Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 3
May 23rd 2012
Lundi matin, on dit au revoir à Noelle et Peter après une super semaine chez eux! On se dirige vers Noosa National Park qu'on avait déja un peu exploré avec Peter. En chemin on s'arrète à Wild Horse Lookout, qui offre, après une bonne grimpette, une magnifique vue 360° sur les Glass Mountains. Ca nous a ouvert l'appétit, et en reprenant la route, on remarque le fameux coin où on a déjà mangé des supers bonnes meat pies. Evidement, on s'arrête pour en profiter à nouveau, en fait ce sera notre déjeuner (et non pas le morning tea). Arrivé à Noosa National Park, on reprend le chemin longeant la côte que l'on avait pas terminé. Il est magnifique avec des points de vue sensationnels. On finira la boucle par un chemin qui passe par la rainforest. ... read more
May 23rd 2012
Well we have made it to the Gulf of Carpentaria, not actually planned for today but we decided to push on and get here a day earlier, We are all spent!!!( We travelled around 510 ks today ) Not a great nights sleep last night, we slept between road trains wizzing by, the free camp was close to the road,as they say you get what you pay for. We stopped in Cloncurry to top up on fuel,then headed off for Burke and Wills roadhouse, a tiny Oasis in the middle of nowhere, we stopped in there and all had steak sandwhiches for lunch then headed for the Gulf, Our car copped two stone chips one has now turned into a rather large crack, we only replaced the windscreen about 4 weeks ago, so not happy!!! We ... read more
SWEET GIRONA, I MISS YOUR STREETS!
Published: May 24th 2012Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Wamberal
May 22nd 2012
Sometimes a number of things happen at the same time and you end up writing a blog about your city. Actually this blog is going to be more about these "things" than about my city. I think the whole point is to show you some pics of Girona.... maybe? So... here ya go: - I'm in Australia, far away from home and going to winter while in Girona the streets are full of flowers (look at my previous blog if interested) and everybody is enjoying their first ice-cream on a terrace in la Rambla. Spring is there, in the air, in their bodies, feeling their hormones going up and down (as they should!) and looking forward to going to summer! If I didn't have facebook (as used to be the case not long ago) I wouldn't ... read more
May 22nd 2012
What a roller coaster ride the last few days have been. Not a good idea to lose your wallet a few days before you depart for overseas... grrrr However, it has been found. Thanks mainly to the power of trust and a good friend to help you look for it. Thanks Jan for caring enough to know how I would be feeling and puting in every effort to help me. Thanks too to Mum and Pete. Anyway, all good now. Just one more thing; always have a spare set of prescription lens glasses if you need them for reading. This morning just before spending the day pouring over documents at college, I broke my specs. No time now to get some new ones made up before I leave tomorrow, so a quick trip to the pharmacy ... read more
May 22nd 2012
After Hawker, we moved south to Peterborough, which is about 250km north of Adelaide. It is absolutely a town created by a railway. South Australia originally established its rail in 1856 on what was known as broad gauge (5’3”). When the area inland was opened up, to save money they used a narrow gauge (3’6”). When the transcontinental rail arrived from NSW, it used a standard gauge (4’8½”). All these met at Peterborough so engineering works were established to service trains of all three gauges. To make things even more complicated the transshipment point from broad to narrow gauge was set up 20km south at Terowie. At this point every passenger, luggage, freight, livestock, etc had to be unloaded and reloaded onto a new train to accommodate the change of gauge. After 1883 when silver and ... read more
May 22nd 2012
This is my first entry. One week away from flying down to Sydney to get my visa!... read more
