After our delicious dinner was digested by Christmas Eve, we are on 25 pick up the keys to the house in the morning run, in which we 28 wanted to move. We have received the offer for the New Year holidays a house in North Sydney guard. Includes pool and views across Sydney which we could not turn down:) So we took the ferry and bus to North Curl Curl, where the house stands. Here we have the key and get an explanation of everything important.

Then we have again made their way into the city to us to find a suitable place for New Year's, from which we have a good view of opera and bridge. We have then that is a walk through the botanical garden made, lying on a spit of land before the opera. Through numerous signs we have already pointed out how at 31.12. everything goes, what is allowed and what is not, is open when and so on ... 10 clock in the morning should open the gates to the area where we wanted to go. So we were able to adjust to a Schonmal up early, because places are limited and we knew that many people go there early.

From there we then went back to the hostel, because the next day we wanted to get up early for us into the fray of the "Boxing Day to fall." Evening while cooking, we have then Hansi & Margit (H & M) from Landshut to know. The two are for six months in Australia and now touring with her own car the country. We hope that we will meet again at some point to maybe a bit of distance to travel together:)

On Boxing Day the stores reduce their prices massively, so are thousands of people move to secure the bargain. So many people, so you often had to queue at all in the business of coming clean. Insane, but really interesting:) We bought only a few new things too real German bread! The Queen Victoria Building "There's a German bakery that sold bread and rolls that taste like the original home. The employees are also all was German, so how in the home:) And the bread soooo delicious, a real treat after months of only chatterbox toast. Back at the hostel then we rested from our burning feet first and have the rest of the day nothing done.

Am 27.12. We are then spontaneously went with Steph to the aquarium. There was, as always in the aquarium, fish;) But it was nice because there were two pools, which were tunneled and we were able to sharks, rays and a dugong (also called sea cow) consider from below. After we were through the aquarium through, we're still a walking tour around Darling Harbour. Then we went shopping quickly, because the next day was a holiday and our supplies were running low. In the hostel we cooked and then packed our things together, because at 28.12. we moved;) The next morning it was raining, of course, as we are going on. But the U-Bahn station was not so wide and the footpaths are often also covered in part. With the subway, we went back to our Willi, we have been missing. But he was still there, and without prejudice, above all, that was the most important. With the car we went to "our" new house. Once there, we then have only cleared our things quickly and are immediately going to buy ingredients for baking cookies. Throughout the afternoon we spent so make dough and shape cookies or outdo. Above all, Tina's favorite place took several attempts before they were to some:) But in the end were also delicious and not runny.

Evening are still Katha & Max passed and we have made together casserole. After that, we have not played Wii and are dropped into bed late at night.

The next morning we are still pretty long because we had to wait for a technician from the phone company that was to repair the Internet. He came then to 12 and has meant that the error is on the telephone line in the street, and that in the next 24-48 hours will be repaired. After half an hour he was gone and we still have eaten up something for lunch and then headed into town. There we were far too late, so we have actually done anything, except to go to the post office to ask about our packages. But which were, unfortunately, still not there: (Sadly, we are then driven back home, for somewhere around hinzufahren it was too late.

The penultimate day of the year we were spent exploring the city a little distance. From the ferry landing, it went through the district of The Rocks, Sydney's oldest neighborhood and the place of first European settlement. Then we are under the bridge and along the arc back to even come to the bridge on it, because drüberlaufen we wanted too. After we have accomplished that, we are at the Olympic pool (but from the 1930s, and past Olympic games there were not) in the Luna Park, a great year-round carnival. From there it went back on the ferry to Circular Quay, the main ferry terminal.

Then the last day of the year began very early in the morning by 6 clock, because we had to go in time for us to secure places. Unfortunately, it rained and looked as if it would not stop coming years. After some back and forth, but then we decided to pounce. Well equipped with rain gear and food for the day it went off towards the city. We quickly met with Katha & Max and made brandy-handed, because after the fireworks we were still in the hostel to enjoy a few drinks. However, alcohol was prohibited at the park, so we had to bring the still fast to the hostel. Katha & Max are meanwhile already taken place and when we arrived, had an estimated 7000 people stood in line. Actually we wanted to do with the other two, but we have not found them, and so we have somewhere quite near the front made with it. A bit brash, but after half an hour we were in it;) Then it was to find a good place to spend the day with waiting. As we sat there 11:30, that is still over 12 hours, we had to endure. Now and then it rained a bit, otherwise it was cloudy. That was not at all bad, because when the sun briefly came out, it was suddenly so hot, that was really uncomfortable. So it was good weather. At 9 then the first peak was on the plan: the family fireworks. That was so impressive that we have asked ourselves how the midnight fireworks display for still wants to be better. But until then it had to wait another 3 hours. Somehow wanted to pass the time but not quite, because the more you are waiting for something, the slower the Clock. But then even the last minutes of the old year passed and the fireworks went off. We had set ourselves the earplugs from the MP3 player's ear, because the radio was live and synchronous transfer of the official soundtrack to the fireworks. All this has made even more impressive. After 12 minutes it was the spectacle over and we have put ourselves on the path towards the hostel, where we waited for Jim Beam. Progress was a little difficult, because the last stroke of the fireworks has almost all the people who had gathered in the park set in motion towards the exit and a relentless serpent has blazed her way. But everything went very quiet. We are then about half an hour went to the hostel, because public transportation was desperately overcrowded. Timo has then been drinking with Max a couple of Beam-Cola and shortly before 4:00 we went to bed.

