Where on earth..?

Melbourne

Time to write again! We wanted to see the east coast, and now we have, but when moving places frequently, it doesn't leave enough energy to also write and email.

Raine already told you something about our travels on the east coast. Im glad we saw all those places, but Byron Bay was no question my favourite of the bunch. The other places were more "smalltown Australia", nothing wrong with that, but maybe not so much my scene. Noosa was nice, with beatifully planned city infrastructure for the rich and the famous and Bundaberg & Mackey showed us what Australia is like when neither in a big city nor in the coutryside. Airlie beach from where the tours to the Whitsundays depart, is a very beautiful small town with more tourists than locals.

Our sailing trip was a great success and the occational rain didn't disturb us. We had some superb Italian food on the boat and we had a lot of fun snorkling among the colorful coral and fish. There was only 9 people on the boat so we got to know every one, I even got an invitation to stay with a Canadian couple in Vancouver when there. As a first time sailing experience it was great to have both still waters and heavy wind (although my stomach didn't like the heavy wind part...) Cos of deadly jellyfish (!) we had to wear specially made stinger suits when snorkelling, Raine looked just like superman in his, shame we dont have a picture of that =) EDIT We DO have pictures of that, in the Whitsundays picture folder!

From Airlie beach we took a bus to Mackay, spent one night in Mackay, took a plane to Brisbane, spent 9 hours in Brisbane (actually enough to see it), took a flight to Melbourne and here we are. Every one already know it, but this really is my favourite city on earth. So Im gonna live here for a month and do whatever I feel like, I just enjoy myself so much! Im now staying in a city centre (CBD) hostel with Raine, but when he leaves for his farm, Im moving to an inner city suburb called Richmond from where I have lively cafe'/bar Brunswick street in the east, Italian food Lygon Street in the west, Carlton gardens in the middle and CBD a 20 min walk south =) Can't complain about that!

That's about it for now, Im off to my second dance class here. (Need that after the chocolate truffle+chocolate souce breakfast yestarday and the buckwheat pancake/bacon and egg breakfast today...) As Im learning to save my pennies, this was written on a free library computer =) My pictures will come later as the free computer couldn't download them... =)
-Carina

posted by Carina @ 8:23 AM