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    • Day 10

      Ab nach Byron Bay

      January 6 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 21 °C

      Jetzt geht das Backpacking richtig los. Voll gepackt sind Zhana und ich mit dem Zug zum Greyhound Busstop gefahren und sitzen jetzt in einem Bus, voll mit Backpackern auf dem Weg in den Norden. Es geht nach Byron Bay. 11h Fahrt liegen vor uns, also deutlich länger als der Flug von Hong Kong nach Sydney gedauert hat. Wenigstens ist es über Nacht und vlt. kann man hier ja auch schlafen.Read more

    • Day 38

      The Return Journey

      October 3, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

      Return journeys are funny things. Some people can't wait to get home, while others don't want to go back at all. Me? A little ambivalent. Part of me wants to keep on going. Part of me wants to returm home. It's been such an intense 38 days that it is somewhat challenging to just stop all of a sudden. My brain is still on go.

      We are doing pretty well especially given that we've just completed a 22 hour flight and are now doing a 3 hour train trip from Sydney. We need to be home to receive some deliveries tomorrow otherwise we would have stayed over night in Sydney and slept. As it is, we'll have a post 1am arrival in Newcastle. But it is what it is. Travelling has its challenges as only travellers will fully undertand. There are lots of times where aceptance of a situation is your only way through and your only link to sanity.

      Actually, our flight went better than what I thought it would. Definitely better than the same flight over to the UK. I am wondering whether the difference is that we flew out out of London in the later morning and so had many hours of daylight to fly in before getting tired and hunkering down later in the night. Whereas we flew out of Sydney a month ago in the late afternoon just before sunset, into the dark, but full of adrenalin.

      Personally, apart from Typhoid Mary sittiing across the aisle from me who coughed from London to Singapore and would not wear a mask, my flight was pretty good, as far as you can call long-haul flights good. I spent the time reading a whole book, Travels with Epicurus - Meditations from a Greek Island on the Pleasures of Old Age by Daniel Klein, watching the remaining six episodes of The Gilded Age starring Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon, a catty gossipy 1850s New York high society story in dresses, bonnets, parlours and balls, eating and sleeping, or more properly called when flying, napping.

      I now have aches and pains in my body in places that I did not know existed. We are both pooped physically, but emotionally, we're in a good place, happy that we have undertaken this odyssey, having talked a lot about us during its course, laughed a lot, and looked out for each other every day.

      I am sitting on the train now as I write this last footprint. It still feels a bit weird, a bit foreign to be back here, but that will melt away pretty quickly I think and in the meantime, I can look forward to us sleeping in our own bed, having our own shower and bath back again, having tasted of the delights of world travel in an adventure that neither of us will ever forget. At the end of a very long day, it is good to be going home.
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