New Year's Day was then a real lazy day for us. We have the whole day just sitting in the booth, we rested and slept in between again, because we were so tired. Then we have picked out pictures and wrote this blog entry here.

If you read we are sure to have dived in the land of dreams;)

So, see you soon, and later still a healthy and happy new year 2010!

Greetings from Sydney,

Timo & Tina

PS: You can find new pictures, of course, in the photo gallery or a video of the fireworks in full length at T & T - TV

Am 22.12. We are finally in the beautiful (and arrived mainly large) Sydney. The picnic area where we spent the night before was still about 70km from the city, so it went off not too late, because we expected a lot of traffic. So we are about to go in the direction of City 10. Once the traffic was dense and the streets were wider play again Tina Navigator and Timo has then brought safely to their destination. We have settled on that day only Steph in her hostel, and were then quickly pick up the mail at our Christmas packages. This has also worked with the discontinuation quite well. A parking lot to the short stop, we had found quickly, but then went off the drama. We have driven countless laps to search for a parking lot where we stand long enough may, at the post office and then run back. After a few rounds, we have decided on a parking garage. Outside was nothing in it what the park is it, so we are reingefahren first, because if the input is high enough, one can think that everything else is just as high. But think! When we have digested the barrier the first shock with the price ($ 10 for first hour), we saw the warning bar with the maximum height: 1,80 m. That could never fit in life! Try it, we had won, because we would have had to speak through the exit in the whole garage. But there was simply nothing that the pipes on the ceiling came closer and closer. Even when we surfboard, gas cylinder and replacement canisters were taken from the roof, we were still too high. So there was only the possibility that we ask the security officers to open ourselves to the entrance gate so that we can go out again. Fortunately, she was so nice and has presented us. So we could then go after many trains turn back to the entrance out. We then searched but still prefer a car park on the street and are fast to the post office because we were so confident that our package had to be there ... If they were unfortunately not: (So we are sad again gone back to the car and have again made from the inner city. Our goal then was a campsite on the Katha & Max (our two companions Fraser Iceland) on Christmas Eve we are. There we are lucky to even get a parking space for one night, because our hostel was only from the 23.12. posted.
On 23 then we have still done the morning a couple of ways and then we went to our hostel. Our Willi now stands alone on a park strip in front of the campsite and we took the train into the city. That's a lot easier, cheaper and less stressful than a car. Unfortunately, we had our clothes as well as back haul in a backpack;) But never mind.
Once we had done everything in the hostel, we are still a bit left to do some sightseeing and have (of course, what else) looked at the famous Harbour Bridge and the much more famous opera. From the water we get the best panoramic view of the opera, so we took a ferry from a port on the other end of the opera and have looked at from all sides. Later we went but still went straight and have just looked at the opera. Here are some facts: It is not white, but beige with a few white spots. In addition, the roofs are "only" beige tiled with white tiles and rows between them. Nevertheless, it is of course an imposing and beautiful building which you have to see if you're already in Sydney.
On Christmas Eve we were strolling with Katha & Max a bit through the city. Apart from countless clothing and jewelry stores, we have also found a German bakery and first bought a delicious brown bread. It was like heaven on earth, we eat for months schlabberigen toast real bread and there is sometimes a blessing. In the evening we went went to a German restaurant for dinner. For Tina, there were rolls and roast pork for Timo. Each with dumplings and red cabbage. Unfortunately, there were no dumplings, but it was always delicious. And the best part: there was even Köstritzer beer! As in the home. Super!

In the coming days we will explore Sydney on and on and will keep you informed.
Until then, Merry Christmas and thanks for your greetings and wishes;)

Timo & Tina

Since our last blog entry we have already seen a lot and experienced ...

Our first stop was the Australia Zoo. After a night at a rest stop near the zoo in the morning, we are not going all too late because we wanted the day at the zoo used properly.

Once in the zoo, we first note the info about the whole show, which studies take place during the day and have chosen us what we want to see everything. First, we looked at the feeding of the giant turtles. Besides, the spectators were the animals themselves, described their way of life and their habitat and explained. After feeding, we have seen something closer to the crocodiles and then are gone by 13 clock in a huge arena to the "Crocosseum. There was held a huge show in the first elephant, then snakes, parrots and many other birds and were presented at the end of a crocodile.

