Tassie

Dansk

Jamen halløjsa,

Hjemvendt fra Tasmanien. En dejlig tur på 5 dages tid, hvor jeg fik set lillebroderen til Australien. Desværre fandt jeg ikke min egen Mary Donaldson (nej den joke bliver aldrig gammel). Jeg har allerede lagt nogle billeder op, og der vil formentlig komme flere til.
Vi ankom til Hobart tirsdag morgen, efter en lille flyvetur. Derefter fik vi vores lille campingbus eller hvad man kalder sådan en. Vores tur kunne begynde og den første seværdighed vi besøgte, var Port Arthur, et nedlagt fængsel. En spændende oplevelse, hvor jeg desværre må erklære at jeg ikke fik set spøgelset af den lille pige. Øv øv øv. Onsdag kørte vi op langs østkysten til en park. Det var her at jeg fik set min første wallaby 'in the wild nature'. Utrolig hvor tomhjernet man bliver, når sådan et lille kræ kommer hoppende. Ihvertfald fik jeg taget omkring 30 billeder af en busk og nogle ører. Senere fik jeg dog et par ordentlig billeder af min lille ven. I denne park fik vi også nydt et godt måltid til en vidunderlig udsigt. Generelt var Tasmanien en smuk ø, imodsætning til Fyn. Vi må bygge et bjerg på fyn og nogle ordenlige strande. Torsdag fik jeg lov til at køre. In Launceston skulle jeg drøne rundt, som en forvirret gås, idet vi ikke anede hvor vi skulle hen. Ud på den rigtige motorvejen kom jeg dog. Efter et hurtigt stop på en rimelig kedelig hindbærfarm, endte vi i vores anden park. Her fik jeg lov til at holde en lille wombat, hvilket på den ene side var stor oplevelse, men dog var den wombat ikke specielt glad for at en dansk idiot skulle holde om den, så den gjorde sit bedste for at komme væk. Der ud over fik jeg i denne park set tasmanske djævler, en kookaburra, kænguruer, flere wallabies og voksne wombats. En dejlig tur, og det var meget specielt at komme så tæt på dem. Fredag kørte vi tik Cradle Mountain, hvor vi gik en lille tur, der varede 2½ time. Lørdag kørte vi tilbage til Hobart, da vi ville se lidt af "storbyen". Flere af de byer vi havde kørt igennem på Tassie, bestod af 10 huse, og så var den by slut. I Hobart fik vi set en juleparade og der var ligeledes et marked. Underligt at se julemanden, når det føles som om det er sommer. Jeg fandt også lige en butik, hvor de solgte danske ting og havde lidt dansk historie. Om alt var korrekt, vil jeg ikke udtale mig om. Nå men campingbussen blev afleveret, flyet blev nået og nu er jeg tilbage i Melbourne, godt i gang med at planlægge den næste tur. Alt går godt, og billetten tilbage til DK i marts, bliver snart bestilt.

English

Hello hello,

Back from Tassie. It was nice to spend five days on the little brother of Australia. Sadly I did not find me a Mary Donaldson, say the prince of Denmark did. I've already uploaded some pictures of the trip, but I'll probably upload more, after I get the pictures from the friends I travelled with.
We arrived in Hobart, tuesday morning after a short flight from Melbourne. We picked up the caravan that we had paid for and was ready to begin the trip. The first thing we saw was a Port Arthur, a prison that had been closed down. Very interesting to listen to the stories about the prison. Sadly I did not see the little ghost-girl, that aparently is haunting there. Wednesday we droe up the East coast to the first park. It was a very beautiful drive. In the park I saw my first wallaby. It is amazing how stupid you get, when there is a small wallaby close by. Think I took like 30 pictures of a bush with ears. Okay I did get a few good ones after the wallaby came out of the bush. In the park we had lunch with a great view.
Thursday was my turn to drive. A confused goose in the middle of Launceston, is how I would describe it. We had no idea, where we were, and then it's not really fun being a driver of a big caravan on the "wrong" side of the road. Haha but we found our way. At the next park we saw more of the Australia animals, such as wombats, Tasmanian Devils, more wallabies, kangaroos and a kookaburra. It was amazing to get so close to the animals. Even though I must say that when I was holding the little wombat, I didn't get the feeling that he really liked it or trusted me. But come on, who would?
Friday we went to Crandle Mountain. It was really nice and we went for the shortest walk around a lake. It took about 2½ hours. I think it was really beautiful Crandle Mountain.
Saturday we drove back to Hobart, because we wanted to see a bit of the "big city". It was scary to see that some to the towns in Tassie only had around 10-20 houses. A town/city on the map and still there aren't more than 10-20 houses (it's a ghost town if you ask me). In Hobart we saw a christmas parade and they also had a market. It is so weird that they are having christmas parades at the moment. It does not feel like christmas at all. I also found a Danish shop, but lets just say that not everything in the shop, was a symbol of Denmark. We handed in the caravan, flew back to Melbourne and that's where I am now. Planning my next trip. Everything is fine and I'm soon going to change my ticket to marts, where I'm returning to Denmark.

