HOME SWEET HOME, CAR STILL TOO OLD AND TOO SMALL... It is good to be home (although I already miss the warm Queensland weather that just embraces you when you step out the door). Within a few hours of our arrival our house was full of all the play mates from school and the neighborhood, as Daniel said with a happy smile: "The whole gang is here." The only one with a jetlag is unfortunately the only one in the house unable to look after himself, our little...

LAST STOP: SYDNEY Our first night in Sydney. We are staying at the Holiday Inn right in the Rocks, we arrive right on market day in George Street, manage to spend the last pocket money. The boys are excited, crawling in every lightpost on the harbour front, writing and drawing in their new souvenir notebooks and dancing to the sound of the street musicians. The boys finish off with a rooftop spa bath with a view of the harbour bridge, the Opera house and t...

INDIANA JONES IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS I read somewhere that if you have to chose one national park in Australia, it should be the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney, so we made this our last stop in the camper. It was quite a dramatic change in climate. All of a sudden we found ourselves in the middle of beautiful fall colours and much cooler temperatures. We arrived just around dusk to a temperature of 10 degrees which was quite a change from the constant tem...

DOLPHIN DAY The advantage to showing up at camp ground after dark is that it is a very exciting feeling to wake up and find out what is out there - and this even though little Jonathan woke up at around 6:30 am. Today we woke up in sunny Yamba, a small coastal town in New South Wales. The campground is called Blue Dolphins Holiday Resort so I had a small hope (and great wish) to see wild dolphins. So we headed off for a maybe last day on the beach. Bryan t...

THE ULTIMATE 'NERD' TRAIN EXPERIENCE In our family we have a word for those trains that are to be found in any tourist attraction to take lethargic tourists around: 'nerd' trains. I am not ashamed to admit that we have taken our fair share of these trains, but today I think we had the ultimate nerd train experience. At Tropical Fruit World we had followed the given program by first touring the plantation in a wagon drawn by a tractor. Then our guide stopp...