Welcome to the last edition of our blog written in beautiful Australia!
We are just spending our last hours in brisbane before we leave to Bangkok tomorrow early in the morning, and it is very exciting! After long back and forth we decided to take the bikes and the climbing equipment over, which means there is no space for anything else on the plane...George had to go through a huge amount of pain and had to let go of most of her clothes to reach the limit of 20+7 kg which has to include the bike and some climbing stuff...very painful!
The last leg of the trip has taken us up along the coast along very beautiful beaches, national parks and much warmer, nicer weather! All of which was much welcomed! We tried to stick to the coast and even manage to ride on the beach for about 100kms altogether and avoided a couple of kilometers on the highway instead! It was a whole new experience to us, especially when we had no choice and had to ride 30kms through an RAAF shooting range. The locals said they only shoot at night and not directly on the beach...we rode pretty fast and didn't stop...until we had to push over a dune and came to the other side, thankfully without any unnatural holes in our bodies. The adventure for this part was that on a unavoidable Highway stretch north of Macksville, just after Nils tried to break the local all you can eat pancake record hold by an Norwegian with 38. The manager heard Nils accent and got slightly worried but he only managed to eat twelve. (He must have been a big big Norwegian-pancake-trained-piggy). So well fueled Nils maybe had to much energy and snapped his chain, just on the highway. So there we stood and no bikeshop around but hope came soon after pushing the bike to the next junction we met Wooooozz at the only place open...gardenshop. He offered us to take us back to Macksville where the next bikeshop was. It, of course, was closed on monday but nevermind that gave us the opportunity to stay a night in the beautiful place of Tracy&Woooza, which ended up beeing two nights and definetly a highlight to our cycling trip. We went fishing, met our first pet cow and just had a really nice and relaxing time altogether, thank you guys!!!! You made us feel very welcome!
We are just spending our last hours in brisbane before we leave to Bangkok tomorrow early in the morning, and it is very exciting! After long back and forth we decided to take the bikes and the climbing equipment over, which means there is no space for anything else on the plane...George had to go through a huge amount of pain and had to let go of most of her clothes to reach the limit of 20+7 kg which has to include the bike and some climbing stuff...very painful!
The last leg of the trip has taken us up along the coast along very beautiful beaches, national parks and much warmer, nicer weather! All of which was much welcomed! We tried to stick to the coast and even manage to ride on the beach for about 100kms altogether and avoided a couple of kilometers on the highway instead! It was a whole new experience to us, especially when we had no choice and had to ride 30kms through an RAAF shooting range. The locals said they only shoot at night and not directly on the beach...we rode pretty fast and didn't stop...until we had to push over a dune and came to the other side, thankfully without any unnatural holes in our bodies. The adventure for this part was that on a unavoidable Highway stretch north of Macksville, just after Nils tried to break the local all you can eat pancake record hold by an Norwegian with 38. The manager heard Nils accent and got slightly worried but he only managed to eat twelve. (He must have been a big big Norwegian-pancake-trained-piggy). So well fueled Nils maybe had to much energy and snapped his chain, just on the highway. So there we stood and no bikeshop around but hope came soon after pushing the bike to the next junction we met Wooooozz at the only place open...gardenshop. He offered us to take us back to Macksville where the next bikeshop was. It, of course, was closed on monday but nevermind that gave us the opportunity to stay a night in the beautiful place of Tracy&Woooza, which ended up beeing two nights and definetly a highlight to our cycling trip. We went fishing, met our first pet cow and just had a really nice and relaxing time altogether, thank you guys!!!! You made us feel very welcome!
So, once the bike was fixed we caught a train to catch up the time schedule and cycled on to byron bay, where we enjoyed some nice hours in the sun to bongo music and dolphins surfing the waves on the beach. The last days to surfers paradise were quiet easy going flat and sunny so cycling in shorts and getting a tan was unavoidable.
This beautiful cycling time finished in surfers paradise, which is far to busy to be a paradise, and we both will never forget the time and people we met, strongly recommended!
At the moment we are sitting in Bangkok just of Khao San Road, just assembled our bikes together in our room and what a culture difference! Nils just had his first tuk tuk ride and is so hot that we can't imagine cycling yet...but every day feels better and we are just happy beeing able to experience the new culture and the cheap food and drinks...
You will hear from us soon with new adventures, this time highly likely from the vertical world because we are heading south to Krabi! yeahhhhh!
Fishing Wooz and Nils
The Roof for two nights
Nambuca head
us with tracy and wooz
the first Dingo we saw
Moocha the pet cow, knows his name and likes to go for a walk with his leash
Sally didn't fit in our panniers
Nils rescueing the boat
surfer paradise...the end of our trip...huhuuhhh, cry
this bat was just hanging around our tent at night
cycling byron bay is great fun
surfers paradise at sunset
our first surgarcane chewing
the smallest post office in the world
there were only a couple of cars, some of them quite new, burried in our way
