La Beet

What’s this? (Buller, you can’t guess!) The weather, the food, the coffee (yes!), the nice people, the beaches… It’s just downright too nice here to even consider going home to wet, cold and stressed Europe… Sushi restaurant seen from above. Ah, just kidding. But I do have to agree with at least 10 of my [...]

Tomorrow we’re heading the app. 2.000 km. down to Sydney. It’s almost cool down there, only 19-20 degrees at night! I’ll probably need a cardigan… I’ve neglected to tell you that we live right next to a huge colony of fruit bats or flying foxes, as they are also known. They are incredibly fascinating creatures! [...]

But we made it further north to a national park called Daintree. So tropical! We visited more rainforests – both a “normal” one and a mangrove. Even if we’re “old hands” by now when it comes to rainforests, we’re still totally dazed and amazed by their greenness, their diversity, their density! On a short cruise [...]

Uh, we’ve been so busy since my last post, I don’t even know where to begin. The Rainforest Habitat is a 10 minutes walk from our dwellings, so we thought that would be a good place to start. And this place was even better than the Koala sanctuary we visited outside Brisbane. Not as many [...]

They are easy-going They are friendly They wear hats They don’t wear baseball caps A large percentage of them are of Asian origin Boys and girls wear school uniforms. Also in High School. They are mad about sport, like, eh, cricket… When they have style, they really flaunt it! When they don’t, they flaunt that [...]

We’ve been lying low for a couple of days, because Dane has been ill. As usual we have no idea what hit him, but he went down with a fever and an upset tummy. He then slept 16 hours non stop, and that was that. We visited the Saturday morning market in Chinatown (before he [...]

So we’ve arrived in Aussie-land. The Aussies are friendly, funny and straight-forward. At least the ones we’ve met so far here in VERY hot Brisbane. We’re informed that it’s not usually this hot – it can get down to 12-14 degrees celcius in the midst of winter. Brrr… We’ve spent one day in Brisbane downtown, [...]

He woke us up early in the morning, so it was only fair that he let us take his photograph.    Dane and I got some very much needed haircuts. Isn’t she gorgeous, this hairdresser from the Dominican Republic. She spoke app. 10 words of English… Our very own surfer dude… The beach at 6 [...]

Well, surprise surprise. In Las Vegas’ McCarran airport the WiFi is free. And it works. So I got my pictures uploaded. No time to load them into the blog though, so until further notice, please check them out here.

Costa Ricans, who call themselves Ticos, use this phrase all the time. It means something like “How are you”, “I’m great”, “Take care”, “Have a good life” etc. etc. Well, we had lots of Pura Vida in our three weeks in Costa Rica. More than once we considered to discard our tickets back to the [...]