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.
søndag 26. september 2010
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.
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!
fredag 24. september 2010
Australia - here I come
Tickets are booked, countdown started and I'm going to celebrate christmas and new year in Australia! I really can't wait! Like last time, I'm traveling by my self - no problem in Australia, maybe a bit boring on the 29 hour long trip over and 26 hour trip back home.
The trip isn't planned at all, all I know at this stage is that I'm arriving in Perth and departing from Sydney a month later. Suggestions to what I can do or go? Please tell me about it!
The trip isn't planned at all, all I know at this stage is that I'm arriving in Perth and departing from Sydney a month later. Suggestions to what I can do or go? Please tell me about it!
It's nothing like home?
Hi! Sorry for not blogging in a while, but I'm back in Norway, started school and stuff like that. School's great, have lot of fun, many new friends, but also a lot of homework, essays and boring stuff too. But more about that later, first I'm going to update you about my last days on interrail:
I had a great time visiting my aunt i Germany, but it was also nice to move on - I don't like to stay at the same place for too long. So I headed of to Frankfurt to take the plane to Arlanda, Stockholm - but lucky me, I managed to twist my foot (with my backpack on my back), so I had a nice swollen foot and a lot of pain.. Well, shit happens and swellings disappear.
Stockholm was nice, but very boring too - it basically reminded me too much of Oslo, and that's a bit boring. Meeting up with my Swedish brother, and hang out with him a whole day, that was great. He's such a cool guy!
The hostel I stayed in in Stockholm was brand new so I think I was the third guest staying there. It was a nice place, the host was Russian of some sort, but have studied in Norway and lived in Sweden in ages - however he still only spoke English to me. Funny. This was actually the hostel I had the most trouble getting friends. Then again, I can't get friends for life everywhere.
After a few days in Stockholm, I got a plane with only 25 seats to Trondheim. It was a nice ride if I ignore all the turbulence. At the airport were my sister, brither-in-law, mum, Per Øyvind and my almost five year old nephew waiting. That was nice, and nothing is like lunch at IKEA.
I had a great time visiting my aunt i Germany, but it was also nice to move on - I don't like to stay at the same place for too long. So I headed of to Frankfurt to take the plane to Arlanda, Stockholm - but lucky me, I managed to twist my foot (with my backpack on my back), so I had a nice swollen foot and a lot of pain.. Well, shit happens and swellings disappear.
Stockholm was nice, but very boring too - it basically reminded me too much of Oslo, and that's a bit boring. Meeting up with my Swedish brother, and hang out with him a whole day, that was great. He's such a cool guy!
The hostel I stayed in in Stockholm was brand new so I think I was the third guest staying there. It was a nice place, the host was Russian of some sort, but have studied in Norway and lived in Sweden in ages - however he still only spoke English to me. Funny. This was actually the hostel I had the most trouble getting friends. Then again, I can't get friends for life everywhere.
After a few days in Stockholm, I got a plane with only 25 seats to Trondheim. It was a nice ride if I ignore all the turbulence. At the airport were my sister, brither-in-law, mum, Per Øyvind and my almost five year old nephew waiting. That was nice, and nothing is like lunch at IKEA.
fredag 30. juli 2010
Wuhu!
Family, friends, I'm still alive. Right now I'm in Altenfeld, Thüringen, at my aunts house. To be honest, this is in the middle of nowhere, but it's calm and I don't have to stress. But, it is in the middle of nowhere, and I have even been stopped in the middle of the street here and asked if I really lived here. So small is the place. I also have to apoligise to you all for taking so long to update my blog (and my very pooor and bad English, it seems like it has disappeared out of my head after I entered Germany and had to speak German).
I have a lot to tell you all; I've seen orange snails and have drunk water from the Magic forrest, so now I can fly. I miss all my friends. I miss Budapest abnd that crazy ass hippie-hostel and Ty and Kara. And Iris. Some persons in my family are to put it mildly... crazy. Others aren't. I have visited lots of family and family of my family, which I'm not related to, but had a lot of spaß. I joined MAnfred for work one day - now I can build roads. I've been car sick... A lot of car sick. I've gained two kilos here at Tante Barbara (I had lost eight, aber nicht mehr). I've experienced thunder and lightning in every country but Italy. My head has a wonderful language soup; I think in three languages at the same time, and when I try to speak it's all jibberish!
Photos will come later, but hopefully sooner.
I hope y'all are alright. Lots of love from Altenfeld!
I have a lot to tell you all; I've seen orange snails and have drunk water from the Magic forrest, so now I can fly. I miss all my friends. I miss Budapest abnd that crazy ass hippie-hostel and Ty and Kara. And Iris. Some persons in my family are to put it mildly... crazy. Others aren't. I have visited lots of family and family of my family, which I'm not related to, but had a lot of spaß. I joined MAnfred for work one day - now I can build roads. I've been car sick... A lot of car sick. I've gained two kilos here at Tante Barbara (I had lost eight, aber nicht mehr). I've experienced thunder and lightning in every country but Italy. My head has a wonderful language soup; I think in three languages at the same time, and when I try to speak it's all jibberish!
Photos will come later, but hopefully sooner.
I hope y'all are alright. Lots of love from Altenfeld!
tirsdag 20. juli 2010
Buda
Everybody - I'm alright, eventhough my sister have called my mother and said that I'm thrown of the train between Moscow and St. Petersburg. The truth is, I'm in Hungary, and I have a very good time. Today it has been pouring down and been thoundering a bit, but that's allright. I have also booked a seet for Munich, a plain to Stockholm and a plain from Stockholm to Trondheim. No need to worry.
