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8 weeks in Australia. Snap. Just like that. I’m back at the airport in Melbourne waiting for my flight that will take me back to Europe. This time without travel partner. Mick has 3 more weeks in this magnificent country before he gets back. I’m happy for him. Me on the other hand will be back with my (other) family in my home country in about 40 hours. Also beautiful, just a bit smaller and a slightly change in temperature (only 35 degrees colder). My last weekend in Oz we (when I say me I mean Mick) decided to spoil us with a night in a hotel in central Melbourne. We spent Saturday evening strolling around the city, listening to street musicians, drinking in funky bars and had an absolute gorgeous meal in a Thai restaurant ... read more

Lamb chops… how delicious. Australia, you spoil me. Sensational food, wonderful people, incredible sceneries… I just want to eat the whole country up. And on top of all of that I am going to an Icelandic horse farm tomorrow. I’m ecstatic. Anyway, first thing first. Celebrating Xmas far away from home, in a country where it’s warm and sunny (but where they still spray fake snow on the windows!) and xmas day is on the 25th of December. If I can decide I would like to continue my celebrations down under. I agree that drinking glögg (mulled wine) in front of the open fire with the snow falling quietly outside is a special thing BUT I prefer a yummy BBQ in the sun. See you all at the beach xmas 2015? We celebrated xmas eve (the ... read more

Every day is a journey. Every hour, every second. Yesterday I lost focus. It’s very easy to do. I was lying in bed and as soon as I closed my eyes my mind was full of negative thoughts playing tricks in my head. The trick is to recognise it when it comes, to be aware. Today is a new day with new thoughts. Lesson learned. I’m spending my day in Melbourne. I feel lucky. I took the train to Flinders Station and from there walked along the river to the botanical gardens. I strolled around smelling flowers and learning about the Australian trees and plants for about 45 min and then continued on a tram back to the city centre. I don’t know that much about Melbourne and I like to explore the city without having ... read more

This time the blog post might not be as jolly and cheer-full as usual. But that’s how it is sometimes. I think this one is more for myself, to put it on black and white, to simplify it and to make it easier to see that, that specific moment is not that bad. It’s just in my mind. The last 2 days I have been in a down place (I can now see that it was only my mind playing tricks with me). It happens from time to time if I don’t take care of my mind and myself. I get stuck in my own mind with painful negative thoughts that doesn’t want to disappear. Or at least that’s what I think at the time. I know now that its just thoughts. They are not the ... read more

With a hand drawn map and one day of chilling and playing chess in Byron Bay we headed inland through green fields, tall trees and a lovely countryside with Mount Warning as our destination. Mt Warning, or Wollumbin (the aboriginal name for it), was created from the Tweed Volcano, which erupted 23 million years ago. Anyway, before we were going to conquer this mountain we had some other places in the same area that we wanted to visit. First stop was the Natural Bridge, which is a waterfall coming down trough a massive big rock into a beautiful lagoon located in stunning rain forest. All VERY cool. Our friend Omar who told us about it said that you can jump trough the waterfall down into the lagoon but unfortunately now there was a big tree that ... read more