Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4680

For those of you who have been keeping up with our blog entries, you know that in the last entry from Melbourne we said we were off to Tasmania and didn't know what to expect. Well, this is another one of those places where we were soooooo glad that we did because we both loved it! We rented a car for a week and decided just to drive around and stop at places that looked good to us. We made it a whopping 15 minutes outside of Hobart before we stopped for the night in a town called Sorrell. We got the spa room in a place called The Barracks, which you can guess by the name what it used to be, but is now a quaint B&B. I think it was built in 1829. A ... read more

We stayed at Mission Beach for 3 nights. There's not much there except for a big beach but we mainly stopped in order to go white water rafting in nearby Tully. The rafting was good fun, though would probably be better in the wet season. Many of the rapids were more like puzzles ( finding gaps big enough to pass through ) than they were white knuckle rides. Still, we enjoyed it and it was a good way to stay cool and Sara only fell out of the boat a couple of times.... read more

Ordinary Days Well, we had just another ordinary weekend. You know the type - - daily trips to the beach, a few hikes over sea-side cliffs, a Guinness Book bungee attempt, the world’s largest airplane and of course a battle with a new nasty bug. Just your basic weekend down under - - where nothing is done on the small scale. We had read that there would be some sort bungee jump attempt down at the beach on Friday morning around 8 am. So we hustled ourselves together and got down there around 7:45. Sure enough there was a decent sized crowd on the promenade along with media vans, wild, bungee-jump appropriate music, and best of all free bacon and egg rolls for everyone. It turned out the jumper was A.J. Hackett the actual inventor of ... read more

So, we're back from a wonderful trip to Queensland with just a few more days in Aussie before we head to Hong Kong. After Holden blew up in a heated argument with the shuttle driver from the airport, we found a new hostel near downtown - Wake Up Hostel. Pretty nice, but we had to room in a dorm with four other people. It wasn't that bad. One attraction we had yet to see was the Blue Mountains National Park, just two hours outside of Sydney by train. Nice day trip to a very pretty area. The pictures tell the story.......... read more

Hey mates! Alles goed daar in het verre NL? Hier is het weer een drukke week geweest. Niet zozeer met nieuwe dingen, maar ik begin wel te merken dat alle indrukken toch wel veel energie kosten. Daarnaast ook nog eens het feit dat ik nu al een maand hier alleen zit, maakt het er allemaal niet makkelijker op!! Maar goed, wat heb ik gedaan... uiteraard de hele week gewoon gewerkt. En dat gaat steeds beter mag ik wel zeggen. Ik begin steeds meer betrokken te raken bij het eigenlijke werk, en besteed (gelukkig...) steeds minder tijd aan het “mezelf bezig houden”. Er speelde al een tijdje een probleem in de software dat om onverklaarbare redenen ervoor zorgde dat bepaalde lokaties een negatief volume en aantal kregen... ik zal jullie niet vermoeien met alle details, maar dat ... read more