A big thank you again to the generous donours for the tree planting activities in Fukushima, Japan!!! Here some updates and pictures. Some of you might remember our volunteering activities last year July with Tochigi Conservation Corps (TCC) and its sister organisation Fukushima Conservation Corps (FCC). Our exciting forest conservation activities included invasive bamboo species cutting and […]
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Amiram’s first day back at work was fast approaching and we were due to be in Brizzie (nickname for Queensland’s capital Brisbane) in the middle of May. While still cycling, surfing and enjoying our free lifestyle around Byron Bay, I had managed to find a cosy little kindergarten. Rachel’s place, as it is called, had just […]
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After having cycled south from Brisbane, via the beautiful North Stradbroke Island Nationalpark, and surviving Easter in Party (Surfer’s) Paradise and Glitzy Goldcoast, we reached Buzzing Byron Bay. I had fond memories of my first visit there 15 years ago when I was travelling with my sister. I took my first surf lesson and enjoyed a challenging […]
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We had not met any other cycling family, until the end of the 11th month of our Zen Tour, when we met 3 families within 3 days, near or on Maria Island, north of Hobart in the South-Eastern part of Tasmania. Our first encounter with a cycling family was when we got onto the ferry to car […]
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8.00 pm While Amiram is reading the last (of the 4) bedtime stories for the kids in the tent, I finish off washing the dishes, locking the bikes and covering the chariot (bicycle trailer) with the raincover for the night. Then I already start thinking about those possums, that have haunted us the last couple of […]
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We were “picked up” by a father with his 2 year old son at a playground on a hot day in Tathra, New South Wales, while cycling from Sydney to Melbourne sometimes later in January 2017. Father and son had observed us searching for a suitable campsite and thought “we can do better then a site […]
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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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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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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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You might believe it or not, but the Cliché that Downunder is full of wildlife is actually true. And this even on the populated East Coast south of Sydney. Thanks to the successful Aussie travel marketing and a dozen Australian animal children books, that we borrowed from our friends in Bali, we were well prepared. On our […]
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