2017-02-28
by Amiram
While riding one of the most beautiful cycle routes ever in Tasmania we had to stop twice for snakes. One of which we captured on video :-O
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2017-02-26
by Ragna
Do you know the feeling that you just want to “get out of here” (as 3 year old Tayanika puts it in her dry humour)? “Why am I doing this to myself/ us/the kids?” Cycling up a steep hill on a sticky dirtroad, somewhere in Tasmania, these words repeat in my head again and again. […]
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2017-02-26
by Amiram
While riding in incredibly beautiful Tasmania we realised that we had crossed the 5000km mark. We are going to celebtrate this today with a rest and play day…and of course lots and lots of yummy and naugthy foods. Tassy, as the locals call it offers some of the finest cycle touring in the world because […]
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2017-02-22
by Amiram
Our Warmshowers host Bronnie showed me and Amaya the great Ecocentre in Melbourne. Among other things Bronnie’s work there includes lectures on sustainable living and environmental topics. The Ecocentre has been active in a diverse range of environmemtal topics since more than 20 years. The Melbourne based NGO started with conservation issues in Melbourne’s coastal areas. Melbourne’s Port Philip […]
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2017-02-11
by Ragna
We actually celebrated Tayanika’ s 3rd birthday two times, one time in Melbourne and one time in Tasmania. We had a yummy pre-birthday cake and songs with friends that had invited us to their house in “Altona” (sic!). A suburb southwest of Melbourne, not to confuse with that of Hamburg, despite it also being near […]
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2017-02-04
by Amiram
The Ferry Spirit if Tasmania brought us from Melbourne to Devonport in Tasmania and we are now very excited to explore this remote end of the world. We started cycling in the far western part Tasmania and were treated a very quiet road. And this was not a side road but the A2 highway. This […]
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2017-02-02
by Ragna
Since our last Wildlife Spotting Blog, it got even better, as we had even Wildlife camping. To the kids delight, we had a lot more wallaby and kangaroo contact, than expected. On one campsite at Potato Point, in the middle of the Eurobodalla National Park, we were surrounded by Wallabies and Kangaroos. They were literally […]
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2017-02-01
by Amiram
After arriving in cosmopolitan Melbourne a friend of ours told us about Martin “the German Pirate“. He is regularly fishing and cleaning up plastic on one of the beautiful beaches here in Melbourne (St. Kilda Beach). He is also known as the rat whisperer and you can see him feeding his friend Hugo a rare Australian water […]
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