How's it going my Darlings! The past eight days here have been absolutely fabulous. Everything is so lovely and so brilliant. They do use a lot of adectives around here. I was supposed to update my blog last Saturday but we headed down to the Mornington Peninsula and Blairgowrie again, where Ben's mother Lib lives, and her internet wasn't working. That's the reason why all of my China pictures neither have the text. But I'l try to tell you about my week, witho...

Animal spotting So far we've seen: emus, koalas, birds, snakes, penguins and dead kangaroos. The road trip on the Great Ocean Road was worth driving. We started the journey in Sorrento by taking a ferry and crossing the water. We didn't proceed much during the first hours as we stopped in Torquay, The Surf Town. I visited a surf museum. I was impressed of an exhibition of Big Wave Surfing. Great photos and incredible stories of these crazy surfers who just wait...

Melbourne peninsula A couple days have passed again in this laid back country. On Thursday Tiia has her first real holiday. She slept (as usual) till quite late so I had a morning run by a lake close to their place. The first fifteen minutes I could be alone but then suddenly, I don't know where all the people appeared from, there were loads of walkers and joggers. Austarlians are quite crazy for sports. You can always see people running or cycling. What comes t...

Spring is (almost) here... Greetings from Melbourne this time! Right after landing in Melbourne I realized I have not enough clothes with me to wear in this chilly city. The cold wind really 'shocked' me on the streets of Melbourne when I was heading to the shop where Tiia works. Walking with the 20kg backpack and a lighter smaller one luckily kept me warm. My plane happened to be one hour delayed which was only a good thing cause as I arrived in the shop called...