coast to Mackay, where I am now, by way of Noosa Heads, Rainbow Beach, Fraser Island, Hervey Bay, Bundaberg, Mundubbera, Rockhampton and Yeppoon. Although some members of the original group that met in Byron Bay are still here (Manu, Benny and I), some of the others have gone their separate ways. That’s all part of traveling, and we’ve met up with new people along the way. As I’m typing this, I’m sitting on a camping chair with the river at my back and the ocean to my right, the laptop hooked up to my car battery in a deserted stretch of nature next to the beach in Mackay. We’ve been ... read more

Yes, I'm finally on the move. At the moment I'm in Port Macquarie, about halfway between Sydney and Brisbane. It's a nice little sea-side town named after the former governer (1810-1821) of the penal colony in Australia, Lachlan Macquarie. He was the first of the governers who made an active effort to shape the colony into something more than a basic prison and he's responsible for many of the first proper buildings in Sydney, like a hospital, barracks for the inmates working there, churches, etc. Many of these still remain in Sydney today. When I last put up a report I was still in Sydney being generally rained upon and unfortunately that continued for quite a while. It rained every day for 11 days straight which was a record, the first time in 15 years that ... read more