No water here
Crossing Australia right through the middle, you’ll see different nature and come across different climates. In Adelaide summers are hot and everything starts to get dry. The bright colours turn into yellows and brown. Driver further and you’ll enter the desert. Not much grows here as it gets even hotter.…
Ayers house
The Adelaide CBD houses the former house of Henry Ayers, seven times premier of South Australia. Maybe he is mostly known to us because of the name of Uluru/Ayers rock. Mr. Ayers came from England as a member of the lower class and made his way up the social ladder quickly…
Staying with the headhunters
After driving through the jungle on a bumpy, hilly road, I saw the big wooden houses of the headhunters. It was a small village and yet it was bigger than I’d expected. I think I’d expected a single longhouse, but this was a village with modern brick longhouses as well…
O dune almighty
A day in the Sossusvlei starts early. No time for a shower or breakfast. It was still dark and the sky was covered with stars. We were on our way to the famous Dune 45, apparently the most photographed dune in the world. The best time to see the dune…
Application adventures
As my time in Australia is ticking away, it is high time to search for something new. My search brought me to the immigration website of New Zealand. Since I am on ‘the other side of the world’ anyway, I might as well explore it thoroughly. Plenty of things I’d…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition
After spending a few days in the Karijini national park in Western Australia, we were taking the main road south. It was getting late already so we decided to camp on a site next to the road. It was called ‘rest in peace lookout’. It turned out to be a…
Points of view
While traveling we encounter things we haven’t seen before. We meet people with different habits. We have to adjust to ideas that are different from our own. I’ve been to a few countries where things were different from my home. The web is filled with experiences and observations of others…
Big balls of steel
One of Brussels landmarks can be found outside the center. So on a dreary day in January I took the metro out to the Atomium. This big silver monument was built for the world expo of 1958. It is a blown up version of the element Iron, so you’ll see…