Travel theme: Glow
This week’s travel theme is glow. When I was in Sydney about two years ago, I visited the Vivid festival. It’s a beautiful artsy festival and the whole city seems to be glowing. Throughout the CBD there are light projections on the buildings. Here are some of my photo’s.
88 days diaries: There’s no escaping Gumeracha
I survived my last day. In the morning I had the shed to myself. There was nobody. It was quiet. At 8AM I already had two customers, brothers. They wanted 8 boxes of second grade. I just didn’t have 8 boxes. The boys were not in a rush, so as…
Weekly travel theme: round
In Australia’s outback there are a lot of curious places. One of them is a town that fully believes the aliens have landed. In the coffee shop you can find articles that tell you all about it. I wonder what would happen if you addressed your mal to space… This…
Great Ocean Road by campervan
The Great Ocean Road is best done when the sun is shining and the temperatures allow for a swim in the ocean. However, since summertime is limited, I ventured onto this scenic road in autumn. The wind was strong and cold and I was dressed in jeans and lots of…
Looking back at my time in Oz
On the 14th of February 2012 I set my first steps in Asia on a stopover in Taiwan. The excitement to start my big adventure was subdued by a nasty break up, but I tried to enjoy everything as much as I could. About a week later I landed in…
88 days diaries: When the end is near
The end of my 88 days was quickly approaching. I didn’t want to stay much longer, but how do you talk about this with a stubborn, unpredictable farmer? When the others said they wanted to leave in a week, they were sent away straight away. I wanted to do the…
The magical forest called coral
I’m only a beginner scuba diver, but when I heard about the Ningaloo reef, I just had to experience it myself. I’d done some snorkelling and was overwhelmed with what I could see close to the surface. I really wondered how much more diving deeper could give me. I decided to…
Too close for comfort
Oh, the excitement. After a night of bushcamping, there was a toilet on the picnic site where we had breakfast. I was one of the first to check it out. It just turned out that I wasn’t the only one in there. As I lowered to sit down on the…