G’day mates!
After a long silence finally another update on my trip, that is now swiftly drawing to a close… Time has flown by on this large island downunder. When I arrived in Sydney on the 18th of August, Australia proved one of the biggest cultureshocks of my travels so far. Everything was so clean, people were dressed so smart, everyone spoke English. Fixed prices, supermarkets, no bargaining. Incredible. How much one gets used to the Asian way of life without realising it!
Chris, an Ozzie chimpfriend from Uganda, was my host for the first ten days and a fantastic one at that. Showed me around Sydney and introduced me to his friends and family and made me feel very welcome. Took care of me and put up with me shouting things like ‘look, there’s some real Australians there!’ Talya, my travel mate from Sumatra, was in Sydney as well and we met up as soon as we could and started to make travel plans to see Oz. Which was pretty hard, it’s vast and there are about a million things to choose from.
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