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    • ResenärFunemployment - Part II
      Dag 35

      The Ashes Test Match

      4 december 2017, Australien ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

      I stayed two whole days in Adelaide. Apart from hanging out and eating with my friends, my fourth foray to Adelaide marked another new first for me - my first cricket match.

      My visit happened to coincide with the Ashes Test between Australia and England, so I joined Trixie, Charles and their friend Lisa to watch the third day match at the Adelaide Oval. I knew next to nothing about cricket. Much to Trixie’s chagrin, my first observation watching the Ashes on television while we were on the Great Ocean Road was that the Australians wore tighter trousers than the British. I was in for a crash course on bowling, batting, wickets, and everything else in between. I approached this event as a cultural experience, much like how I approched watching baseball at the Dodgers Stadium, college football when I was at UCLA, soccer at Manchester United, rugby union at Sale Rugby Club in Manchester, etc. I rooted for England, my former home.

      To my surprise, I actually enjoyed watching cricket. The pacing of the game was consistent, the crowd was very congenial, and parts of the play were actually quite exciting, especially towards the end of the evening with England batting. The end of play that day was a little abrupt, though; the players just walked off the field when their run was completed. I also developed a new sports crush - Australian cricketer Pat Cummins😁. The icing on the cake was getting to watch aircraft after aircraft descend into Adelaide Airport as I observed the match.

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    • Resenärbackpacking down under
      Dag 146

      Chill @ woodcroft! and stress @ adelaide

      9 februari 2017, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 37 °C

      Monday was a chill day and I stayed the whole day @ Joll. Watched a few movies and downloaded a lot of new ones. I enjoyed the time over here! Just like friends in Netherlands!.

      Tuesday I went to get my Dutch simcard, finally I got a new one after 3 months. Slow ozzies here. I also went to a mechanic to make an appointment to check my car for rego. It's real 'easy' here in Australia because every state is like another country in Europe. So imagine to do apk and register your gar in Germany for a dutch license plate. That's like insane. And that's exactly what I have to do here.

      After a half day calling and searching I know what my opinions are.

      Car is registered in nsw. To renew for nsw I need to do the following things.
      1. Get CTP insurance ($610)
      2. Check your car at an registered mechanic, in nsw($38) or Sa ($120) or VIC ($180)
      3. register online for new rego ($512) with road tax

      I need to do this before 26 Feb 2017. And I'm not gonna be in nsw that time, nearest is around 350km from border. So it would cost me around $100 for fuel to drive to one in nsw.

      Best would be 610+120+512= $1242 for 12 months

      If I transfer my registration to SA I would pay for rego, CTP insurance and road tax around $800.

      Thats a lot cheaper and I get new plates. But I have to sell my car in Sa if I leave Australia. And I wanna sell my car in nsw because that's my last location.

      So I think it's best to just pay more and hope to get more for my car in Sydney when I'm selling it..

      After this day I think that I know more about vehicle registration than most Australian do (including mechanics). Pretty insane right!

      Well wensday a vehicle check and a/c check. And then back to the farm to do another few days.

      At the end of the day I climbed to mount lofty, you can see all of adelaide from the peak. It took me 1:45 to go up and down. Total track was 8km and some pieces pretty steep. So not to bad while I haven't hiked for a long time. But it was really good, I needed the physical workout!

      Today I had the check and it doesn't look that good. A/c Compressor is broken, don't need to fix it for rego. Front Brake discs and pads have to be replaced, need 3 new tires and new Cilinders for brakes back. Those 3 things would cost me 1500 over there. That's way to much! So I looked first for another car. But yeah now I need to pay around 1500 a 2000 to fix my car. But then I don't need to do anything anymore. And to get another car I maybe spend 1000 a 2000 so. Maybe better to keep my car.

      I called my friend mohamad in Sydney if he could help me. He said I could fix my own car in his workshop and get a bit of help. Everything will cost me now probably around 1000 and that's including fixing the airco. So thats a lot better.

      So after my OTR trip I'll be heading to Sydney for a short week and then go back to Melbourne.      Läs mer

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    • ResenärTassiezone
      Dag 1

      Arise of Tassiezone

      7 februari 2017, Australien ⋅ 🌙 24 °C

      Today I posted an add on Facebook that I was looking for a travel mate. Within a few hours I found someone! Haha that was really quickly. And she had almost thesame plans and dates.

      Unfortunately a few hours later I had a lot of reactions from other people who wanted to travel with Me. Some where already with 2 persons. It can be really annoying if you travel with someone random you are together for almost 2 weeks so it could be that you gonna hate something on eachother. And when you are traveling with a group you just gonna hang out with someone else.

      So I thought, maybe if we have a few persons together we can travel with a group. But I'll see for now how many reactions I get. Unfortunately I got a lot more reactions.

