Saturday, August 15, 2009
A frog on my toe!
We spent the night at my brother-in-law's place last night after a very nice BarB with friends of theirs. The occasion was to "watered" the bar put up by the cattle shed. You see, my bro-in-law is a Md but really, a gentleman farmer at heart. And so, they have a few cattles here and there and needed...
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Noosa Head and a Hump-back
Yesterday we went to Noosa Head for a walk in the park. It has changed so much that, although my Mann has been going there for holidays since he was 18 yrs old, at one point we were wondering if we were going in the good direction towards the beach and the park! And he had seen it only 3 yrs ago,...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
FInally, Heidelberg on the web!
We had our first storm last night: first rain in about 1 1/2 month, so, no complaint here! Because of the storm we had trouble with the internet connection, but it seems fine now. So, there you go: I have finally added two pages about Heidelberg and its castle in my web-site. Have a look if you...
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Calming sight and tears
There are a few pelicans that stay around on the sand bank during the low tide, in front of the apartment. And I've noticed that 2 of them are always together, swimming or standing on the beach or fishing.... Actually, they don't seem to do a lot of fishing around here: they wait for the...
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Macho-men and desert
I've noticed a little something that I don't recall noticing before! It started in New Zealand actually. Or, more exactly, I started noticing it there. But, it must have been going on every time we came in Australia, surely. I'm talking about the way men won't look at me when I am with my Mann and...
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Fruhlingfest in... Queensland!
We went to the Fruhlingfest of my nieces and nephews's school yesterday and had lots of fun! How funny to be on the other side of the world and participating to a German Spring Party! Can't escape Germany, it seems. Why a German party in Aussie? Well, first of all, it is NOT commun in down under....
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Friday, August 7, 2009
Mangonui...New Zealand
My Mann would like to retire in New Zealand. Did I already tell you? He bought a small block of land some years ago overlooking a nice little bay and the ocean farther away. It is in a small little town at about 30 km from the nearest city of a few thousand souls (remember the whole of NZ population...
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
The Giants of the New Zealand Forests: the Kauri
Once upon a time, there were in New Zealand thousands of majestic huge trees called Kauri (pronounced ka-o-ri). The tips of these giants were standing 100 feet (30 m) or more over our heads and their trunk were about 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) of circonference. A few of these trees did survive...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
New Zealand, part II, the roads...
In New Zealand you don't go walking in the forest or in the trails, nop, you go trampling. And what beautiful trampling one can do in this green mountainous country with the ocean which is never too far! To go farther and a bit faster, there are roads and the main road in NZ is the highway 1, it...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Back from New Zealand
It's been a long time... We're back from New Zealand and it was fantastic! Beautiful green country and not too too cold in the north on the north island!LOL We were there for 8 days and had only 2 days of rain (the locals told me that this was very good indeed for NZ). A few things I noticed on the...
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