We left Devonport Friday night(the 23rd), and have had a lovely long weekend in Hobart, staying with a local guy called James Parry! The long weekend was because of Australia Day on Monday, like 17.mai, just without the parades:) We went to the beach, and James held a concert(turns out he is a very talented musician!) and then we drove from barbeque to barbeque, just like every australian does that day, it is all about summer and sun and barbeque and not have to work.
Interestingly enough, the Indigenous people call it Invation Day, so to honour them and tell the world we see their side of the story too, and that it is a horrible story, we wore stickers with the Aboriginal Flag, in black and red with a yellow sun in the middle.
All in all it was a good day!
The rest of the time in Hobart, we have been fixing money stuff in the bank, gone to the museum, James has shown us the inside of Knockwood, that's an institution in Hobart, a pub that is more than 100 years old, called Nobby by the australians(why oh why do they have to make shortnames for everuthing? Aussie(Australia/australian), Tassie(Tasmania), Oz(Australia), Tas Vac( Tasmanian Vacuum Cleaners) and so on and so on.. Everything should end with ssie... or something:) Hahaha!) and read a lot of books and basically not been stressed out:) It's been a good week, and as we knew, so much more is going on in Hobart, compared to Devonport.. Turns out Devonport is the 3rd biggest city in Tassie(hehehe), and it is small... Well, all of Tassie(hehehe) is 500 000 people, so it is not the biggest place ever:) But Hobart has got charm and a good musicscene, it's share of the worlds happy hippies and nice cafees, and is not at all a bad place to stay for a few days:)
And now we're going to see the museum again, didn't have time to see it all yesterday!
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tirsdag 27. januar 2009
torsdag 22. januar 2009
Lakris-spisere
Siden 25 desember har vi naa spist 800 gr salt lakris, julegave fra Marit og Jason, tusen takk for gaven!
Hehe, vi regna paa det og Kristoffer har spist gjennomsnittlig 20 gr pr dag, 600 gr til sammen..
GRATULERER KRISTOFFER, FOR FANTASTISK INNSATS!
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Hehe, vi regna paa det og Kristoffer har spist gjennomsnittlig 20 gr pr dag, 600 gr til sammen..
GRATULERER KRISTOFFER, FOR FANTASTISK INNSATS!
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tirsdag 20. januar 2009
Hobart and Devonport
Here comes a tiny diary..
After enjoying Hobart and couchsurfing with Joanna for a few days, desperately calling every fruitfarm we could find on Yelow Pages, this happened:
Wed 14th january
0830 in the morning we are woken by the phone(slept long because of an excellent barbeque with Joanna and her friends the night before). It was Spreyton Fruitfarm needing pickers, and we said yes, of course!
So we packed our bags and ran for the bus, and went to Devonport, north on Tasmania(Hobart is all the way down south), that took all day. We met a really nice girl/woman on the bus, Jennifer, and she and her dad helped us finding a hostel for the night and everything, nice people! She even invited us for a concert on Sunday..
The lady at the hostel were quite negative, and said it wasn't season, so we probably didn't have a job after all.. So we went to bed a bit down.
Thursday 15th January
Woke up quite early, and called Spreyton Frutifarm. We got a job! We just had to get there by our selves.. It was only 6 km they said, so we tried to walk. Turned out to be more like 10 km, took us two hours.. That's a loooong way to work! But we could start straight away, so we just signed and started picking cherrys, and surprisingly pleasant job! Outside all day, sunshine, all good:) And we even got a bus back home, got a lift 3 km and then took the bus the remaining 7 km, and we were so tired, but when we finally got to the hostel, it turned out we didn't have a bed, the dorm was fully booked! So our bags was just pressed into the corner. Luckily they had another room.. So we had at least a place to stay for the night.
Friday 16th.
Up early, ran to the bus, almost missed it, cause we didn't know where it left from. Got to the farm at 8:45, after the bus, we still had to walk 3 loooong km.. Worked all day, and got a lift so we made it to the last bus home that day. Got to the hostel, and had to move, they were fully booked for the weekend. Put the backpacks on and walked 2 km to another hostel. Ate dinner at Hungry Jacks(Burger King)
Saturday 17th
Had to move to another hostel, cause they were full.. Enjoyed a day off, not doing much. Went to the cinema at night. Was ok.
Sunday 18th
An amazing day!
Jennifers dad, Glen, picked us up in Devonport(This is the people who helped us on Wednesday..)and drove us to Ulverstone, where the concert was. Turns out it is Jennifer that is playing, classic piano improvisation, it might have been a world premier on that kind of concert. She is really talented and has been a pianist for 23 years! And we had no idea she was a musician! Amazing! I have never heard anything like that, she just sat down and played, picked the notes down from the air or something, it was extraordinary!
