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Happy Australia Day!

Happy Australia Day!

By on Jan 31, 2015

Judith Scharnowski

Our last stop in Australia was Sydney. It is the biggest city of this continent (I actually call it planet, because of its enormous size and the throughout relaxed and laid back mentality of the inhabitants… not that I would call them aliens, in the contrary: I think that humanity in general would do good to adapt a bit more of the Aussie chill mood). One thing we...

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A good place to die

A good place to die

By on Jan 28, 2015

Markus

Not that we feel even remotely close to the end of our lives, but that’s apparently what the Sunshine Coast actually is: “That’s where old people come to die”, so we were told. Well – a pretty smart choice, there’s no denying that. We took a train from Cabarita Beach to Brisbane, where we were picked up by whom we officially...

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A new year and old friends

A new year and old friends

By on Jan 21, 2015

Judith Scharnowski

We were looking forward to our time in Melbourne ever since we started our trip. To spend Christmas with the Boothby family was actually one of the very little fixed-points we had planned. Steve and Markus met about 15 years back in Switzerland, when Steve did an exchange year at school and their friendship lasted over all these years. Steve and his family live in...

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The mother of all roads

The mother of all roads

By on Jan 11, 2015

Markus

The Great Ocean Road – I reckon most people have heard of this place, although I believe few actually know the details. Given the fact that we both loves motorcycles, and our host was more than happy to find an excuse to hire a massive bike, we gave it a go. Our rental period was exactly 24 hours, which we split into two parts. On Saturday, we picked up our...

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Three nights in Bangkok

Three nights in Bangkok

By on Jan 7, 2015

Markus

Bangkok – a city of many tales. To be honest, we didn’t really see that many, since we only had 3 days there, in between Pai and our already booked flight down to Melbourne. We soon figured that Bangkok is way too big to even remotely see in 3 days. With just over 8 million people living there, Bangkok packs the entire population of Switzerland into an area...

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