Melbourne 2015 Australia without Melbourne Getting up early in the morning is one of my favorite activities when I'm at home, so why should this change when I go on holidays and traveling ... I think my travel partner
Melbourne Melbourne without Australia Day Canberra (Australia's capital) has large fireworks twice a year. New Year, and Skyfire. It's always held over the large central lake, and the riverside is always completely bustling with people on those nights.
Melbourne Melbourne and Australia Day Only three weeks of holidays to go before the University life starts again, so I guess it's time that I finally start traveling a little bit. And after it proved to be so
China Shanghai (上海市) Finally, we get to see some of these people we were promised. And after 30km of walking, we got to see a few nice sights too. I get the feeling that today, we
China Finding Civilisation Our last lecture down, some packing, and we were leaving Weihai behind in our drivers rear view mirror. I'm trying to remember, but I think this was my second ever domestic flight without
China Last Official Meal To answer your first question: No, it is not two o'clock in the morning. Not even in Australia, though they're quite a bit closer. So I've discovered the great secret to showing beautiful
China Too much sorting So, it's two o'clock in the morning, and I really should be going to bed rather than writing this blog. But at the same time, I am determined not to let things slide.
China Differences between Nations Revealed Woke up this morning to find myself bitten, twice. Even as I'm writing this entry, it itches like mad but it also doesn't look like your normal mosquito bite. What weird insects does
China Practicing Presentations Today we managed to get access to the theatre where we were going to be holding our presentation. The first thing we notice … the internet is far better in the lecture theatre than
China Hotel Room I guess today was in some ways the most relaxed day. After we have done the one 'tourist thing' there is to do in Weihai, we focused on the presentation we are supposed
China Liúgōng Island (劉公島) So, getting to our tourist island was an adventure all by itself. We told our taxi driver that we wanted to go to Liúgōng Island and to take us to the docks. When
China Shandong University English Lecture (山東大學) Came to our lecture theatre almost 10 minutes early today only to find that everybody still beat us to it. I'm slightly curious whether their previous lecture was already in the same room
China Shandong University Chinese Lecture (山東大學) At one of the official welcoming dinners, we were discussing about how we were attempting to find ways to engage students, make them participate during the lecture, answer questions and the such. The
China Shandong University Night Life (山東大學) Tradition says that when I go travelling, there must be hot chocolate. Apparently it took 5 days to fulfil this tradition, but we have finally managed. Another two hour lecture down and we
China Shandong University Campus Life (山東大學) Today's lecture was fairly late so we decided to explore Weihai a little more. Walking along the beach for a while, we managed to find a fairly large garden with large stones, small
China Shandong University (山東大學) So I finally found out why accessing my blog from China is so painful. The answer: the blog template uses a font hosted by google, and my browser always hangs attempting to get
China Weihai (威海) So, you wake up, find yourself a window, and look out to remind yourself where you were. In front of you, there's a big white circular thing known as the moon. … wait no,
China Journey to Weihai (威海) For the fact that our plane was late boarding, they didn't waste time trying to get it into the air considering that the pushback started before people were able to sit down. Flying
China 2014 Back in Sydney I was about to write that I have to cut this blog entry a bit short as my plane is about to board, and then an annoucement comes across that boarding is going
Melbourne Melbourne Well, the weather did not improve. By the time we got out, it was wet and freezing. All the signs to crawl back under the blanket and wait for the clouds to give
Melbourne Melbourne Night Jumping straight from a 20 hour day involving Sydney straight into a car headed for Melbourne. The day was going to involve roughly the same amount of driving as the previous one except
Sydney Sydney It's holidays again, and the weather is becoming marginally warm again. So what do we do? We go where it's almost warm enough to be able to walk around without three layers keeping
Japan Homestretch When you get onto a plane, you always think: "What I really want is to be surrounded by small loud children for my overnight plane." Well, I didn't quite get surrounded
Japan Narita (成田) It's actually very hard to tell whether a skyscraper is being built, or whether it's being taken down in Tokyo. The two look very similar as demolution also needs to be done very
Japan Tōkyō (東京) 2 A note about going to sleep last night, going to bed and turning off the lights was all nice and easy. What was slightly weird was how bright the room was afterwards. And