After the concert, we went home to their house, and had coffee and sandwiches. When everyone else had left, the family decided to take us on a roadtrip, so we drove around for a few hours, seeing opiumfields(yes, it is opium, but for pharmaceutical use, and we couldn't take a picutre, the fields are watched with satelite..) Gunns Plains(amazing valley view..), and Ocean road. We ended the trip in a pizza place, and had dinner, and then they drove us home. Amazing!
Monday 19th
Up early, bus, walk 3 km, work all day, ran, I said RAN to catch the bus home(last bus..) and we made it! We even made it to the bikeshop, and rented 2 bikes, so now we didn't have to stress with the bus in the morning and we could get to work on time. Great!
Tuesday 20th.
Had to get up at 0530, pack our bags(had to move hostel that day too, cause they didn't allow people to stay more than 3 nights.. I don't know why! Just a rule..), breakfast, and then 10 km bikeride to work! Got there at 7:30 in the morning! great! Worked all day, and at 4:15 pm(15 minutes before we're finished for the day) they tell us that we are fired. FIRED!!! No more job.. Not enought cherrys for all the pickers, so the backpackers got fired first.. Puh! So ironic, we had just got the bikes!
So we left the farm, and were a bit sad and everything. And then we had to get back on our bikes, 10 km, and get our bags. And then ride back towards the farm for 3 km to get to the new hostel... A long day. And so ironic, we had finally solved the transportationproblem, and found a place to stay that was closer to the farm. And then they fired us.. Hm.. Many bad words would fit in here, haha!:)
Wednesday 21st
Well, yeah, that's today, and I think maybe it is time for us to see that Devonport is not the place for us, this is not meant to be, hahaha!:) In one week we'll leave for Sydney and then Honolulu, and then Mexico.. So we should just let it go and enjoy Tasmania!(On the bike we have paid for for so many days and now not need anymore?) Hehehe!:)
Yep, that was our week, any better?
g:)
After enjoying Hobart and couchsurfing with Joanna for a few days, desperately calling every fruitfarm we could find on Yelow Pages, this happened:
Wed 14th january
0830 in the morning we are woken by the phone(slept long because of an excellent barbeque with Joanna and her friends the night before). It was Spreyton Fruitfarm needing pickers, and we said yes, of course!
So we packed our bags and ran for the bus, and went to Devonport, north on Tasmania(Hobart is all the way down south), that took all day. We met a really nice girl/woman on the bus, Jennifer, and she and her dad helped us finding a hostel for the night and everything, nice people! She even invited us for a concert on Sunday..
The lady at the hostel were quite negative, and said it wasn't season, so we probably didn't have a job after all.. So we went to bed a bit down.
Thursday 15th January
Woke up quite early, and called Spreyton Frutifarm. We got a job! We just had to get there by our selves.. It was only 6 km they said, so we tried to walk. Turned out to be more like 10 km, took us two hours.. That's a loooong way to work! But we could start straight away, so we just signed and started picking cherrys, and surprisingly pleasant job! Outside all day, sunshine, all good:) And we even got a bus back home, got a lift 3 km and then took the bus the remaining 7 km, and we were so tired, but when we finally got to the hostel, it turned out we didn't have a bed, the dorm was fully booked! So our bags was just pressed into the corner. Luckily they had another room.. So we had at least a place to stay for the night.
Friday 16th.
Up early, ran to the bus, almost missed it, cause we didn't know where it left from. Got to the farm at 8:45, after the bus, we still had to walk 3 loooong km.. Worked all day, and got a lift so we made it to the last bus home that day. Got to the hostel, and had to move, they were fully booked for the weekend. Put the backpacks on and walked 2 km to another hostel. Ate dinner at Hungry Jacks(Burger King)
Saturday 17th
Had to move to another hostel, cause they were full.. Enjoyed a day off, not doing much. Went to the cinema at night. Was ok.
Sunday 18th
An amazing day!
Jennifers dad, Glen, picked us up in Devonport(This is the people who helped us on Wednesday..)and drove us to Ulverstone, where the concert was. Turns out it is Jennifer that is playing, classic piano improvisation, it might have been a world premier on that kind of concert. She is really talented and has been a pianist for 23 years! And we had no idea she was a musician! Amazing! I have never heard anything like that, she just sat down and played, picked the notes down from the air or something, it was extraordinary!
After the concert, we went home to their house, and had coffee and sandwiches. When everyone else had left, the family decided to take us on a roadtrip, so we drove around for a few hours, seeing opiumfields(yes, it is opium, but for pharmaceutical use, and we couldn't take a picutre, the fields are watched with satelite..) Gunns Plains(amazing valley view..), and Ocean road. We ended the trip in a pizza place, and had dinner, and then they drove us home. Amazing!
Monday 19th
Up early, bus, walk 3 km, work all day, ran, I said RAN to catch the bus home(last bus..) and we made it! We even made it to the bikeshop, and rented 2 bikes, so now we didn't have to stress with the bus in the morning and we could get to work on time. Great!
Tuesday 20th.
