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

31 mars 2011

This is the end... of down under

We've booked our tickets for Bali! We land on the 15th of April. We'll be working at the Holiday Inn until the 12th, then off to Darwin to catch our flight and move on to the third and final part of the trip. Very excited. We've gone six months in the...

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5 mars 2011

Staying it is!

We landed the job at the Holiday Inn in the Kakadu National Park. We started work on Wednesday already. Thomas is in charge of cleaning all public areas (reception, staircases, conference rooms, toilets etc) and I am waitressing in the hotel restaurant....

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22 février 2011

Staying?Leaving?

We love to improvise but these days it's just been ridiculous. Since we haven't worked since mid-December, we've spent nearly all the money we earned while working in Australia. We were hoping to sell the van quickly at a good price in Darwin, and then...

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19 février 2011

End of Red Center

We finished the crossing of Australia under the rain! Turns out a cyclone was forming above Darwin, just as we were arriving. So unfortunately the visits we wanted to do on the last two days of the road trip had to be cancelled - no Litchfield National...

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10 février 2011

The great outback

This is it! With a brand new battery, a new air filter, new engine oil, lots of food and almost 50 liters of water, we started our great journey from Adelaide to Darwin yesterday. That's 3000 kilometers of straight line through the desert. Which is not...

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6 février 2011

Great Ocean Road

Since Thursday we have left Melbourne, heading towards Adelaide via the Great Ocean Road. It's a great drive, with beautiful views of the coast. Just to drop a few names : Great Otway national park (did some ziplining there, thank you family for a great...

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30 janvier 2011

Australia Day

The 26th of january was Australia Day. We spent the day in Cronulla, a suburb south of Sydney. We were woken up early as some people were already around their bbq, cracking open a beer at eight am. The beach was jam packed with people. Everyone was going...

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20 janvier 2011

And we're back in reality!

The ten day meditation course is over. I am allowed to speak again :D It was a really tough ten days, but overall a wonderful experience that I can only recommend. 17 hour days of which 11 are spent meditating. The rest of the time, no talking and no...

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6 janvier 2011

See you in two weeks!

We've slowly been making our way back towards Sydney, stopping for a rest in Griffith (too hot: 42 degrees) and in Orange (cold and stormy). In 2 days we'll be starting our 10 day meditation course (Vipassana) up in the Blue Mountains, so don't expect...

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25 décembre 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone had a very merry christmas and was not stuck in some snowed-in airport across Europe! Thomas and I spent Christmas in Temora, a small country town about 1h away from Wagga-Wagga. We are staying with my friend Kristy and...

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