Work and travel

The last few days have been a little bit less eventful than the first couple, but still I’ve been keeping quite busy. Yesterday I went on a trip to Bondi Beach, which is probably the most popular beach in entire New South Wales (the province where Sydney lies in, which is about 20 times as big as The Netherlands). Though the weather was not that great there was still a tropical atmosphere and there were quite some people surfing. 

I couldn't let you miss out on a nice beach picture

Also; I’ve finally seriously started job hunting, and succesfully: Tomorrow will be my second day as a mover, carrying  boxes into trucks. Now, this may sound as the most boring, bad work you’d ever want to do, but it’s better than an office job with nice weather and when you’re working with Scots and Irish it’s actually quite a lot of fun. And also, it pays about a 150$ dollars a day which makes the whole trip a little bit more affordable. It may sound like a crazy amount, but things here are quite expensive as well: 

6 bucks for a can of orange juice. This was one of the cheaper ones.

As for travel, I’m planning to fly up to Cairns within two weeks at the most. Cairns is a bit smaller town (a little bigger than Enschede) but it’s much more in the north (warmer climate even, yay!) and there’s a lot to see there. What's pretty cool is that I got tons of info from my roommates who just finished backpacking through Oz and are going home this weekend, so now I know what's really worth visiting and what I could skip if I run out of time. The things I’m looking forward to most are a dive at the Great Barrier Reef and a trip into the jungle, which are ofcourse two things that are unique and nothing alike can be found in entire Europe (and for the Great Barrier Reef, the whole planet). After Cairns the plan is to then slowly travel down back to Sydney since the return flight leaves from there. 

The Great Barrier Reef, seen from the air