Hi mates,
Because writing in Dutch, French and German is too much time-consuming and three times as expensive as just writing 1 email, I will from now on write in Australian!:) Moreover, I have to keep my Aussie friends informed about my travels as well! That would be a fourth language... No way...
I am in Adelaide for the moment and it was "3 times the first time"... I left for Adelaide on Wednesday with the train. About 800 km between Sydney and Adelaide in 24 hours... It was announced that this train, the Indian Pacific, is not a high speed train, which let you admire the landscapes even more... We drove through the beautiful Blue Mountains, before it became dark. Then it was a little boring, but luckily the train personnel showed us a movie: National Treasure. They should have showed an Australian movie, but anyway it was good because after 6 hours train, I was already a little fed up with it...!:) When we crossed the border between New South Wales and South Australia, we had to change our watches: It was the first time in my life that I had to change my watch with an half an hour! Luckily the train was not full so I could take 2 seats in order to sleep. OK, it is not waaaauh, but it is an "adventure travel". Certainly because there was some lady from El Salvador who was snorring... The funny thing is that I once saw in a movie of Louis de Fumes, La Grande Vadrouille, that you have to wispel... I did that once before and it really helps, so after 10 minutes, the snorring lady turned into a peaceful sleeping madame!:)
When the darkness of the night disappeared the following day, the landscape was 'typical Australian', as we, Europeans think of Australia...: red soil, low vegetation, I could see kangourous and emu's... I decided to take a shower first. It was the first time that I took a shower on the train...:) Around 6.30 am the train stopped in Broken Hill. We had 1.5 hour to get off the train and walk into this little mining town. Time seems to have stopped for 100 years over there...
The last hours in the train were terrible... But I was just happy to be 'almost' in Adelaide. The Indian Pacific goes on to Perth in another 2 additional days. I saw a lot of people that went on to Perth and I felt really sorry for them, but VERY happy for me! At 3pm we arrived in Adelaide.
I was the first time in my life to be in a village of 1 million inhabitants!!!:) Even the railway station seemed to be in the outback!!!
Because writing in Dutch, French and German is too much time-consuming and three times as expensive as just writing 1 email, I will from now on write in Australian!:) Moreover, I have to keep my Aussie friends informed about my travels as well! That would be a fourth language... No way...
I am in Adelaide for the moment and it was "3 times the first time"... I left for Adelaide on Wednesday with the train. About 800 km between Sydney and Adelaide in 24 hours... It was announced that this train, the Indian Pacific, is not a high speed train, which let you admire the landscapes even more... We drove through the beautiful Blue Mountains, before it became dark. Then it was a little boring, but luckily the train personnel showed us a movie: National Treasure. They should have showed an Australian movie, but anyway it was good because after 6 hours train, I was already a little fed up with it...!:) When we crossed the border between New South Wales and South Australia, we had to change our watches: It was the first time in my life that I had to change my watch with an half an hour! Luckily the train was not full so I could take 2 seats in order to sleep. OK, it is not waaaauh, but it is an "adventure travel". Certainly because there was some lady from El Salvador who was snorring... The funny thing is that I once saw in a movie of Louis de Fumes, La Grande Vadrouille, that you have to wispel... I did that once before and it really helps, so after 10 minutes, the snorring lady turned into a peaceful sleeping madame!:)
When the darkness of the night disappeared the following day, the landscape was 'typical Australian', as we, Europeans think of Australia...: red soil, low vegetation, I could see kangourous and emu's... I decided to take a shower first. It was the first time that I took a shower on the train...:) Around 6.30 am the train stopped in Broken Hill. We had 1.5 hour to get off the train and walk into this little mining town. Time seems to have stopped for 100 years over there...
The last hours in the train were terrible... But I was just happy to be 'almost' in Adelaide. The Indian Pacific goes on to Perth in another 2 additional days. I saw a lot of people that went on to Perth and I felt really sorry for them, but VERY happy for me! At 3pm we arrived in Adelaide.
I was the first time in my life to be in a village of 1 million inhabitants!!!:) Even the railway station seemed to be in the outback!!!
I am staying in the international youth hostel. There are just 2 kinds of people: Asians and Germans! There was some 'strange' girlie from Thailand who started to talk to me when I cooked my dinner. Luckily, there were 2 German speaking girls as well, so I started to chat with them. They come from Switzerland, Luzern (Yes, Irina, die Schweiz folgt mir ueberall!!!) and have that great Swiss German accent (I wanna have that accent as well!!!), later on a German from Krefeld joined us and so the Europeans were united for the rest of the evening!:) We played pingpong and went for a beer. Cool, because they all stay the same period in the hostel and we already said to have dinner tonight together as well!
Only my German friends will understand this:The German's name is Bernd, so I said to him 'Bernd, das Brot'. He was really surprised that I knew that... But not so happy that that joke about his name is now even known by a Belgian!!!:))) I told him how you have to pronounce my name in Flemish and that, at the beginning of my 2-year stay in Germany, I did not know that my name had a bloody meaning in German!!!:)
Today, I visited the town. I informed myself as well for tomorrow: because I have already a planned tour in Alice Springs and think that I will do the same in Darwin (kakadu National Park), I did not want to spend too much money on a tour through the Barossa Valley... I decided to take the buss tomorrow to the Barossa Valley and hire a bike over there... Sounds really cool! Now I am going back to the hostel in order to meet my new German and Swiss friends again...
C U and keep you informed!
Greetings from Adelaide...
Ruben
Only my German friends will understand this:The German's name is Bernd, so I said to him 'Bernd, das Brot'. He was really surprised that I knew that... But not so happy that that joke about his name is now even known by a Belgian!!!:))) I told him how you have to pronounce my name in Flemish and that, at the beginning of my 2-year stay in Germany, I did not know that my name had a bloody meaning in German!!!:)
Today, I visited the town. I informed myself as well for tomorrow: because I have already a planned tour in Alice Springs and think that I will do the same in Darwin (kakadu National Park), I did not want to spend too much money on a tour through the Barossa Valley... I decided to take the buss tomorrow to the Barossa Valley and hire a bike over there... Sounds really cool! Now I am going back to the hostel in order to meet my new German and Swiss friends again...
C U and keep you informed!
Greetings from Adelaide...
Ruben
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