Here we go again

Hej allesammen!

Det må være på tide med endnu et indlæg. Jeg nærmer mig 4. måned i Melbourne, hvilket er helt vildt. Tiden er gået utrolig stærkt, og jeg kan slet ikke forstå, at vi allerede er i november måned. Desuden er varmen kommet. Jeg er ligesom en isterning i en ovn. Desværre bliver det kun varmere med tiden.

Men hvad har jeg så fået tiden til at gå med? Skolen har taget meget af min tid, da RMIT som jeg allerede har nævnt, kræver meget af os. Jeg har klaret mig rigtig godt i mine fag er meget tilfreds med min indsats. Eksamerne er også overstået, og nu kan jeg så bare vente på resultatet.

Der ud over har jeg været til Melbourne Cup, som I kan se i de billeder jeg har uploadet (ja jeg har endelig fået smidt nogle billeder op). MC var en positiv oplevelse, selvom jeg fik alt for meget sol i ansigtet, og nu kan komme i top 3 i en Rudolf-look-alike konkurrence.

I fredags holdte jeg så 2 julefrokoster. Den første julefrokost var med ca. 25 gæster hvoraf hovedparten var danskere. Om morgen havde jeg så julefrokost eller hvad man skal kalde det med 5 danske kammerater gennem Skype. Øl og burgere kl. 6 om morgen i en allerede beruset tilstand, kan kun være en succes.

Ellers kan jeg fortælle at jeg vender tilbage til Danmark i marts måned. Jeg har fået en mulighed som jeg ikke kan sige nej til. Kort fortalt så vil jeg skrive om en virksomhed i Bangladesh og det kræver at jeg er i Danmark og kan rejse til Bangladesh. Hvornår jeg rejser og i hvor lang tid, det kan jeg ikke fortælle på nuværende tidspunkt, men formentlig bliver det fra maj til juni måned.

Mine rejseplaner lyder som følgende. Jeg tager til Tasmanien om 9 dages tid, herefter rejser jeg med at tage til Aderlaid i slutningen af november, starten af december vil jeg gerne til Sydney. Herefter håber jeg lidt på at tage videre til Brisbane og Cairns. I februar vil jeg så forlade Australien og tage til New Zealand. Igen så er det kun Tasmanien der er sat fast. Mine andre planer er meget fleksible.

Jeg kan forresten lige indskyde at jeg skal til Australian Open i slutningen af januar, så det kan være I er heldige at se mig :-)

Det må være nok for denne gang. Dog lover jeg at jeg skriver meget snart igen. Desuden er det jo også kommet billeder op.

Martin

En sidste ting før jeg slutter af. Nu hvor jeg er færdig med skolen, så har jeg meget mere tid. Og da jeg er blevet en stor fan af skype, så kan folk bare skriv til mig og vi kan aftale en skype-tid. Hmm hvordan det kom til at lyde som et indlægt i en kontakt annonce, forstår jeg ikke.



Hey everyone!

I think it's time for me to write something again. I'm closing up on 4 month in Melbourne. It's crazy. Time is flying by and I still can't believe that it's already November. Furthermore the warmth has come to Melbourne and I'm like an ice cube on an oven. And sadly i know that it's only going to become warmer. HELP me ;)

So what have I been doing? School has taken a lot of my time. I have just finished the exams and overall I'm very happy with myself. I've done my best and participated in the classes. The only thing I can do now is to wait for the results. Don't worry though, I have already passed all the courses.

I have been to the Melbourne Cup, which you can see in the pictures (yes finally there are pictures on the blog). MC was a very pleasant experience even though horseriding isn't my cup of tea and the sun wasn't very nice to me at the Cup. I look like Rudolf right now.

Friday I had two Christmas dinners. At the first one we were around 25 people and most of them were Danes. No big suprise there. In the morning I then had my second Christmas dinner though Skype. Beer and hamburgers. Does it get better than that? And I was already drunk at the point so what a big succes. It's a great talking to some of my Danish friends.

I can tell all of you that I'm coming back to Denmark in Marts. An opportunity has arised that I just can't say no to. I don't want to go into details but I'm going to write about a company from Bangladesh in my thesis and therefore I need to be back in Denmark. Around May I will go to Bangladesh to do some research for about a month, I think.

So my travelling plans in Australia. I haven't made the big plans yet, other than I'm going to Tasmania in around 9 days. Other than that I think I'm going to Aderlaid in the end of this month, then I want to go to Sydney in the beginning of December and then Brisbane and Cairns. New Zealand will be my last stop in February. Everything can change though.
Oh yes I'm going to Australian Open in the end of January so to all my tennis friends, you better be wacthing when I'm there.

I think that was it for now. I promise that I'll write much more soon.

Martin

Oh yes one final thing. I have much more time on my hands at the moment and I do enjoy to skype so if anyone wants to Skype with me, I'm more than ready.