Had to get up at 0530, pack our bags(had to move hostel that day too, cause they didn't allow people to stay more than 3 nights.. I don't know why! Just a rule..), breakfast, and then 10 km bikeride to work! Got there at 7:30 in the morning! great! Worked all day, and at 4:15 pm(15 minutes before we're finished for the day) they tell us that we are fired. FIRED!!! No more job.. Not enought cherrys for all the pickers, so the backpackers got fired first.. Puh! So ironic, we had just got the bikes!
So we left the farm, and were a bit sad and everything. And then we had to get back on our bikes, 10 km, and get our bags. And then ride back towards the farm for 3 km to get to the new hostel... A long day. And so ironic, we had finally solved the transportationproblem, and found a place to stay that was closer to the farm. And then they fired us.. Hm.. Many bad words would fit in here, haha!:)
Wednesday 21st
Well, yeah, that's today, and I think maybe it is time for us to see that Devonport is not the place for us, this is not meant to be, hahaha!:) In one week we'll leave for Sydney and then Honolulu, and then Mexico.. So we should just let it go and enjoy Tasmania!(On the bike we have paid for for so many days and now not need anymore?) Hehehe!:)
Yep, that was our week, any better?
g:)
lørdag 10. januar 2009
From Melbourne to Hobart, to find a job..
We had a great time in Melbourne, and were able to stay longer than planned, because of Charlie, our couhcsurfing host, we stayed almost a week on his couch, great times:) Managed to see a concert with Lykke Li(from Sweden) and a lot of cafe's and surely a lot of internetcafes to, trying to figure things out.
We went to the government tax office one day, and the ugly guy in there laughed at us when we asked if we could get our tax back, and then he said slowly: N-O, Y-O-U C-A-N N-O-T G-E-T Y-O-U-R M-O-N-E-Y B-A-C-K , Y-O-U A-R-E O-N A H-O-L-I-D-A-Y, A H-O-L-I-D-A-Y... So apparently it makes perfectly sense to the government to take advantage of poor backpackers that are leaving the country, we have only paid 30% tax, and we're not using any of the good stuff coming from taxes in this country.. How stupid. And in a way horrible, it is so much money......
So we left Melbourne(were we had a great time, except from that horrible guy in the tax office..) and went to Hobart, on Tasmania, because everyone said that's where to go now, if you want a job for a few weeks! It is fruitpicking going on, a lot of it, but as it shows, everyone else has had the same idea, so here we are, soon we have called all the fruitfarm on this island, and none needs help.. Just not meant to be? Is that so? Horrible news, if you ask me!
But we have some good news too!(apart from being unemployed, which is really a dreadful feeling, even if it is only for a few days or weeks, we feel so useless! Not good..) We have bought tickets to Central America! The 30th of January we will fly to Honolulu(yes, Hawaii baby!!) and stay there a few days, then we have got tickets from Honolulu to Mexico City, where we will land in the beginning of February. Can't wait! So if we can't find a job now, we will just eat nudles for 3 weeks and then go to central america where everything is cheaper:) Sounds like a good plan to me:)
And that's about it!
If anyone knows anyone who needs a helping hand for 2 weeks time on Tasmania, let us know:) We'll do pretty much anything!
You have a good one, then!
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We went to the government tax office one day, and the ugly guy in there laughed at us when we asked if we could get our tax back, and then he said slowly: N-O, Y-O-U C-A-N N-O-T G-E-T Y-O-U-R M-O-N-E-Y B-A-C-K , Y-O-U A-R-E O-N A H-O-L-I-D-A-Y, A H-O-L-I-D-A-Y... So apparently it makes perfectly sense to the government to take advantage of poor backpackers that are leaving the country, we have only paid 30% tax, and we're not using any of the good stuff coming from taxes in this country.. How stupid. And in a way horrible, it is so much money......
So we left Melbourne(were we had a great time, except from that horrible guy in the tax office..) and went to Hobart, on Tasmania, because everyone said that's where to go now, if you want a job for a few weeks! It is fruitpicking going on, a lot of it, but as it shows, everyone else has had the same idea, so here we are, soon we have called all the fruitfarm on this island, and none needs help.. Just not meant to be? Is that so? Horrible news, if you ask me!
But we have some good news too!(apart from being unemployed, which is really a dreadful feeling, even if it is only for a few days or weeks, we feel so useless! Not good..) We have bought tickets to Central America! The 30th of January we will fly to Honolulu(yes, Hawaii baby!!) and stay there a few days, then we have got tickets from Honolulu to Mexico City, where we will land in the beginning of February. Can't wait! So if we can't find a job now, we will just eat nudles for 3 weeks and then go to central america where everything is cheaper:) Sounds like a good plan to me:)
And that's about it!
If anyone knows anyone who needs a helping hand for 2 weeks time on Tasmania, let us know:) We'll do pretty much anything!
You have a good one, then!
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