Month: February 2018

when we reached our next destination, port campbell, yesterday we elegantly passed the masses slugging it out for a few remaining parking spots. and i mean ‘slugging’ only barely figuratively. yesterday was a nice sunny but not too warm day and we capped it off with a stroll through ‘town’. we woke to the sounds…

did i mention i like technology? things that fly? i remember i alway wanted a remote controlled aircraft, actually a bell 47 helicopter but that was hopelessly outside my financial abilities at the time (think preschool) which was just as well as i would have crashed it right away. fast forward a few years and…

i know this guy don strangest man weird kind of humour if he was an aussie you’d call him a larrikin loves practical jokes except the last one backfired got him elected to some official function in his shithouse country don’t know what he’s meant to do would not be surprised if he didn’t either…

tracking west from melbourne we have arrived at the great ocean road. we did not stop too many times, there were hordes of tourists everywhere and we could not see the sights for all the selfie sticks, not to mention the danger of getting clobbered to death. but who can resist a good lighthouse. it’s…

many people will probably rather violently disagree with me about this statement but coming from sydney there is really no reason to stop in melbourne (this is of course exactly how canberra became the capital of australia when it should have been sydney all along). there i said it, throw your stones. in my defence: when…

this may well become one of the catch cries of our trip – at least we hope so. better to have a lot of great choices re where to stay than having to settle for a second-rate spot. it’s unfortunately likely this will happen at some point, too. after leaving canberra we followed a familiar…

we said we would leave on february 1st at 12.00 noon – and we did. no idea how we managed that, we are usually not very good at sticking to set timelines and somehow this one was freaking us all out. as the deadline approached it really sunk in that we would now leave our…