More travels

Next stop was Red Rocks, a tiny litle dot on the map! Not many people know about this place it is so small, but they are all Australians and come here for the holidays year after year. We were so lucky to get a cabin for the night! There was no supermarcet at the place, no restaurants just a litle local kiosk.....BUT there was a liquor store!!! So we got our red wine and beer :-) It was really nice going to the small, quiet beach the morning after and take a dip!

After Red Rocks we went to Byron Bay, which I love. The laid back atmosphere and beautiful surroundings. There we went to the most easterly point in Australia, where the view was great. We walked down to Julian Rocks which was good exercise for lazy tourists...hehehe..

The view over Byron Bay!

The next stop was Sunshine Coast where we stayed at Mooloolaba and it was so great to be back "home"!!! I showed S&E Varsity, where I lived last semester and the Uni. Unfortunetely the Uni was closed so we couldn't see anything on the inside. But they got a pretty good feeling about the life at Uni.

We held Christmas in Brisbane. A litle bit different from our usual style, I must say, but interesting nevertheless. Some friends sent me christmas decos so we tried to make our hotel room a litle bit cosy...and our alternative Christmas tree...!!! But mom brought of course the most important things: Laufabraud and Noa Chocolate mmmm so we had real Christmas despite the heat.

Next days we wandered around in Brisbane. Nice city but it isn't Paris! This guy was pretty cool, playing Christmas songs on beer botles hihi. Then mom and Eirikur went home to Iceland and I met Cecilia, and we headed down south again in our rental station car... the travelling must go on!

Australia Day

Today is Australia Day and everybody is out enjoying the sun, the bbq, the wafes or the beer! But ms. Iceland sits inside in her litle room and translatets danish to icelandic!!!! Sick or what! No...just so responsable :-)

I found two friends to live with and we've spent the last week in finding-viewing-applying for units and houses for rent. This takes a lot of time, especially because we don't have a car and the busses here are like home in Iceland. They come once every hour, if they come at all! So I decided to dedicate this weekend to working and finishing my scholarship applications!

Here are some more travel stories:

After Hunter Valley we drove off to the east coast and stopped at Hawks nest, where the weather was a litle bit windy and not warm enough to bath! But it was so nice to see the beach and the ocean again. We drove off to Seal Rocks (this photo) which was really beautiful and the area around was nice as well. We ended up sleeping in Port Maquarie which is a nice town for holiday.

In Port Maquaire we saw the nice dolphins jumping and kissing people. You could get in the water with them for 30 min. for $200 and after seeing that I was glad I didn't hop in. Because the only thing people were allowed to do was to pet them a litle bit, hugg them, kiss them and throw a ball to them. So not too exciting!

More travel stories

Hi again everybody. I'm back at the coast now and momentarely living in my old room at campus. I am looking for a new place to stay and the dream is to find something at the beach. I hope it will all work out. I have a lot to do now, so I try to keep occupied every day. On my To Do list is:

• Find a new place to stay
• Make CV and look for a job
• Transelate a Danish book to Icelandic
• Applying for Scholaships
• SURF

But you know how it is when you have "all the time in the world", then sometimes not all that much happens. But I have started the most of it :-)

I got some friends over as well, and met the friends that still are here at the coast. Love beeing back and seeing them all again. Am looking forward to start Uni again, so I'm pretty positive!

About the comments! They come to me first and I have to agree to put them on the site, so thats why you cannot see them as before. I don't even know why, but I like it...

And here comes the rest of my travel story:



Mom and Eirikur came to Sydney couple of days after Henry left to Denmark. They where really excited about beeing here and took probably thousands of photos ;-)

We walked around the whole city and enjoyed the beautiful Opera House and Harbour Bridge, the Rocks, the Botanic Gardens and so on.... We even went to listen to Mesiah in the Opera House which was really cool. 500 people choir which was pretty amazing, but I have to admit that I think it would have been more thrilling in a house with better acoustics. So I guess the story is true about the conditions inside of this georgious house!

