Europe 2016 Squidgy Jeans After somebody's phone kept going off during the night, getting up at 6:30 was really welcome and nice. It only needed two people to get my claws out of the bed and
Europe 2016 Calm water It's interesting to watch the Mediterranean Sea, as it is dead calm. I managed to see waves role into the beach, but they wouldn't even reach up to my ankles. On the road
Europe 2016 Someone got brave Yesterday: "We should get out by 9 o'clock" This morning, 8:50: "Do I have to get up now?" Baby steps. At least we didn't ask this question after
Europe 2016 More tourists After trying to work out yesterday where we can actually park the car, my travel companion seems to have had a few nightmares and rolled out of bed really early, to check something
Europe 2016 Scenic ocean My travel companion makes a lot of comments about how it's safe to do certain things again, now that he's close to Italy. Amongst this list has been ordering coffee and eating pizza.
Europe 2016 Croatia, now with light I kept on expecting to be woken up by the city noise, people shuffling past, odd person complaining loudly about getting their head detached. After an abundant lack of any of this, by
Europe 2016 Croatia It started raining again, so it is high time that we bail the country. Drive down to Switzerland and then fly to Croatia. Our route took us twice into Switzerland with a brief
Europe 2016 Pony Today, I learnt an important lesson that has gotten me into big trouble many times in the past. What is a Pony and what is a Horse? The answer: a Pony is under
Europe 2016 Daimler, Benz, Maybach and Mercedes Going through the house this morning and evaluating the damage of the storm was fun. One picture crooked, one fell over, garden had the chairs all over, and one bucket was spotted with
Europe 2016 Summer is on a Friday this year Yep, it's actually warm today, and people still laugh at me for wearing a jacket. But at least I don't glow in the dark now like some of us. After about 50 metres
Europe 2016 German punctuality I keep on getting told that the German trains are very punctual, which is always something I've taken with a grain of salt. The first reply is: "Yes, because 15 minutes late
Europe 2016 Kids I think, today might have been a bit of a lesson of why I will never have kids. I got to play a little bit baby sitter, which I've discovered is an extremely
Europe 2016 Stranger Language I survived last night till about 11pm, or about 7am in the previous time zone, so plan "don't get jetlag" has been crowned a success. Unfortunately, I didn't have the best
Europe 2016 Strange language 30 hours of travelling, but we've finally arrived on the other end of the planet. In Australia it was my thermometer that got me pulled over, in Thailand it was my battery brick.
Melbourne Thunderstorms (Melbourne Style) Wake up, look at phone: forecast 100% chance of thunderstorms. Get up, look out of windows: blue skies. And this was a trend that kept us on our toes for quite a few
Melbourne Australia Day in Melbourne (again) History appears to be repeating itself slightly here as last year, I also spent Australia day driving down to Melbourne and spending the day here. There are however a few important differences. Like
Adelaide Semaphore Beach As a computer scientist, I of course tried to look hard for some kind of interface to the semaphore but all I found was a full glorious beach. And while it was slightly
Adelaide Hahndorf Hahndorf, the oldest surviving german settlement. This is a fact that you are incapable of missing if you didn't go through Hahndorf while yelling at the top of your voice with your eyes
Adelaide Adelaide After a miserable nights sleep, I somehow managed to draw myself out of bed. The friend I'm staying with got up around two hours before me to go to work, but that didn't
Adelaide Roads, more roads, and cows? Technically I'm starting this blog late as I started travelling yesterday. Realistically, I started driving yesterday, and arrived today. Turns out Australia is big. And having the distance being in quadruple digits should
Australian Coast Sunrises and Crabs There was significant debate whether we should get up at 5 in the morning to be able to watch the sunrise over the beach. The biggest hurdle when we were trying to decide
Australian Coast East Coast It's important to put which coast we are travelling to into the title as one of our travel companions seems to have constant trouble remembering which direction we are going. And then worries
Melbourne And Great Ocean Road 2015 Great Ocean Road After the glorious achievement of actually getting all seven uni students out of bed, the great ocean road was tackled. It's still overcast, and the roads were slightly damp, but they didn't manage
Melbourne Melbourne, the fast version So I've discovered how it can be so cheap to get a bed in the middle of downtown Melbourne. You give a permit to the workers over the road to keep working through
Melbourne And Great Ocean Road 2015 Melbourne Student Life So, usually when I go to Melbourne, I try to leave in the morning so that it's during the day where the Kangaroo's aren't quite as car-happy. But good students also have to