Journal: 'Australia'

bush bed in Brisbane

Sunday 23 July 2006

Around me dense bushes, mozzies constantly attacking my typing hands. On the right and behind me untamed forest; intersecting stomped down trails randomly zigzag into its depth. To my left green wetlands and before me a large waterhole or ruther lake, ducks and waterlilies decorating the surface. I hear the wind play with countless leaves, […]

Coomera

Monday 17 July 2006

After a few days of staying in different places around southport we finally managed to meet up with Carly and her partner Jesse on Wednesday. Since then we have been driving around a bit, went shopping (without actually buying much) and watched TV.
It was good to relax after lugging around our packs over all those […]

Queensland

Tuesday 11 July 2006

Long time no news from me…sorry for that!
I left Melbourne over a week ago and used my free greyhound bus ticket (which I won through some Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Backpacker site) to go via Coffsharbour to Brisbane. During my one day stopover in Coffs I asked around the marina for ships heading for the […]

hitched back from Sydney

Friday 5 May 2006

Nina and I took 4 days to hitch from Sydney to Melbourne around the coast.
Stayed in Huskisson (Jervis Bay), Bateman’s Bay, and Eden. The last two days we needed only one lift each day to get to our next destination. Pretty interesting people picked us up: an IT-consultant for Greenpeace Asia-Pacific, a Trucky supplying […]

Sydney

Saturday 22 April 2006

The last week flew past in no time. Amanda and I moved into Potts Point House, where I had stayed during my 3 month stay in 2004. We met up with German Nina, who stayed just across the road. I tried surfing at Bondi Beach, which was my second time after Mike from Melbourne took […]

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