Hi everybody,
First of all, the response to my last entry was sensational. It would be even more spectacular if we could do the same time, without requiring someone to uncover.
Katoomba! No spell, but a village in the Blue Mountains, where spent the last few days. It is idyllically situated in a National Park and is in all sects and religious communities popular place to settle around him. The reason I quickly found out during my five-day stay: peace, nature and more rest.
This is my trip to the Blue Mountains in fact also been described. In the morning I went hiking (2 days like this with an otherwise boring for oil Canadians - about this later). You have to imagine it this way: the Blue Mountains are not mountains, but a huge valley with breathtaking lookouts of waterfalls, cliffs and the wide expanses of eucalyptus forests. If John did not went along, accompanied me lizards and birds (in fact all colors. The Reds are shy, the blacks are smart and scary to attack you, once you take a break and stuff for food in your backpack usually then takes the. also gain a few seconds and that was it with the Snack -. let's get out here)
Back gabs of my more long tours sandwiches, afternoon I went - if I'm still so far contributed the legs - to the Leisure Center. The there are in each and every village, usually consist of a 50m outdoor pool, 25m indoor pool, fitness center, gymnasium, etc. Admission is really cheap, about 5 €, in the afternoon there cavort around hundreds of children, most come straight from school in her uniform.
evening was always boiled. The rest of the time I just lounged around in the lounge of my hostel, which was in the last 5 years, four times voted Best Australian backpacker. Not wrong, the atmosphere was so comfortable there that I did not leave the building in one evening.
But back to John, my traveling companions. John is 22, even though I liked him 10 years older. He lives near Vancouver, in the midst of nature, where he bought a house with lots of wood. The last two and a half years he has been drilling for oil, for the equivalent of 6,000 euros a month. The stories of the rig were exciting and horrible at the same time. His skull is after a work accident largely of iron, most workers there on cocaine, because they do not know what to do with all that money in the rare free time. After a year in Australia by the way John would fish for the most sought after crab species in the world in the waters off Alaska. He is looking for a new thrill, supposedly the most dangerous job to be the world because so many boats capsize. Crazy ...
On Sunday I returned to Sydney where I'm going to stay for a week. Monday was the day the Australian dollar. $ 200 cost me to extend my visa (I did not even have the heart, but have still have a month), 252 dollars a bus ticket to Cairns (that's the way, 3000km), the property is terribly expensive and then I also raised the still on sale at sports shoes at. I could not help it. It was incredible in the evening to go jogging shoes in muted through the botanical garden. Before I visited, even in sandals, the Gallery of New South Wales.
Back jogging. Not only jogging in Australia that people twice as fast as in Austria. There is currently very fashionable to stay during the lunch break a physical drill. It looks like this: 50 men, aged between 25 and 55, all topless zwängeln under the blazing sun by Japanese tourists flock before the opera. They do there on the stairs push-ups, which sets a Vorturner the rhythm. The Japs hold it all reversed. In between, they attract boxing gloves and beat one another, they sprint up and down the stairs, do sit-ups and so on until they spread after 45 minutes in all directions and disappear into their offices. Lunch break with a difference. Similar offers are also on beaches, at 6 clock in the morning, when the whole is still run a bit militaristic.
I go to something quieter. I spent the day on Manly Beach and was more than thrilled. The area is expanded there mad, you think not even think of being in a big city. I played football all afternoon with a Dutchman, then 2 on 2 against two Americans. Wonderfully funny ...
for European ears, the loudspeaker announcements there. It is given by example, when the wind or the currents are stronger. Or, if a jellyfish has been spotted in the water today, for 30 minutes caused severe pain, do nothing against you can.
with jellyfish I've even been to Ibiza so made my experiences. The Aussies recommend contact with this genre, "cold water". Lehi and I know that helps in these cases, only men urine, locally, right on the beach, in front of everyone.
Tomorrow is a trip to the famous Bondi Beach to Coogee in the program. As of Thursday I went in Olympic Park at the Davis Cup. In the Austrian team is with the way Marco Mirnegg. What those were for times when, on Molla 5-square "and against this Wappler I lose a set," roared. The
Wappler I was, the sentence I have not won before his head, unfortunately, does not.
See you, Martin
PS I'm just 1:2, will tomorrow make a matching photo.
Finally, a few other photos:
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