All fairytales must come to an end, and so did our adventures Down Under. It has been an AWESOME year, that went by way too quick. We met amazing people, that made their ways straight to our hearts. We saw views we’ll dream about forever. We had some sh*tty moments that will make great…
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During our year of traveling, we stayed at so many different campgrounds with so many different toilets. Sometimes good toilets, sometimes, euhm… Let’s say that once in a while we preferred to dig a hole in the ground instead of using the real thing! There were times when we found frogs, lizards or spiders next…
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Australië heeft een fantastische collectie vogels. Sommige papegaaien zijn in België wel duizenden euro’s waard. Je hebt ze in verschillende kleuren en groottes. Niet enkel de papegaaien zijn fantastisch. Een zeer speciale vogel, tevens de nationale vogel van Australië, is de Kookaburra. Deze vogel wordt “The Laughing Bird” genoemd. Wanneer je hem hoort “fluiten”, lijkt…
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In the beginning of the year, we had high hopes of finding an awesome, mad-max-style beast of a 4WD for less than 10000 dollars… Of course, after 2 weeks of disappointing test drives in outright dangerous vehicles, we decided we had to compromise and go for a smaller, more reliable car. All of a sudden,…
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We all know that Santa’s quite busy around Christmas, so he has some helpers. But did you ever wonder where all his helper-buddies come from?! We found out about the selection and their training! They all come from Melbourne and spread over the world to do Santa-stuff as soon as the 4 round training is…
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Gedurende het voorbije jaar hebben we meer nachten gespendeerd in een tent dan onder een echt dak, en dat vonden we geweldig! Natuurlijk was het niet altijd ideaal. De tent heeft zeker haar portie regen, wind, en ongelukjes gezien. Na één maand vroegen we ons al af of deze tent december wel zou halen… Maar…
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Sheltering from the storms in Victoria had its advantages, especially because it was also the weekend of Claudia’s birthday! Because the Southeast of Victoria had a rainy forecast for the whole week (our last week camping), we decided to go back West a bit, where the weather’s better. We had heard a lot about Bendigo,…
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The heaviest rainfall since 1992 is hardly a good time to go camping, even for Belgians, who are used to bad weather. It didn’t seem like a smart idea to us to keep camping beside a river that might flood at any time, so we packed up our gear and headed to a dryer part…
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We’ve already written about how awesome camping along the Murray river is, so we won’t go into that again. After Canberra, we went back to the river separating NSW and Victoria, and had another couple of extremely relaxing days! Staying next to Australia’s longest river was excellent as usual, up until Claudia saw the water…
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For some reason, we always get terrible weather when we visit a big city… Canberra was no exception. Luckily, to see the most interesting sights in this “artificial capital”, you don’t need an umbrella. Canberra was engineered as the nation’s capital, because Sydney and Melbourne couldn’t settle their rivalry to become Australia’s most important city….
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