Advent Calendar: 13th December

The good thing about owning a car and being on a roadtrip is that you do not only have gorgeous views on the countryside but that you can stop whenever you want (ok, maybe not on the main highway, but on every other road we can just stop left by) to enjoy the sun and take stunning pictures like this.

Sundown is here around 9 PM by the way... :-p

Advent Calendar: 12th December

You think you know what the most dangerous animal in Melbourne is?

Well, you probably didn’t think about rhinos on skateboards ;)

This is how the public transport system organisation in Melbourne tries to make you aware of how heavy and dangerous a tram that hits you is.

Advent Calendar: 11.5th December

I’m really late for the 11th of December, I know…again: no reception.

This is Mayflowerbeach on the east coast of Tassy. Was the perfect place for a late breakfast! 

Advent Calendar: 10th December

In the lab or pub

whether soap or beer

sharing foam is better there.

Wonderful rhyme, isn’t it? :-p

This picture - taken on the evening of Laurence’ concert (which I wrote about here) - is dedicated to all the beers drunken in the Refugium by people who should have been in a lesson at that time.

Advent Calendar: 9th December

One of the girls I’m travelling with at the moment, Maria, was picked up by a guy who offered us all to sleep at his place and have a hot shower. So after being at Freyscenet National Park we drove to his place, arriving late in the night and had a very relaxed evening,listening to italian music, drinking wine, eating cheese and prosciutto and bred with butter. After 20km of hiking this was an amazing meal.

The knife above was the only one he had in his kitchen, was 30 to 40cm long, felt like a machete and was being used in a very universal way that night, from cutting cheese to buttering bread. 

Advent Calendar: 8.5th December

With some delay here comes the 8th of December (no reception in the bushes on the beach):

There are a lot of Wallabys in Tasmania. Either alive or dead on the street, you can see them everywhere. Especially in the night they love it to jump in front of your car, attracted by the lights of the car (their eyes are really, really bad). I like to call those Suicide-Wallabys.

All in all it’s worth to have a drive during the night in Tassy, you will see most of the wild animals living here during that time (I think, I’ve even had a short glimpse on a Tasmanian Devil!)…but for sure you shouldn’t drive too fast then if you don’t want to support the suicidal character of the wallabies!

While hiking in the Freyscinet National Park the other day we saw a few wallabies during daytime but none of them got as close as this one at the parking space where we parked our car.

We even pet it, so fluffy!

Advent Calendar: 7th December

This is an oyster. Fresh from the sea at a place called Triubanna on the east coast of Tassy.

I stayed the last two days at this place, was kayaking here and had a really good time. Corinne, our host, lives next to a bay where we could collect fresh wild oysters. And in her garden we cooked them (a lot of them, I think none of her couchsurfers gonna eat seafood in the next weeks) on a fire heated oven and prepared them in vietnamise way (because a girl from Vietnam stays here too right now) with oil and leech.

I was surprised that the raw ones actually taste good (even though nothing for people who don’t like seafood for sure) but cooked in this way it’s much better!

Bon apetite!