About when airplanes become sleighs...

When I came to Sydney the pilot announced the safe arrival with the words "The sleigh has landed" as it was the 25th of December. Everyone who was working at the airport had a Santa or elf hat. Combined with the tasmanian friendliness it reminded me of this amazing christmas campaign of Westjet: When dreams come true.

Back in Melbourne, where I took this picture - which is the closest thing to a sleigh I have picture of - I just thought that I'm really glad about the differences between Vienna and Melbourne...can't imagine such a glowing coach in Vienna!

Advent Calendar: 24th December

With my last Advent Calendar post I send you a warm fire that should keep you warm and safe on Christmas Eve. I hope you all enjoy christmas with your family!

I took this picture when we camped at the - what a coincidence - Bay of Fire.

I’m now in the plane to Sydney after spending Christmas Eve with my friends from Tassy eating self-made vietnamese spring rolls, chinese rice dish, austrian christmas biscuits and self picked raspberries (which is a really hard job, when I tried it I ate more than I put into the bags - I don't have a clue how someone could make money out of that). 

I want to thank all of you guys who made each day of the advent time so special for me! All the messages I got from Europe brought me the christmas feeling that is absent here! Thank you so much! :D

When I made up the Christmas Kangorooh in my last post I didn’t know what you could find when you google it, but my mom found this…let’s say different Christmas story which I just have to share with all of you: Christmas in Australia

Even though the advent is over now I’ll go on posting more short stories every few days rather than only big posts every now and than, so stay tuned and go on checking my blog regularly (it’s really a joy to know that you read that rather than writing only for myself…;)

Merry Christmas! Bon apetite =)

Advent Calendar: 23rd December

Only one more time to sleep 'til Santa/Christkind/Polarbear/Christmas-kangorooh or whoever else you believe in comes to you. ;)

This clock doesn't show you the time until christmas eve but was used as a traffic signal in the early 20th century in Fitzroy, a part of Melbourne, that indicates how much time of each signal phase was left.

To be seen only in the Melbourne Musem nowadays - I really don't get it why they aren't in use anymore...

Advent Calendar: 1st December

Since having a reliable internet connection on a road trip is a pretty hard thing and I wanna share far too many pictures with you, I'll thought I may upload at least one picture a day during the Adventtime  .

Enjoy the Christmas time! It's horrible here, the sun is shining, but I've seen a bus driver with a Santa Claus-hat and a little Christmastree in his bus...that was so wrong!

And during the night I've seen some glowing houses...I first thought there might be a disco...but on the second thought I remembered the date and believe that it's probably christmas decoration (really bad one if you ask me).

The picture you see above is taken in Hobart on a sunny day. I've been out for a run on the same day and have seen parrots again!