It has been about a year since we moved to Melbourne and I am approaching my 12 month anniversary at my current position. All the clichés apply, time flies, where did the time go and the lot but in all honesty the past 12 months have been amazing, we have made new friends and aContinue reading “12 months!”
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Cultural Shock…
Ok, it seems that my blog has generated some discussions among our own friends, for good reason that is. We have had mood swings, bewilderment, enthusiasm, borderline depression, an overwhelming feeling of everything being different, we have criticised and we have been criticised and much more. There is a name for this… …it is calledContinue reading “Cultural Shock…”
Melbourne!
Our new home is the city of Melbourne. A city of more than 4 million people in the Southeast coast of Australia. It is as far as geography is concerned very far away from anywhere. The closest “big” city is Canberra although most Australians ignore that city, Adelaide and Sydney are about a day’s driveContinue reading “Melbourne!”
Our view…
Our views have been shaped by the experiences that have brought us to this point in our life. In principal this is not very different to the other immigrants to Australia, what makes it unique in its own way are the nuances of these experiences and that is our view. I cannot talk about theseContinue reading “Our view…”
Friends, relatives and people that love you
People usually ask what is the one thing that you would like to take with you if you are ever stranded on an island, well my answer is my friends and -most- of my family. These past few weeks would not have been possible without them. On March 8th and 9th the moving company packedContinue reading “Friends, relatives and people that love you”
A trailer about our upcoming adventure
As many of us know Apple does some great products, recently I fooled around a bit with trailers on iMovie ’11. Here is an interesting trailer for our upcoming immigration to Australia.
Tropical Queensland – Part 2
We were sick by now of the rain so we decided to find a place that we at least did not get wet. It was a bit difficult as the whole region between the Fiji Islands and most of Northern Queensland was heavily influenced by a series of cyclones, the radar showed covered skies everywhere. Continue reading “Tropical Queensland – Part 2”
Tropical Queensland
It has been a few weeks since we are back home but there are a couple more posts at least to complete our trip to Australia. The last week we were there we went up to Port Douglas, fully aware that a cyclone had devastated Fiji and Whitesunday but we had booked and organized everythingContinue reading “Tropical Queensland”
Ballarat, VIC
After Sydney we flew back to Melbourne for a quick weekend before we headed out again to Port Douglas in Queensland for a week of R&R. After all when you are on vacation for two months you do get tired of it and an R&R in the tropics is the way to go. The weekendContinue reading “Ballarat, VIC”
Sydney – Part 2
Everything in Sydney is about the harbor. As one non-Sydney (how do you call someone who lives in Sydney?) resident told me Sydney is the harbor with 5% that have a view of it and 95% who want to have a view of the harbor. Any property with view of the harbor gets an instantContinue reading “Sydney – Part 2”
Sydney
When one mentions Australia there are two things that come to mind, especially after the Olympics of 2000, Sydney and beaches. Well it is all for a good reason. If there is one place that you can visit in Australia it has to be the state of New South Wales. I wondered why it isContinue reading “Sydney”
Great Ocean Road – Part 2
As far as coffee places is concerned, I stand corrected, I actually have seen a Starbucks it was empty and it is the first one after driving for about 8000km since we got here in the beginning of February and that is fine by me. The drive on the Great Ocean Road was planned fromContinue reading “Great Ocean Road – Part 2”
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