let's see if i can do this...

even if blogger is in japanese today!

blogging from my hostel in central sydney @ the moment. left byron bay last monday night, after a 13 hour bus trip i arrived back in sydney, to directly take another bus out of the city again...to wollongong! normally you take a train by the way, but because it's schoolholidays they decided to work on the traintracks.
in holland this would cause TROUBLE for those wanting to get somewhere after all, in australia they hire a bunch of pensioners as volonteers who put signs everywhere around the station and make sure nobody misses out on knowing where the busses to wollongong and thirroul are leaving from...and those busses are also really there, and leaving as regularly as the trains would, you can see i was impressed!

anyway, in wollongong i stayed @ the fabulous hostel 'the gedges' again until friday. even though emma & hubby brett had some sleepless nights because 2 out of 3 kids were sick i never slept better, finally a room for myself after over a month in cramed, smelly & noisy rooms on the east coast.
my last night we were invited over for dinner at brett parents, which was really nice. they made me try yelly...wasn't as bad a i thought haha!
i'd showed off some of my dutch cuisine cooking the night before by the way, made pancakes with bacon & maple syrup ;) the kids loved it!
and to make my OZ-experience complete i had toast with vegemite on my last morning...which was actually ok too! :O

so friday i said goodbye to emma, :( then took the bus back into sydney and moved into this hostel on kent street for a couple of nights, kate's coming back from her holiday tomorrow night so i will spend my last couple of days in OZ over @ her place again.
this weekend i've most of all been relaxing while wandering around town, found out i still know my way around the city which is good. didn't do much special apart from sight-seeing & window-shopping. up until today the weather was pretty good, but today it was just pouring with rain, if it's like that again tomorrow it'll be a museum day, if not i'm thinking of finally talking a walk over the harbour bridge.



i'm not sure if i'll be blogging again before i head off to hong kong this friday, the 13th haha, hopefully i'll be able to blog from there next weekend though! will be landing back in little NL on tuesday morning 6:45 (am that is!)....to leave again 3 days later! only to norway this time thought...hard life as a travelguide eh? ;)