New Year’s Day Walk
A friendly man helped me and my friend to tickets to Dalkey. From Dublin it’s an easy train ride away. It was quiet on the train on this New Year’s day. In Dalkey we saw some shops, obviously closed, with a retro look. I saw them on a photo in…
88 days diaries: Back on the bikes
If you want to stay in Australia for a second year working holiday, you’ll have to do your 88 days of regional work. In the 88 days diaries I tell the story of my three months of farm work on a cherry orchard. I worked out in the fields as…
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…