Hello Everybody.


I realise most of you have not read this blog for a while. Why should you, it's been kinda silent for another 6 or 8 months, haven't it.


Well, suddenly it became useful again for me. I find myself in a place far away and I need to tell everybody about it. I bet this blog will was destined to just get updates every half year or so. I'll keep you posted when there'w new stuff.

But the news is, as quite a few might have heard, that I'm in Australia. I'm visiting my girlfriend Kalina that I haven't held since august when we last saw each other, and I'm holding on to her until I have to go home in february. It's all very sweet and I'm so happy but also a bit sad that I can not stay here forever. On the upside I get to see her now and in May she'll probably drop by Europe again.

In the meantime I just wanted to show y'all how beautifull and wonderful Australia is in january. Everybody I know in the northern hemisphere ought to migrate here every winter. This place SO beat rainy grey skies and 3 degrees winter weather.

I'm staying here at my girlfriend's parent's (everybody lives with their parents here, nobody can afford to study and pay the rent for their own place). They live pretty close to the beach so we've gone there quite a lot. I tried surfing, but for tall skinny guys it's not as easy as I hoped. I'll keep trying so I might come home a little better.

I also went on a camping trip with Kalina and some friends from Delft to the Blue Mountains, where we saw a few of the local attractive views and found a camp site in the bottom of Megalong Valley (it is pretty long ;P). In the picture it's Kalina on the right, then Kathi from Austria and kristian from Sydney. We all hung out in Delft a year ago.

Apart from that we've been visiting friends and walking around town to get a feeling of the place. I might go here for a bit longer next time, so it's important to find out if I like it :)

Yesterday I got back from a five day holiday with Kalina at Airlie Beach in Queensland. It's on the mainland just in front of the Whitsunday Islands, a bunch of paradise islands inside the great barrier reef. We went on a couple of trips to the islands and swam and snorkeled a lot. I even got my first diving experience and met a nice Maorian Wrasse (I think) called Wally.

The whole experience was fantastic, but you got a bit wobbly being on a boat for so long.

The next ten days or so I shall enjoy life on land, chill with kalina on the beach and possibly go out for a few more beers. If more interesting stuff happens I'll keep you posted. In the meantime you can see all of my photos from the trip here. The trip started out in London the 31st of december where I met up with my good friend Siniz (also from Delft), before meeting Kathi in Heathrow to fly to sydney.

Take care out there, and to all of you that I didn't get to wish a Happy New Year: I hope to see you in the new one.

Hugs, Jakob