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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Winter… that is a surprise
It is November… no wait it is May… but it is cold… so it cannot be May… …but it is. That does sound confusing, well we are as confused as it sounds, in a funny sort of way. There is no harm here but it is interesting that our brainsContinue reading “Winter… that is a surprise”
Learning to adjust…
It is not easy to live in a place that is different to the place that you used to live before. I covered the cultural shock aspect of our immigration experience in my last post but there is more. We catch ourselves living our lives as if we were in Germany, I can not rememberContinue reading “Learning to adjust…”
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…”
It has been a year!
In a few weeks it will be 12 months since our arrival in this beautiful country. So many things have happened, so many changes and more is to come in the next few weeks. Anyone, that sees my FB page would thing it was easy and in many ways it was but it is stillContinue reading “It has been a year!”
Our last few days in Australia
After a nice flight during which Ben made lots of new friends and a great impression on a cute air hostess (is that the politically correct expression for a stewardess now days?) we landed in Melbourne and picked up our rental. It took us a little longer than we expected as they gave us aContinue reading “Our last few days in Australia”
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”
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”
The Great Ocean Road and coffee!
This will be a short post as we are at the airport right now and we will board our flight to Sydney shortly. So I will start with the important things first, got to keep our priorities straight. Coffee! I have yet to taste bad coffee here in Australia and there are coffee houses everywhere.Continue reading “The Great Ocean Road and coffee!”
Melbourne
Well, we have been here in Melbourne for the past few days and it is definitely a different Australia to the Australia that we have seen up to now. Our first impression of Melbourne is that it is a metropolis. It has a nice skyline with sky scrapers, office buildings and a victorian era trainContinue reading “Melbourne”
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