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Life is what's happening while you're busy making other plans
Life is what's happening while you're busy making other plans
Life is what's happening while you're busy making other plans
15 décembre 2010

Holidays!

Holidays!
We left St George on Sunday morning. We drove to Brisbane. It was quite strange seeing real motorways and lots of cars again. We hadn't seen so many cars since we left Sydney mid-september! We just stayed overnight in Brisbane. Just enough to see the...
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8 décembre 2010

Proper work photos

Proper work photos
A couple of photos of the melon packing:
6 décembre 2010

Still in St George

Still in St George
So the time has passed, and not that many melons have been packed! The weather in Queensland this year is just completely off the charts. They have never had this much rain in years. Which makes picking melons difficult. So we've had a lot of days off,...
11 novembre 2010

Arrival in St George

Arrival in St George
The work was coming to an end at Charters Towers, so we decided it was time to look for another job in order to jump from this one to the next. It turned out that one of the couples working with us had a job lined up but that they weren't going to take,...
2 novembre 2010

Week 4 of grape picking/packing

No I'm not dead, i'm just busy packing grapes! It's been a busy four weeks. work starts at 6am and normally ends at 3pm. We got a lot of rain two weeks ago which meant the boys had the day off, while we girls continued packing what the boys had picked...
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12 octobre 2010

Road trip to Queensland and grape work

Road trip to Queensland and grape work
After our three days work in Victoria we decided that we would have more luck finding work in Queensland... which is up North of Sydney :s We called up the national harvest line and managed to get a grape picking job up in Queensland. So we hopped in...
2 octobre 2010

First work experience in Australia

Very positive! We had the chance of working for a very kind farmer called Rowan. His wheat field contained some other crop close to wheat but not exactly wheat (i'm sorry Rowan, I cannot remember the name of the crop!). He needed to get rid of this crop...
20 septembre 2010

Our super equipped van!

Our super equipped van!
I'll start with our van since in my last post I promised that I'd put up some photos. We went shopping to buy all the stuff we would need for living on the road: cutlery, pots and pans, camping stove, solar shower, jerrycan of water and petrol, dry foods...
15 septembre 2010

Sydney hesitations

More than ten days in Australia and still no new post ! I didn't want to put up a new post without any photos and truth be told, I took my first australian photos only 4 days ago ! So what have we been up to and what can be said about Australia so far...
3 septembre 2010

Sydney

Sydney
We finally arrived in Sydney after a long journey of 39hours. Surprisingly we are not too jet-lagged. During our 12 hour stop in Los Angeles, we managed to check in our luggage early and go into town. We went to Santa Monica beach. Proof here below with...
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