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G’day From Melbourne

November 23rd, 2010 | View Comments

Well, it is not as easy as I thought to keep two blogs about “down under” up to date. That is why my German blog will probably get priority over this one – meaning that I will probably report in smaller doses here. After my family and friends said good-bye to us at the Frankfurt airport last Thursday, our first aim was Singapore, where we arrived approximately 13 hours after take-off in Frankfurt. After 2 hours waiting time at the Singapore airport, it took us another 6.5 hours to arrive at Tullamarine airport in Melbourne, Australia. Everything went quite smoothly – we had only 74 kg luggage altogether, which gave us an emergency reserve of 6 kg (since we ordered our tickets with the IOM, we had 40 kg + … Read entire article »

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Off To Australia – For Good!

November 18th, 2010 | View Comments

This might be the last time I am writing something onto this blog in Germany. At around midnight, I will be on the Qantas plane to Melbourne – with a one way ticket! I only just managed to set up my new German blog, marco-in-australien.de – so, if you are German and you are interested in how Australia appears to one, have a look at it. I don’t quite now how I am going to handle blog posts about Australia on two different blogs (one in English and one in German)… but you will find English posts under this page/category named “Down Under”. Hope we’ll stay in touch – I’ll certainly miss the one or the other… … Read entire article »

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