Wwoofing Deutsche Version weiter unten :) Wwoof (willing workers on organic farms): working 4-6 hrs for food and accommodation, on mostly farms and homes with a permaculture garden). As soon as I heard of the Wwoof concept I loved it. Having acquired my membership during my stay at the Gold Coast I put it to my first use in Byron Bay and found a host in the close by hippie town of Nimbin (in the second weeks of November '13). Brian is an old-school Scottish hi...

Deutsche Version witer unten :) I realise and apologise that it has been 6 months since my last update, hence it does not make any sense to write about my travels on a week-to-week, chronological basis but rather I will re-sort my adventures and visits in various categories. Enjoy :) Ich weiss und entschuldige mich dafür, dass 6 Monate seit meinem letyten Update vergangen sind, daher macht es wenig Sinn von Woche zu Woche in Chronolgischer Reihenfolge zu sch...

After 2 wonderful weeks on the Gold Coast, I thought it would be time to finally hit the road, my first destinition being backpacker heaven and most estern point of mainland Australia: Byron Bay. I was lucky and Sharee and her mum drove me down and we visited Macadamia Castle on the way, a macadamia nuts farm with a small zoo attached to it (we fed kangaroos, cuddled little chicks and saw the cutest Wombat etc). What used to be quite the hippie community change...

On Tuesday, Sharee and me thought getting out of the city would be nice thing to do and decided to visit the beautiful, and definitely undervalued by tourists, Gold Coast Hinterland and take a walk in its lush rainforest. The weather was not too good but ignoring the thunderstorm warnings we headed out... a quarter of the way behind us we realized that the clouds were getting much too black considering that we were heading for the mountains, leaving us no other c...

Deutsch weiter unten :) My weekend started off with having some delicious sushi with Sharee, not hand rolled as almost every day up until now at the nice Sushi Train. Sat/Sun night I was staying at my friend Summer's mum's place (as unfortunately Summer is currently in Europe) and went out with her and her friends for the night. Sunday morning we went for beautiful walk along the beach and dipped into a friend's pool after, as the ocean was a little rough t...