After the show we ate our packed lunch and have watched as most Australian families have bought tons of food and half is always flown in the garbage.

Once again we strolled through the souvenir shop, it was for us to the koalas, which we later were able to handle times:) At the zoo, there were large lawns on which romped many kangaroos, all of whom wanted to be fed. So we have invested a dollar for a bag of food and then on to the kangaroos. This we found in the shade under the trees, because that day was simply too hot to lay in the blazing sun. Then we looked at all manner of animals in the zoo, dingoes, giant lizards, koalas, echidnas, red pandas, tigers and elephants have even fed. Then we took the shuttle back to the zoo entrance. We have seen an otter feeding, which are really some funny and sweet animals ... then it was already afternoon at about 5:00 and we just walked away from the zoo.

For us, it went to a lookout from which we could see the Glass House Mountains and could even make a few shots of lightning.

The next morning we went on to Brisbane. Shortly before Brisbane was three lanes of the highway and always full, we end up in traffic jams were great ... naaa! In Brisbane right was also very much traffic and it took us forever before we found a parking space. In car parks we have not really married into it, because we did not know exactly how high we are with a roof rack and the stuff on it. So the search went one hours determines the good work. In the end we will still put in a parking garage, which was 2.30 m high. That was close, but it fits! There we were then able to free parking for 2 hours. In the time we went to downtown and we have got a rough idea, were in the Touriinfo and have something to eat for lunch. Back at the car we were freiparken then half an hour over the 2 hours and had to pay for as much as $ 5 ... but, well.

The next day, we then explored the city a little closer. In the afternoon we picked up Steph from the bus, put their things into the hostel and then had another round with her in the city center. By 16 December we were in Brisbane, attempts have cookies to bake, but this is due to the non-functioning furnace and because of the wrong flour unfortunately become nothing, have not sewn curtains, not that anyone can look in our "bedroom" and have also yet looked at some in Brisbane itself. We slept always on a small parking lot on the river, from where we had a wonderful view over the city.

On 16 December was our journey then continues. About 9 clock we have picked up Steph from her hostel, packed their belongings in the car and have put ourselves on the way to Surfers Paradise.

Once there we saw a few skyscrapers and not as expected, a small town like Airlie Beach clear. It was quickly found a parking place of the one round we have run out along the beach. Huge waves were there that day and also take the surfer to the full. The beach was wide right and many people were on the beach. We are still a bit of walking through the pedestrian zone, have looked at the skyscrapers and are then continued on at times.

The night we spent at a rest stop on Hwy.

The next morning we had breakfast comfortably, the tent packed up again and have folded our beds and then went on the trip. We wanted to see a great waterfall in the Nightcap National Park. A street of many small nests led there, then stopped and the paved road and it was only a gravel road. Shortly before we arrived at the parking lot from the National Park there was a small depression, where flows in a lot of rain, a small river. In any case, Tina went and after the passage bumped the car. Tina stopped and asked if that was the street, the rumble uttered them. Timo said "nee ... drive on." Then Tina threw a glance in their rearview mirror and saw that the right rear wheel no longer has a normal shape as always. We had a flat tire. Oh great! But the good thing was, we were practically already in the parking lot:) Then we all got out, Timo has rapidly grown the spare wheel and get up and have watched Tina, what you find in the national park everything. When everything was put away on the roof and planted we walked a short way through the (once again) the deepest jungle. After a half mile we came to the "waterfall". In reality it was only a brook, which trickled down from a large rock. But it still looked great, and certainly still great when water is right there.

We are then back to the car, our pasta the night before have not eaten and then we went to Byron Bay. First, we wanted to be a lighthouse standing there at the easternmost point in Australia. Once there, we received a man on the street, wanted the $ 7 for one hour to get parking. After we had the well paid, we had a wonderful view of the coast, the sea and at Byron Bay. When we have made many great photos we went to Byron Bay City and then later for Timo and Tina again shortly into the sea. Afterwards we all enjoyed a cold but still nice shower and then it went off again in search of a night roost.

The next day we had a look at the cities still Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie and Newcastle. In Coffs Harbour we have only located on the beach in Port Macquarie we visited a koala hospital in Newcastle, we are quickly gone, as beautiful as it was not there;)

We then slept two nights in a parking lot about 70 miles from Sydney. Together with our "East German travel group, we then made a day or a trip to a nearby national park. We are the East German travel group "because we, together with Katha & Max (of Fraser Iceland) and two Brandenburg guys who we met in Airlie Beach, along the road were:) With those and a few others, we will probably / hopefully spend New Year's Eve.

Yesterday we have now arrived in Syndey. But for that there is soon a new journal entry;)

Until then, enjoy the pictures and write diligently comments.

Timo & Tina