I feel happy here, but I'm comming home. Sooner or later.
xxx
I feel happy here, but I'm comming home. Sooner or later.
xxx
mandag 19. juli 2010
Tamtam!
Hey everybody! Rome was great, and I sadly had to leave it not to long ago. But, like most people I left a mark - more precisely Pepsi Twits stains in the ceiling. I also made Dan, the "bodygurad", cut his long disgusting hair short!
My journey from Roma wasn't very fun to put it mildly - I slept in a 5 m2 sleeper room vith five other ladies. No air con, no space. Guess who got a cold! So now I have clogged sinuses and a sore throat. Yay!
Vienna was nice. Tom and I, Tom is a guy I met in Berlin, met up there, we went to the Schoenbrunn castle and saw the gardens. We walked randomly around. And Tom set of the firealarm when he was making his breakfast. Tom claims that it was the best 400 Euro sandwich ever. Tom also says he's the coolest guy ever. He's also a douche. Hahah. No, just kidding.
Now we have left Vienna, and we are on a secret mission in an uknown destination. So, Mamma, if you read this - don't be worried (Tom says he looking after me, but I don't trust him)!
xxx
My journey from Roma wasn't very fun to put it mildly - I slept in a 5 m2 sleeper room vith five other ladies. No air con, no space. Guess who got a cold! So now I have clogged sinuses and a sore throat. Yay!
Vienna was nice. Tom and I, Tom is a guy I met in Berlin, met up there, we went to the Schoenbrunn castle and saw the gardens. We walked randomly around. And Tom set of the firealarm when he was making his breakfast. Tom claims that it was the best 400 Euro sandwich ever. Tom also says he's the coolest guy ever. He's also a douche. Hahah. No, just kidding.
Now we have left Vienna, and we are on a secret mission in an uknown destination. So, Mamma, if you read this - don't be worried (Tom says he looking after me, but I don't trust him)!
xxx
mandag 12. juli 2010
This is Rome
and not Sparta! Rome is very nice, and I love it, but as my mother said the other day, I was expecting and was prepared for everything on this trip - except the heat!
I came to Rome early on saturday, and was planning to meet up with James, who I met in Berlin. But James didn't meet me where we had planned, so I ate lunch by my self. Later on the way back home, started this "student" from the university to follow me around, and he wasn't evern scared of by my "boyfriend" that waited for me, and expected me at anytime. I managed in the end to shake him of, but of course he managed to kiss me in the cheek, before I ran of. Back at the hostel did I sleep the next three hours.
The next day (yesterday) was equally hot, and Dan and I, the guy I hired to protect me, went to the Vatican. The Vatican was packed with tourists of course, and after a tour down in the tomb, we went Castel Sant' Angelo, where it was suprisingly chilling and lovely. We also walked to the Piazza Navona, before we stopped by the Pantheon. In the end did we end up at the memorial for the unknown soldier.
At this point I started to have so much pain in my leg, that I have to give up Fontana di Trevi and take a taxi home.
Today I've spent the day at the hostel, and at the laundry place, while I've tried to relax my foot (which doesn't seem to get better). But as my mother told me on the phone, I should concider go to the hospital.
I'm alright, I only look like a sack of potatos!
I came to Rome early on saturday, and was planning to meet up with James, who I met in Berlin. But James didn't meet me where we had planned, so I ate lunch by my self. Later on the way back home, started this "student" from the university to follow me around, and he wasn't evern scared of by my "boyfriend" that waited for me, and expected me at anytime. I managed in the end to shake him of, but of course he managed to kiss me in the cheek, before I ran of. Back at the hostel did I sleep the next three hours.
The next day (yesterday) was equally hot, and Dan and I, the guy I hired to protect me, went to the Vatican. The Vatican was packed with tourists of course, and after a tour down in the tomb, we went Castel Sant' Angelo, where it was suprisingly chilling and lovely. We also walked to the Piazza Navona, before we stopped by the Pantheon. In the end did we end up at the memorial for the unknown soldier.
At this point I started to have so much pain in my leg, that I have to give up Fontana di Trevi and take a taxi home.
Today I've spent the day at the hostel, and at the laundry place, while I've tried to relax my foot (which doesn't seem to get better). But as my mother told me on the phone, I should concider go to the hospital.
søndag 11. juli 2010
Pictures - Berlin
The trainstation in Berlin
David's little cosy backpacker hostel.
Brandenburger Tor.
Holocost memorial.
The Berlin Wall.
Waiting for the bus; James, Venice, Evelyn, Laura, Meric and Arda.
Do not drink this!
torsdag 8. juli 2010
Firenze
Hey everybody!
This girl just arrived in Firenze (Florence) after ten hours on trains without air condition! My shoulders aren't as pink as yesterday, but still not a pretty sight! Firenze is really hot, and I'm glad I went here today, and not tomorrow, because tomorrow they have decided to strike!
The hostel is really nice, and has a very high standard! I haven't experienced much of Firenze yet,but I think I'm going to have a great time anyway!
Hope everybody still are good, and pleace, when you leave a comment, please do leave your name as well (unless you're my secret lover of course)!
xxx
This girl just arrived in Firenze (Florence) after ten hours on trains without air condition! My shoulders aren't as pink as yesterday, but still not a pretty sight! Firenze is really hot, and I'm glad I went here today, and not tomorrow, because tomorrow they have decided to strike!
The hostel is really nice, and has a very high standard! I haven't experienced much of Firenze yet,but I think I'm going to have a great time anyway!
Hope everybody still are good, and pleace, when you leave a comment, please do leave your name as well (unless you're my secret lover of course)!
xxx
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