      So I decided to make a group with all the people I know wanna travel at thesame time.

      You probably would be thinking, why tazziezone? Well I'll probably not be able to go to campzone. So why not make our own variant of campzone. And tassie is short for tasmania. So tassiezone! Currently I just feel like y'tje (yvan) from campzone! He didn't choose to be our hero but most people chose him :-P y'tje is definitely my hero! I really like his spicy nuts!

      So I try to be the hero of this group and hopefully I Learn a lot! Also a few bad habits I gonna introduce on this group. One is the beer count system, who yells one gets the beer and he get the amount of beer that's called. Second thing is perudo.. OMG Really! Yeah really. BEST GAME EVER!

      Currently I got 8 people together. And I'm the only one with a car. Hopefully it fits :-P.      Läs mer

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    • ResenärMaking Traxx
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      Dag 14

      Day 14 - Peterborough to Port Turton

      14 maj, Australien ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

      Slow start this morning, had a late night with the Train Show. Quick stop at Chemist for Script, couple of things from Food Works and we left Peterborough.

      The most notable thing is how dry it is, I was talking to a lady last night and she mentioned how worried the farmers are that they have had no rain for months. The lady I spoke to is married to Bill Sauers brother, we had a lovely chat after the show, for those that don't know - Bill was my Plant Manager for 10 years (he employed me when I joined JBS) he is a lovely man and a good boss.

      We took a few back roads down the Peninsular (much to Wayne's annoyance) went through heaps of Wheat fields that are just stubble. Not what we expected, Wayne thought it would be timbered, I thought it would be green. Both wrong, very dry and desolate landscape. I was surprised that the Peninsular was so wide, I had a picture of driving down the middle and having water on both sides....very wrong. It was great to sea the ocean after being away from it for 2 weeks....we do love our water.

      Every mountain range has rows of Wind Turbines, not expecting to see these, there are a lot of properties covered with Solar Panels also, so they are obviously trying different ways to create/save electricity.

      We arrived at around 3.30 to the most awesome place to stay - Port Turton...what a surprise. Love it, tidy little caravan park right on the water, good amenities, grass sites and 2 minutes from a jetty which looks great for fishing. Walked down there as soon as we had set up camp (15 mins after arriving), talked to a few fishermen, and a local who gave us a couple of tips on places to see while we were here. A lady was swimming laps next to the jetty, said she does it most days (her time away from the kids), I told her I would probably join her tomorrow afternoon.

      There were about 10 different types of Stingrays in the water where she had been swimming and one huge one about 2m across, the lady jumped back in the water to steer it in my direction so I could get a photo, (which doesn't do it justice) Wayne said it is the biggest, fattest ray he has ever seen. The local man mentioned to us that it was the same Ray that killed Steve Irwin - Wayne of course replied with 'Gee it was come a long way' - the guy didn't get it.

      So excited to be back at the water and the Peninsular looks beautiful, can't wait to explore over the next four days. Forgot to mention I have solved the problem of trying to navigate on my phone (reading glasses) and see where we are actually driving (distance glasses) - see photo of how clever I am.....looks silly but it works.      Läs mer

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    • ResenärMaking Traxx
      Dag 16

      Day 16 - Thursday - Point Turton

      16 maj, Australien ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

      Got up early with the sun 7.30 haha - strange place. Washing everything as its a beautiful day. Wayne connected the greywater pipe into the system, we usually just have a bucket. Jobs done now off to explore.

      Warooka was a small country town, then into Yorketown which was surprisingly big, picked up a couple of things from the bottle shop, Foodworks & Chemist.

      I asked for directions to the Pink Lakes, got sent to the Tourist Information Centre as the lady couldn't tell me. Anyway we checked out a couple but they aren't Pink - just salt. Nevermind, I'm sure we will find some along the way.

      Then off to Edithburgh, interesting sign as you come into town, There is an amazing horse made from bits and pieces - she is called 'Edith the Draughthorse'. The Wind Turbines around the town are crazy, so many. Bought Fish n Chips to have at the Jetty (Wayne is going fishing tomorrow). Really impressed with King George Whiting. Then drove around 'the Heal of the foot' see yesterday's map.

      The road wound around the edge of the coast which went from flat beaches to high cliffs, very clear water and still no wind (fingers crossed it stays that way). Not sure if I'm happy that is only 22 deg so too cold to swim as there are the White Pointer Sharks down here so the temptation isn't that bad.

      Saw a couple of Painted Silos, the second one was especially bright. Lots of dirt roads around this beautiful coastline but in good condition. Saw a pod of Dolphins herding some bait and something bigger, maybe salmon, onto the rocks and having a good feed.

