I've got a fever - travel fever

I have one watch on each hand - the one on the left hand shows the present time in Norway. The one on the right hand is many hours wrong - or so it seems, but the truth is much simpler; it shows Perth time. It's less than a day until I leave. I've been grumpy, yelling and not very fun to be with, just ask my mom. I just want to travel. I know I should go to sleep, the time moves so much faster then. I can't sleep, I just can't. My bag is packed, but still, I still got this nagging feeling of something forgotten. Passport - check. Tickets - check. What is it? What can it be? I try to calm my self by saying I probably can buy it in Australia. Seriously - what is it? I know I've forgotten my nail clipper, but that can't be it. I just have to wait and see.

It was so hard to pack. How warm is 28 degrees? Can I pack my woolen socks, it's so cold outside. Trousers, long underpants and big knitted sweaters. Everything tells me I wont need them, but still, I want to bring them. I am so afraid of freezing, but as my mother said; I will probably think 15 degrees is warm. I keep thinking, thins summer it was 45 degrees in Rome. That was nice. 28 degrees in Perth must be freezing. The nine below zero here in Norway is nothing, that's warm.

I keep talking. I should sleep. I want to travel right about now.

The countdown has started

Time left for Australia:

I'm so looking forward to this - my first exam is finished, I only have to essays, one test and one exam left. Then to partys, then I go home to Hamar and then my friends, then I go to the airport and leave for Australia! Yay!

My life has been a bit sucky lately; my computer died (and I mean - it's dead, gone, can't be reoaired) with my finished essay. So now I have to write it again. I don't want to hear a single word about backup, alright? A while back a go my watch broke as well - my lovely watch which had lots gems on the Chinese wall, Budapest, my favorite pub, at the cabin trip - and they told me when I went to repair it; it dead, gone, can't repaired. It's just my lucky week.

18 days to go...

..and six days to my first exam. I can't really say I'm looking forward to the exam, but I have to have it, I have to make it, if I'm to travel in the future as well.

Since last time, I've booked hostels, I've talked with mr. Wan, I've talked to Kara, and I've booked hostels! Wehey! So here's the plan:

Perth: 15. - 19. 12
I'm going to stay at Governor Robinsons Backpackers Hostel
Plans: Relax, get some tan and get rid of the jetlag.

Adelaide: 19. - 23.12
Thanks you Kara, I could stay at her place. She's so lovely!
Plans: ?

In to the bush: 23. - 25.12
A three day camping trip between Adelaide and Melbourne. Grampains, Great Ocean road, snakes, camp fire and stuff like that.
Plans: Get bit by a snake

Melbourne: 25. - 30.12
In lovely Melbourne, I'm going to stay at a place called "The Nunnery"
Plans: ?

Hobart: 30.12.10 - 04.01.11
At this lovely island I'm going to stay at Tassie Backpacker and hopefully see the last boats arrive from Sydney.
Plans: The Rolex race

Sydney: 04. - 15.01
Last hostel booked, but I have big hopes for Eva's Backpackers.
Plans: Walk the Great Harbour Bridge, parachute, go to Bondi Beach

And now; back to my books and exams!

Norway - the beautifullest country in the world

Lommedalen in Bærum - the place where the Norwegian princess Märta and her husband Ari lives.

Very idyllic, but the two first days were kind of.. foggy.

Thank you Australia!

I went to the police house to get my passport, took the tram back to the university, applied for a tourist visa to Australia, failed the first time, tried again, went to and attended some science project the guys at psychology had, got chocolate, went home, opened my mail and saw that I was granted a visa.

Thank you Australia for spending four hours, and not four weeks as I thought, to grant me a vista. Take that, Norway!

I've spent way too much money

When I say too much money, I really mean too much money. Than again, if I spend the money now, I wont spend it in Australia. If you want to know why I've spent so much money - here's the answer; I've bought plane tickets. I can tell you, flying domestic in Australia isn't cheap, espesially when you're going from one coast to the other, with a couple of stops in between.

Flying from Perth to Adelaide cost me 433 AUD. I don't know whether that's a reasonable price for a five hour flight. Spent is spent. From Adelaide I'm going to Melbourne, but not by plane, by bus! I can't wait, for the rumor is saying that the Great Ocean Road and the Grampains are beautiful places. I think the best of all is that during the busride, the rest of the world is going to celebrate christmas. I however am going to spend it in the bush. Hurray! Arriving late at christmas day in Melbourne, I'm going to spend a couple of days there before I'm going to pop on a plain to Hobart, Tasmania. My hope is of course to see a Tasmanian Devil, but I think spending new years there is going to be great anyway.
The plan after Hobart was to fly to Canberra but it seems like I can't have everything I want; the tickets cost nearly 700 AUD for a three hour ride, so I booked tickets for Sydney instead. The only "problem" is then that I have to spend 11 days there. I want to travel more, so I planning to travel somewhere from Sydney by train og rather go back to Sydney a couple days later!

While in Sydney some of my plans are already made; I want to walk The Great Harbour Bridge and parachute! I also hope to go back to that zoo a couple of hours south of Sydney where I was almost eleven years ago.

47 days to go!

There is nothing more sexy than...

... flight socks!

Don't my knees look wonderfully squashed?

Test

Just testing whether it's possible to add music to my blog posts :)

Wish list and things I need to fix before I go

Things I want or need to my trip to Australia (and other places):
- Clothes line
- Another towel (I probably need two in Australia)
- Money belt (I wore the old one out this summer)
- Folding cutlery (I experienced that cutlery wasn't always present at all the hostels in Europe, why should it be in Australia?)
- Travel insurance from 1. january (any suggestions to a cheap, reliable one?)
- Visa
- Map over Australia
- Pillow and eye shade for the plane trip

The list will be updated.

Preparations

When you traveling you always learn something. This summer I learned to speak English properly. I also learned that I needed sink plug - doing laundry in laundry places can be really expensive. So I went to Handysize at Oslo City yesterday and bought one. Hopefully I get to use it and if I wont, I surely will later.

I have also bought a book about Australia. Love it. I can sit the whole day sitting in the sofa reading it instead of doing homework. My mum, who is a angel, gave me the old book we used the last time we were in Australia, which is ten years this year. It might be a bit out-dated, but who cares? I also got the adapter. Wagle who lived with me for two week let me lend book as well, so basically I have three books about Australia. Absolutely love it!

I've made a travel box for Australia, so I know where everything is. Clever, huh? Well, I think so because things keep on disappearing in this small apartment. Signe thinks it's elfes, I think it's a thief.

One last clever thing to have is one of those thingies that enables you to use your own headset on the plane. I think my mum and I stole it on a airplane years ago, and it's very handy - you actually get sound on two ears instead of one!