We have finally managed to buy a car. Her name is ‘Pumpkin’, she’s a Ford Falcon and her birthday is somewhere in 1993. She’s actually had to drive a fair bit in her life so far, but she seems to be quite defiant not to let it get her down. All in all we are happy with her and she’s been a bargain for 2500 AUD. Continue reading
The day after the Queen’s Birthday the weather around Sydney was brilliant, so Benn took us all out in his boat ‘Jack’. This is the video of our water skiing efforts. You would not believe how much your muscles can hurt after not even 30 minutes trying to stand up. Continue reading
It all started quite boring and innocently with a rainy 6 hour drive from Melbourne to Canberra. I had eventually met up with Dominique, one of my travel buddies (formal introductions will have to wait until Katrina, our last travel buddy, arrives in a few days), in Melbourne. She had just come back from Canberra with a friend and we decided that the cheapest option for us to get north was to drive up again to Canberra with said friend. Continue reading
I really don’t like flying when that means having to sit for close to 24 hours in a plane! But let’s start at the beginning. Checked in at Heathrow and everything went smoothly. Absolutely no problems. In the plane, a 747, I found out that I had four seats to myself. I then had a look at the movie selection and there were loads of films I hadn’t seen so far, so things just couldn’t have been any better. I was well into “Blood Diamond”, just after the scene, when this old bloke stated that if they ever found oil in Sierra Leone they would all have real problems (which is one of the funniest movie lines I’ve heard recently), when I realized that I had neither a phone number nor an address of my friend in Melbourne with me. Continue reading
My bags are packed and I’m ready go. I actually managed to fit all my stuff in just my backpack. It weighs close to 16 kilos, with the bulk, maybe 10 kg, made up by my dive gear. It feels bloody heavy, but it’ll be a lot better than carrying an extra dive bag around with me. The gear will kind of garantee at least some income, so it’s worth lugging it around. Continue reading
While I was living on Gili Trawangan in Indonesia we had a few fires there. Three to be exact. It has been a while. I don’t remember everything that happened then, but I will tell it as I remember it. Continue reading
I should have known it was a bad omen when I arrived at the bus terminal in Da Nang, Vietnam, about 10 minutes after the bus was supposed to leave and there were about 2 people, 20 sacks of rice, 20 pairs of chicken, all on the road bundled together in twos, and a couple pigs just standing around waiting for something to happen. First I thought that the bus had left already and I tried asking the vietnamese guy if I was too late for the 7 o’clock bus. Continue reading