      We are blown away by the Seagulls down here, they are huge compared to ours at home, Wayne recons they are threatening him, 'either feed me or we will attack'.

      Went to a Tackle shop as Wayne forgot is Filleting Knife - good vibes for tomorrows fishing day. Also got some bait, covering all his bases with bait and lures.

      Nearly back to Point Turton and noticed a massive fire in the distance, hope it is just a farmer burning off. Fuelled up at Yorketown $1.959      Läs mer

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    • ResenärMaking Traxx
      Dag 18

      Day 18 - Sat. - Still at Point Turton

      18 maj, Australien ⋅ 🌙 10 °C

      Taj's 10th Birthday. Missing the boys heaps, big and small. Housework/Maintenance day today for us both. Wayne on the car, fixing the trailer connection (which I may have broken ages ago), tracking down and fixing a squeak under the car and repairing a valve on the water inlet into the Van that has never worked...very productive day.

      Amazing how dusty/sandy the Van gets, so lots to clean, in between calls from the 'Repair Man' get me a screw driver...no not that one the smaller one !!!!

      Wayne needed a part for the trailer connection so we did a quick run into Warooka, only about 10 mins from Turton. I found a painted tank - so of course took a photo.

      Its cold, overcast and windy today, so not a good fishing day, but he tried, only caught some seaweed. We were going to check out tomorrow and go the beach camp but decided to extend another day and see what the wind is going to do.

      Still having problems with our gas bottles, can't run more than one hotplate at a time, when we swap over to the other bottle, its fine. Change back to No.1 bottle the next day and its fine....we are very confused. Any ideas are welcome.

      Wayne thought it was funny that he is sitting watching the footy while I wash and dry up.....he has been very good with his cooking outside and drying up, guess the footy is too hard to resist. All good.

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    • ResenärSingapore, Adelaide & Dubai
      Dag 12

      Adelaide

      14 juli 2012, Australien ⋅ 🌧 12 °C

      I don't recall much about my time in Adelaide other than lots of good food and good company. Although I am sure I took more photos, I could only find one; it was a photo of a paella we made at Trixie's at a gathering with her friends.Läs mer

    • ResenärMaking Traxx
      Dag 17

      Day 17 - Friday - Point Turton

      17 maj, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

      Dragged myself out of bed for the sunrise which happened at 7.10...yes I know its very late. The days are short here - sunset is 5.20pm. Anyway it was stunning, quite cool, I had a hot cuppa, trackies plus a scarf, just taking some awesome photo's when along comes a group of ladies, then another group - total of 11 of these insane ladies who all jumped into the water and started walking around, not swimming briskly which I would have done....crazy.

      Went back to the Van to get Wayne out of bed, we were going exploring again, he was so excited...not ! Stopped at a few beaches travelling north up the Western side of the leg (see map). Flaherty Beach was the first one, which we had been told was beautiful. Driving along behind the houses, I saw more Furgie Tractors than I had seen my whole life. Every house has their own Tractor to launch their boats, just like the old Emu Park days.

      Unfortunately, it was low tide, so the beaches were very shallow, so decided to drive all the way up to Port Hughes, which is outside Yorke Peninsular, then work our way back down.

      Wayne is addicted to the King George Whiting (he assures me he is going fishing tomorrow to catch some) after he has done some maintenance. Quick lunch, and we started coming back via every dirt road known to man kind (guess who's comment that was). We went to Port Vincent, which was windy, but I did take a photo of the toilet block.

      We drove down to a few more of the beaches coming back but there isn't a coastal road, so you have to drive in and out from the highway, yes on dirt roads. Went into Wauraltee Beach, which is gorgeous, we are planning to stay there when we leave here on Sunday. Will be our first beach camp...Yay.

      Got back to Turton and drove past the park to Magazine Bay. A lady on the Jetty had told us it's a must to see. She was right. It's protected from wind, lovely pebbly beach, and a cave you can climb up to and enjoy the view. It even has carpet in the cave -we accidently interrupted a young couple....oops. Will be going back tomorrow for a swim.

      We are off to the Tavern for dinner again tonight, slack I know, but it's too easy.

      Happy Birthday for Taj tomorrow, sorry not going to see him.      Läs mer

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    • ResenärAustralia
      Dag 23

      Haigh's Chocolate

      31 mars 2022, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

      I'm definitely bringing some of this home with me!

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    • 2023 National Caravan Rally
      Dag 30

      Adelaide not as Planned

      7 april 2023, Australien ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      The day before arriving in Adelaide Paul took a bit of a turn and we tested for Covid but seemed okay but he was quite sick with a fever. By the time we reached Adelaide and another bad night we did another Covid test and this time it was positive.
      By Saturday Sue was starting to come down with similar symptoms. Didn’t bother testing, figured it was a foregone conclusion.      Läs mer

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