This is it. This week is our final week of work. We came, we worked, and now we're just about to get the heck out.
It's been a good time here in Aus, let us recap:
Arrived December 15 2007: acquired furnished apartment
Traveled to NZ March 2008: acquired work and holiday visas
Got jobs in April and May 2008 (Angie and Kane respectively)
Signed 9 month contract and received sponsorship for long-term work visa August 2008
Visit USA November 2008
Visit Tasmania December 2008
And now, May 2009 closes out 10 months of working on our long-term visas and begins our second round of travel adventures.
We will kick off our 4 month vacation with a 3-week road trip up the east coast of Australia. We will drive 3500 kilometers (approx 2500 miles) in 21 days and then fly over to Darwin in the Northern Territory for a short 4-day stint around the famous Kakadu National Park.
After that, in early July, we fly back to Melbourne to take care of any last odds and ends and say goodbye to our awesome Melbourne friends (sad face). On approximately July 9 (happy birthday Kane) we fly to Germany to begin European adventure.
European Adventure summary:
Fly to Munich: hang out with Jon
Fly to Stockholm, witness other blond people for 6 days, return to Munich
Pick up long term rental car in Munich
Road trip with Jon starting Munich: Vienna, Zagreb, Budapest, Krakow
Jon leaves us and we continue to: Prague, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brussels
Then through the ridiculously expensive Chunnel to England, Scotland, Ireland
Back through rip-off Chunnel: Paris, Switzerland, Italy
Then over to Greece sans automobile.
And that, my friends, is how you do it. Will be blogging the whole way through, please do join us.
4 comments:
Holy crapazoli!! That is a lotta driving and traveling. Wow! Will you be staying in hostels or hotels? And you're not kidding about the expensive chunnel...I did a conversion chart and it looks like it costs about $78 to travel through that 50 mile(?) long underwater tunnel....each way! Yikes, that's a helluva toll!! Makes our $4 tolls look like nothing. Well, it should all be fun and interesting. I will have to reserve a couple full days when you get back to view the thousands of pictures you will take. Be super safe and careful and stay in touch! I love you. :)
We will be staying in hostels since it's the cheapest option for us. We found a really nice hostel chain that's clean and nice (for a hostel). And that way we can make some of our own food to save money and eat a little better on the trip (hostels all have kitchens and kitchen equipment), so that's good also. I'm not sure why the Chunnel is so expensive, maybe because it cost a bazillion dollars to build? And I guess it's really long and passes between two countries and it's rare that locals would do it? Not really sure. Not too happy about it though. I would love to show you pictures when we get back - thanks for being interested!!!
Again, you guys are our heroes!
I'm interested.
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