Photo essay; beaches of WA
Most people think of the East Coast when they think about travelling in Australia. This is especially true for backpackers. However, the West Coast has got so much to offer; the beaches are pristine, the water is blue and it is way less crowded. Cape range national park has got…
Booking frustrations
Why can booking flights be so stressful? It’s lovely when you don’t care where you’re going and you stumble across a cheap fare and book it in the spur of the moment. It’s less lovely when you know you want to travel on a certain date, because your visa is…
88 days diaries: Back to the waterworks
The cherry season was fast approaching, but there was one important thing to finish out in the fields: irrigation. This time I worked with a French backpacker called Ivan. Every day we got a quad bike and a repair kit and were send to work on different areas in the…
Ancient Australian Art
Western society in Australia is young. Australia is filled with modern buildings, its streets wide and accommodating to our current lifestyles. Narrow streets like in the European cities from the middle ages are nonexistent. To me, many buidings lack the character, the charm that I see in the old cities around Europe, but…
Looking back at the 2014 society
The Adelaide Fringe Festival is still going strong. We’re about halfway through so I’m trying to find the shows worth seeing in the last two weeks. Yesterday I decided to opt for something a little different: a comedy walking tour through the city center. We were welcomed by a penguin…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned
In Quorn, South Australia, they’ve kept old farm equipment in an open air museum/park. Instead of destroying them, they left them behind on an empty piece of land, accessible to anyone who’s interested.
Karijini’s gorgeous gorges
The Karijini national park lies in the north of Western Australia. To get there you have to diverge from the road along the coast and therefore some people skip it altogether. A wasted opportunity, because the park is full of adventure. Upon entering the park you have to sign yourself…
88 days diaries: You take the baby
Whenever my boss didn’t want to have anything to do with me, he put me in the capable hands of the lead farm hand. I was ditched like an unwanted or incompetent child. I loved being ditched. The farm hand was a relaxed, kind and patient man, although I’ve no…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes
One of the most amazing places to see some of Australia’s wildlife is Kangaroo Island in South Australia. On a beach full of seals I didn’t know where to look. There was so much going on around me. Choosing three photos to tell the story was tough, since I have so…
Light up life
A great way to see the Fringe Festival on a budget is to have some patience and book your tickets between 12 and 3pm on the same day of the show, when you can get them for half the price. This is how I ended up at Luminous. Luminous is what…