no worries
Jag pluggar i Australien under hösten 2006. Här kulturkrockar jag med allt och alla och utforska massvis av alldeles nya och uppfinningsrika sätt att göra bort mig, och delar med mig av dessa fantastiska pinsamheter till er. Grattis!
2006-09-28
Itinerary
Day 0: Melbourne - Sydney
- Have a terribly boring 9 hour train ride with two friends. Have about two hours of sleep.
- Arrive in Sydney
- See the opera house and the bridge from every possible angle and distance
- See every other monument and attraction there is to see in the city core
- See the city from above from the Sydney tower (NOT worth the time and the money)
- Try the monorail
- Visit the Sydney Aquarium
- Eat diner at a fancy Italian restaurant
- Buy cheap liquor at a store named “Cheap Liquor”
- Drink it in front of the opera house
- Spend the night on a hostel for $19 (less than 120 SEK). If you totally ignore the fact that the room was shit and that there were both prostitutes and homeless people outside the entrance, it is a really nice price.


Day 1: Sydney - Coff’s Harbour
- Meet the people that will be your company (except for the two previously mentioned friends) for the next 11 days. Find that Canadian, American, German and British people are severely overrepresented. Find that Scandinavians are severely underrepresented.
- Take a group photo with the group of total strangers and leave Sydney.
- Consume alcohol.


Day 2: Coff’s Harbour – Byron Bay – Surfer’s Paradise
- Go to Byron Bay - a town where buildings higher than the trees are prohibited and shit like McDonald’s and Subway are banned, and the inhabitants are the most relaxed people ever.
- Stand on the most easterly point of Australia (yawn, tourist shit).
- Consume alcohol.


Day 3: Surfer’s Paradise
- Skydive.
- Go to Dracula-something-something, a theme restaurant/show/theatre/something with surprisingly many jokes about penises.


Day 4: Surfer’s Paradise – Brisbane - Toowoomba
- Go to Brisbane.
- Leave some people behind (some intentionally, some other not as intentionally). Pick up some new ones.
- Visit a retarded Opal shop.
- Take a boat ride around central Brisbane.
- Desperatly try to find a pair of flip flops that wont destroy your feet like the one you bought at Target for $6 (36 SEK).
- Go to a fake farm in the middle of nowhere and do a stupid “typically Australian” dance.
- Consume alcohol.


Day 5: Toowoomba – Fraser Island
- Consume alcohol at a retarded “bling bling”-party. Spend no more than 70c / 4:20 SEK on bling.


Day 6: Fraser Island
- Enjoy Fraser Island from a 4-wheel-drived bus and from an overpriced airplane flight.
- Swim in Lake McKenzie.
- Walk in the rain forrest.
- Consume Alcohol. Watch other people make fools of them selves by singing karaoke.


Day 7: Fraser Island – Rockhampton
- Go to a crocodile farm. Eat crocodile soup and crocodile steak. Hold a crocodile. Be impressed of how dangerous crocodiles are.


Day 8: Rockhampton – Long Island
- Realise that you are on a resort which basically host one wedding every day and that has wallabies walking around between the houses.
- Consume alcohol. Watch other people make fools of them selves by singing karaoke, again.


Day 9: Long Island
- Go to the Great Barrier Reef. Snorkel above it.
- Consume alcohol.


Day 10: Long Island
- Board a sailing boat and spend the day on it. Spend one hour on Whitehaven beach. Completely burn your feet and legs in the sun.
- Consume alcohol. Watch other people make fools of them selves by singing karaoke, again.
- Make a fool of yourself by singing karaoke.


Day 11: Long Island - Hamilton Island
- Leave the rest of the group with two friends, as the group moves on towards Cairns.
- Go to Hamilton Island. Realise that everything is insanely expensive, but have fun anyway, because it really doesn’t get better than this. Enjoy doing absolutely nothing.
- Consume alcohol.


Day 13: Hamilton Island – Ballarat
- Go “home”.


(And of course, spend four billion hours of sitting in a bus and do plenty of splashing around in swimming pools and on every beach you come across.)


...YES, everything is exactly as great as everyone says it is. Opera house included.

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