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Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Soo I’m gonna keep it short. This is what happened:

We left echuca and got a ride to melbourne with angelos brothers truck. He left us in the middle of nowhere and we had to walk into the center. There we checked in into global backpackers, a hostel with a mix of crazy and even crazier people. We stayed in melbourne and I cancelled my plane ticket back home. Instead I made one back to Bangkok in a couple of weeks.

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After Melbourne we did a trip to the great ocean road! It was fun, we met a lot of new mates and our tour guide was hillarious! haha it was santa clause. The people on this trip mixed withe the amazing views of the coast made it an unforgettable experience.

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so yeah to go on, we finished that crusade and took a flight to brisbane and started to travel down the east coast, stopping by in Surfers paradise. If I remember well it was there that they kicked us out of the hotel. I was in badly hangover conditions and wanted to kick off with the hotel guy, but cris kept a cool head and got us safly down to byron bay!

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Byron Bay is awesome. I enjoyed my time there so much! we had an awesome coast, rainforest, good smokes and the best hostel in town. It was probably the best part of OZ for me. Cris took off to some solo trips when I was lying in bed because of the horrible sunburn I got after going surfing the whole day without suncream. Atleast the sunburn burned away the moskito bites 😉

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So yeah after Byron we took a ride down to newcastle and then to sydney. I only had a couple of days left here and wanted to work for some days in construction work there to save some more money for asia. Couldnt in the ende because of my smashed knee, another story 🙂

Thats where I said goodbye to my fellow Travel-Mate Cris, in the same hostel where we startet the trip in Australia. My ways would go back to Asia and further to India, and he was about to end his trip, going back home to Italy.

Was kind of strange to leave him now, after 3 months of traveling. We went thru a lot of shit together, and afterterwards when I was sitting in the plane back to bangkok, I thought wondered who will watch me now when I’m fucking shitfaced again, or who would do it for him 🙂

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Echuca: U love it or u hate it – or both

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

We left Katoomba because we got ourself a job in echuca – Victoria! Due to the crazy public transport prices on this continent we decidet to hitch-hike there. It didnt take long and we found out that the aussies had a crazy fear of that stuff because a killer killed a bunch of poor hitch hikers a few years ago. But we were lucky, we didnt got killed but we found the nicest lady in New south wales and she gave us a ride to the next train station and buyed us a ticket each for 200dollars!

We found our way to echuca after a hard night outside Wagga-wagga train station and started working on Angelos Farm, a few kilometers from echuca! We picked plumps and pears, got almost killed by the crazy amount of flies here and I got an eye infection after 2 days and had to call in sick 🙂 haha lousy workers

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Hard work for just ok-money, but angelo is a nice italian whos parents immigrated to aussiland after WW2.

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We stayed in the coolest hostel in Echuca. It was an awesome athmosphere, we got along great with the other workers. We had chinese, japanese, israelis, germans (of course), english, scottish, irish, estonish and so on. They were all working here, trying to save some money to keep on traveling. The best company for us to celebrate the end of a hard working day with a lot of drinks!

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Landing in SYDNEY

Sunday, June 8th, 2008
So yeah, finally our plane landet on sydney airport and i DIDNT throw up!! So proud.. After the airport security harnassed us for about an hour and took away my flick knife and checked us for drugs, we could finally ... [Continue reading this entry]