Down Under
Both Lieselot & i have been dreaming of a trip to Australia for years now and this year we decided to make this dream come true. The plan has been conceived and some it has been booked already. Some details have to be sorted and a considerable amount of money has to change hands and then the longing can start.
We planned the trip together with the very knowledgable and friendly staff of Aussie Tours in Staden. We will take a plane in Zaventem and land in Sydney (with a stopover in London & Singapore) about 24 hours later. After visiting Sydney for 2 days we will fly to Alice Springs. There we will pick up our 4x4 rental car and head off for a 10 day desert road trip. To test our offroad skills, we will start the trip with a visit to Glen Helen, Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock (this is the part i am especially looking forward to!!). Leaving the red centre, we will then head north on the famous Stuart Highway towards Kakadu National Park and Litchfield National Park, ending up in tropical Darwin.
From Darwin we'll take our second and last domestic flight to Brisbane where we will pick up our second rental car for our 11 day drive along the east coast to Cairns. Along the way we will take a boat from Hervey Bay to Fraser Island (with some whale watching along the way hopefully) and stay on the Island for one night. As a grand finale we will spend our last full day on the continent by going snorkling to the Great Barrier Reef. Reluctantly we will board the plane home in Cairns (stopping in Darwin, Singapore and London), to land in Zaventem the next day. And then it's back to work...
We planned the trip together with the very knowledgable and friendly staff of Aussie Tours in Staden. We will take a plane in Zaventem and land in Sydney (with a stopover in London & Singapore) about 24 hours later. After visiting Sydney for 2 days we will fly to Alice Springs. There we will pick up our 4x4 rental car and head off for a 10 day desert road trip. To test our offroad skills, we will start the trip with a visit to Glen Helen, Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock (this is the part i am especially looking forward to!!). Leaving the red centre, we will then head north on the famous Stuart Highway towards Kakadu National Park and Litchfield National Park, ending up in tropical Darwin.
From Darwin we'll take our second and last domestic flight to Brisbane where we will pick up our second rental car for our 11 day drive along the east coast to Cairns. Along the way we will take a boat from Hervey Bay to Fraser Island (with some whale watching along the way hopefully) and stay on the Island for one night. As a grand finale we will spend our last full day on the continent by going snorkling to the Great Barrier Reef. Reluctantly we will board the plane home in Cairns (stopping in Darwin, Singapore and London), to land in Zaventem the next day. And then it's back to work...
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For anyone who is interested, this site is written in php and uses a templating engine called QuickSkin which i realy like. It's easy to use and allows you to write clean code using the model-view-controller (MVC) principle. I use the same engine for the Rock Bujumbura site and for that site it made the internationalisation quite a bit less messy.
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Welcome to my brand new blog. I'm realy not a passionate blogger since i rather like to do things in stead of writing about them. So this will be an attempt to write down some intresting events i attend, perhaps some technology news & any other thoughts i want to share with the world but it certainly won't be a diary of everything i do. For anyone who is wondering where the title of this blogpost comes from: it is stolen from this site, which is one of the most absurd and funny blogs i have ever seen.
The last few days have been quite strange. Lieselot & i got back from our trip to the States two weeks ago and we have been slowly addapting to our normal life again. It's a realy strange feeling to come home after almost a moth of travelling without any care in the world. The jetlag didn't help either. Trying to get up on time for work is pretty hard if you never feel tired at night. Picking up on other side projects (like Rock Bujumbura) is also a bit slower then normal but we'll get there. Anyway, the trip was fantastic & we realy didn't want to come home yet. You can find out more about our itinerary in the States here or check out some of our photo's on Netlog. The rest of the photos will follow as soon as possible.
The last few days have been quite strange. Lieselot & i got back from our trip to the States two weeks ago and we have been slowly addapting to our normal life again. It's a realy strange feeling to come home after almost a moth of travelling without any care in the world. The jetlag didn't help either. Trying to get up on time for work is pretty hard if you never feel tired at night. Picking up on other side projects (like Rock Bujumbura) is also a bit slower then normal but we'll get there. Anyway, the trip was fantastic & we realy didn't want to come home yet. You can find out more about our itinerary in the States here or check out some of our photo's on Netlog. The rest of the photos will follow as soon as possible.