We arrived to Melbourne on last Monday late at night. The next morning we went looking for this coffee places that Melbourne is known for. We found a nice place and order breakfast. While we were waiting, a mid age strange looking women started to examine Gali, at first I thought it was someone who knew her or was wondering whether she recognizes her. Then she became real close to us, never taking her eyes from Gali and yelled "surprised!, are you scared?". Gali automatically said yes (and indeed she was) I asked her what the fuck is wrong with you. She kept looking at us and got really close to Gali, at this point I was screaming at her to back the hell away or I swear to god I'll beat the shit out of her. The owner of the place noticed (like everyone else in the place) the scene and came to see what's all the noise about. The crazy women started to say that Gali is evil and that she is very dangerous and stuff like that. The owner realized that she is crazy and kicked her out. We then noticed her bugging a new victim.
Other than that incident, Melbourne was really nice, though not as pretty as Sydney, it is still very cool place. We did "just a bit" of shopping and purchase a new apple MacBook (the coolest laptop there is). It's just that the price went down and we couldn't resist the temptation.
We left Melbourne today and started our drive along the "Great Ocean Road", it is known as one of the prettiest coastal drives in the world and for what we have seen so far, it is indeed so.
Most important of all - Tomorrow is Gali's birthday (which she's already got some gifts for) so don't forget to send gifts. Since the weddings checks were lost in the mail, you can deposit them directly to our bank account (-:
Doron & Gali
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Saturday, May 19, 2007
The Gold Coast
Hi guys,
It has been a while since our last post. Many things have changed since then. We rented a car at Sydney and drove to Canberra (general direction south) which is Australia's capital city. It reminded us a bit of Washington D.C, a lot of "important" buildings to see and monuments but nothing much to do. Canberra is also where all the embassies are located, there are ~30 embassies located within a 3 blocks area. Each embassy decorated in a matter that resembles its origin, most of them have security lesser than an average mall. The Israeli one was very easy to find, it was the only one surrounded with roadblocks, high fences and armed police patrols. We would have taken a picture but we were too afraid to be shot.
After one night at Canberra we headed back toward the coast (still south to Sydney) and stayed the night at some small town. It was that night that we decided that the south coast is boring and we much rather travel the east coast instead. We made the necessary arrangements (rental car drop off location, flights, etc.) It's unnecessary to mention that this sort of change required a whole day drive and more than 500 KM. The same drill for the two following days.
The visit to Port Macquarie (a city just north to Sydney) was a special one. We finally got to pet a Koala. We went to a Koala breeding center. We arrived there at 17:00 so the petting hour was over. We were very disappointed so we had to spent the night in the city and return at the following day. Finally on the next morning we got to pet a Koala and even hand feed some kangaroos.
We visited some cool beach towns and rested at a place called Surfers Paradise (You can imagine the waves there) for 2 days.
The most exciting thing we have to tell is about our visit to theme park named "Dream World". It's the most (or the only, we don't really know) famous park in Australia. We (or at least Gali) went on all the rides in the park and it was a great fun.
We arrived to Brisbane at the same day and found a nice backpackers to stay at. We spend there 2 nights, we didn't like Brisbane very much so we continued north to Harvey Bay. Today we took a day trip safari to Fraser island, it was very nice but a bit too mature ("Gil Hazahav") and cost a lot of money.
In 2 days we are flying to Melbourne.
Gali & Doron
It has been a while since our last post. Many things have changed since then. We rented a car at Sydney and drove to Canberra (general direction south) which is Australia's capital city. It reminded us a bit of Washington D.C, a lot of "important" buildings to see and monuments but nothing much to do. Canberra is also where all the embassies are located, there are ~30 embassies located within a 3 blocks area. Each embassy decorated in a matter that resembles its origin, most of them have security lesser than an average mall. The Israeli one was very easy to find, it was the only one surrounded with roadblocks, high fences and armed police patrols. We would have taken a picture but we were too afraid to be shot.
After one night at Canberra we headed back toward the coast (still south to Sydney) and stayed the night at some small town. It was that night that we decided that the south coast is boring and we much rather travel the east coast instead. We made the necessary arrangements (rental car drop off location, flights, etc.) It's unnecessary to mention that this sort of change required a whole day drive and more than 500 KM. The same drill for the two following days.
The visit to Port Macquarie (a city just north to Sydney) was a special one. We finally got to pet a Koala. We went to a Koala breeding center. We arrived there at 17:00 so the petting hour was over. We were very disappointed so we had to spent the night in the city and return at the following day. Finally on the next morning we got to pet a Koala and even hand feed some kangaroos.
We visited some cool beach towns and rested at a place called Surfers Paradise (You can imagine the waves there) for 2 days.
The most exciting thing we have to tell is about our visit to theme park named "Dream World". It's the most (or the only, we don't really know) famous park in Australia. We (or at least Gali) went on all the rides in the park and it was a great fun.
We arrived to Brisbane at the same day and found a nice backpackers to stay at. We spend there 2 nights, we didn't like Brisbane very much so we continued north to Harvey Bay. Today we took a day trip safari to Fraser island, it was very nice but a bit too mature ("Gil Hazahav") and cost a lot of money.
In 2 days we are flying to Melbourne.
Gali & Doron
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Sydney - Australia
Hi all,
We stayed there a whole week splitting our time between lying at beach and touring the city.
After a week here we rented a car and started our ride along the south coast.
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