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21 mei 2009 | Door: tom

the balance

on the last full day in alice springs and the day before we're off back to hong kong, it's time to make up the balance: * 20,250 kilometers * 150 days and nights * 9 rainy days * 80 bottles of wine * 570 bottles of babymilk * 930 nappies ...

Alice Springs - Australië

19 mei 2009 | Door: tom

bedtime rituals

below is a story of january 2009. tom never got to complete it until now, may 2009. many of these rituals have changed by may and if they're worth mentioning, they're added. it's funny to see how fast things change and how some things never come ...

Alice Springs - Australië

15 mei 2009 | Door: tom

outback rulezzz

laurian and tom have decided that the road from cairns westward to normanton by the name of gulf development road, has been the greatest. it's the road to the gulf of carpentaria, on the map this is that big bite out of the top of australia. the ...

Alice Springs - Australië

8 mei 2009 | Door: tom

het ongebaande pad / the road less travelled

the disadvantage of the east coast of australia, and to a certain extent of all the travels before, has been that everyone goes there. why? because there's a lot to see. laurian kindly had planned to hand in the camper van in alice springs so that ...

Normanton - Australië

3 mei 2009 | Door: tom

de grote vakantie / the big vacation

if you're for five months on vacation, when do you really feel like you're on vacation? in month five. the resort at daydream island was the start of a period where nothing anymore was on the program. before, the trip existed of planned subtrips in ...

Port Douglas - Australië

26 april 2009 | Door: tom

daydream believer

"my daughter says you have the cutest baby in the world, and you know what? she's right". the lady in the deckchair at daydream island resort & spa is making baby allards father all proud. daydream island is only 15 minutes by boat from the ...

Bowen - Australië

18 april 2009 | Door: tom

camping out without earplugs

australia doesn't have as many free campgrounds as new zealand does. that is of course because there's more urbanized area's. in new zealand a sign of being a "top ten" quality campground (of which there were not ten but fifty) was enough to try and ...

Airlie Beach - Australië

12 april 2009 | Door: tom

close encounters

so where did we leave it off? mette singing about the kookaburra in the old gum tree. she had seen only one kookaburra so far and that one was in captivity in the sydney zoo - for whom she and arjen berendsen's children (dutch living in l.a.!) ...

Hervey Bay - Australië

6 april 2009 | Door: tom

Mette's talking

it's funny how you can organize your journey around the quotes of a 2.5 years old. she's grown very quick. before she hardly said hello to her grandparents on the speaker phone, today she started singing. what did she sing? kookaburra sits in the ...

Sydney - Australië

1 april 2009 | Door: tom

meisje met de beer

since mette turned 1.5 and tom had time in the morning, they went together to the woodlands school playgroup on caine road on tuesdays and thursday. already on the escalator mette would always start crying out "meisje met de beer! meisje met de ...

Sydney - Australië

28 maart 2009 | Door: tom

sign fetish

in franz josef, new zealand there was a book by lonely planet with funny signs that people took pictures of. and there was even a sequel. in china and egypt there are the funniest signs because they have been written by non english speakers (for ...

Sydney - Australië

24 maart 2009 | Door: tom

van hassles and kangaroos

the family has arrived in pambula. on the coast 500km south of sydney. on the way there, the van ran out of gas. since that happened to us last year in perth, that's not a problem because we now have a jerrycan on board and we also know how to not ...

Sydney - Australië

20 maart 2009 | Door: tom

bon

in elementary school tom's friend diederik ter haar had an older brother, mark, who was a fan of australian hard rock group ac/dc and therefore tom and diederik were too. at age ten, tom had heard on the radio that ac/dc was playing on july 13th, ...

Sydney - Australië

18 maart 2009 | Door: tom

strikes

california has the highest (absolute and, i think, relative) number of prisoners per state in the usa. one of the reasons is the "three strikes you're out" rule. analogous to the game of baseball where you lose your turn when you swung the bat and ...

Sydney - Australië

10 maart 2009 | Door: tom

did you know?

* did you know that on an overnight sailing from port melbourne to tasmania of 400km there's mobile phone coverage all the way through? it must be the ship talking to a satellite or so, but that's good, otherwise this message, written in the bar ...

Sydney - Australië

3 maart 2009 | Door: tom

the big four-oh

where were you on july 5th, 1983? no idea? i remember where i was, because there's a picture of my mom and 40 of her female friends for her 40th birthday on the lawn by my parents house and my dad, sister, brother and me quite prominently in front ...

Apollo Bay - Australië

28 februari 2009 | Door: tom

oude wijn en nieuwe dieren/old wine and new animal

"au-stalia!" is what mette says when you just say "au...". she still doesn't pronounce the r. when they were still in new zealand, tom remembered that his father had given him the contact details of a couple they met on the boat from turkey to ...

Sydney - Australië

23 februari 2009 | Door: tom

maori

tom's imc-colleague is travelling through new zealand at the same time. "which imc colleague?", one might ask. was it tibor bejczy and carrie wang, judith eijkelkamp or calmer roos? the correct answer is: all four of them separately. the closest one ...

Auckland - Nieuw Zeeland

17 februari 2009 | Door: tom

and the second best things in life...

...are almost for free it is almost official. with only one week to go, the most beautiful spot for camping so far is elected to be maitai bay on karikari peninsula, one hour north of kerikeri(!) and four hours north of auckland. you can drive your ...

Wellington - Nieuw Zeeland

11 februari 2009 | Door: tom and laurian

mette's quote of the day and germans

here's some quotes that mette accounted for recently: * speen van allardje! die is voor zijn snavel/allard's pacifier. that's for his beak * (out of the sudden) barack obama is heel lief. en ook heel intelligent/barack obama is very kind. and also ...

Wellington - Nieuw Zeeland

The big trip to New Zealand and Australia

Starting 28 December, Mette and Allard will be traveling with their parents to New Zealand and Australia for 5 months. We are looking forward to spending a lot of time together and enjoying being outside and visiting two amazing countries.

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21 Mei 2009

the balance

19 Mei 2009

bedtime rituals

15 Mei 2009

outback rulezzz

08 Mei 2009

het ongebaande pad / the road less travelled

03 Mei 2009

de grote vakantie / the big vacation

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28 December 2008 - 23 Mei 2009

The big trip to New Zealand and Australia

the balance

bedtime rituals

outback rulezzz

het ongebaande pad / the road less travelled

de grote vakantie / the big vacation

daydream believer

camping out without earplugs

close encounters

Mette's talking

meisje met de beer

sign fetish

van hassles and kangaroos

bon

strikes

did you know?

the big four-oh

oude wijn en nieuwe dieren/old wine and new animal

maori

and the second best things in life...

mette's quote of the day and germans

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