We rented a car and went to Blue Mountains, a beautiful National park near Sydney. We arrived in the afternoon and it was raining and really foggy. It cleared up the morning after and it was amazing to see the fog wanish in the speed it did. We did a 2 hour bush walk which startet off with walking down hundreds of steps down an 100 meter steep slope. At the end we took a railway up similarily steep slope and tunnel in the mountain. Pretty cool! We drove around the area and checket out some of the other lookouts. Beautiful place. And the litle towns are so nice and cute, our favourite was Leura, but that was maybe effected by the litle shops we mom got enthusiastic about. I got Australian Christmas balls of a Koala and a Kangaroo ;-)

Then we drove off to Hunter Valley where we tasted some really good wine and chees. The surroundings where beautiful and we had a really relaxing time with a lot of good food! Luxury life travelling with the old folks, I can tell you that!

I'm working on putting more photos in the album and I'll let you know when all the travel photos are there so you don't have to see the same photos over and over again :-)

Love Habba

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!

Hi everybody. I'm in Sidney now and yesterday I saw the fireworks over Harbour Bridge! It was pretty cool, but I have to admit that the fireworks in Reykjavik are even better! Nothing compares to the Icelandic madness!!!!

We don't have too many plans for the next week but I will be going home to the Sunny Coast at the 7. January. Looking forward to relax a litle and want to start my search for a place to stay and a place to work as well. ( It is pretty expensive living the luxury life of travelling)

So you here from me soon again.

Cheers Habba

UNI

I always forgot to tell you that I passed all my exams with great results. Cannot say that I expected anything else.... ;-) I have enrolled for next semester which commends at 24th of Febuary. I'm actually looking forward to start.... The courses I will be taking are:

Environmental Studies
Tourism Management
Tourism Behaviour and Special Interest
Science Research Methods

Kveðja Habba

Merry Christmas everyone :-)

Now in Brisbane at an hotel, we have celebrated Christmas in an unusual style! To say the least. It was a litle bit strange yesterday to wander the streets in shorts, t-shirts and sunnies, knowing it was Christmas day! Of course they celebrate the 25. here in Australia so there were many people buying the last gifts yesterday.

I got amazing parcel from Sara in Denmark. She sent me a gift-calender for every day in December. Unfortunetely I just got it yesterday so I opened up all the litle packages and got a lot of Christmas ornaments so we could decorate the room. It was perfect, and what a work she put in to it. Amazing! Jóhanna, my causin, sent me decos as well and candles smelling of Christmas, so I have to admit that we got in a litle bit of Christmas mood....

The tree was a litle bit alternative, as you can see on the photo!!! It worked though!

Because we are staying in an hotel, we had to make a litle bit alternative Christmas dinner. (went for example specially to McDonalds to steel salt and peppar...) We made beef stake with heaps of vegetables, and different cakes for dessert. Then we opened up all the gifts, read and went to bed. Really nice Christmas :-)

Sydney

Yeah and then it happened, we missed our flight to Sydney! I was certain it was at 8:20 and not 6:20 so we arrived at the airport at 6:40 and I wanted to kill myself!!! Damn it! OK, so we had to by new tickets, that cost more then double then the first one!! We waited at the airport in Cairns for about 10 hours...and it was booooring ;-) But we got all the way to Sydney that night as you can see......

My god I was so excited to see the opera hous. I don't even remember how many years I have wanted to see it, and now I was there. WOW, how cool. I got chills and almost tears in my eyes...

The Harbour Bridge is beautiful as well and it is really spectacular standing there with the bridge on the left hand and the Opera hous on the right one. Actually it is really hard to take the eyes of the OH...so cool and beautiful building!

We checked out the Botanic gardens, the Rocks and Darling Harbour. Bought some Christmas gifts as well and relaxed at cafés. Sidney is a nice city, no doubt about that.