Photo: view of the creek in the neighbourhood, the buildings are at the coastline.
Photo: ocean view from the terrace.Okay, today I am flying to Brisbane. It was not a big deal. Flight time was only 1 hour to move up some 1000 km north. The weather is again sunny in Sydney but completely grey overcast in Redcliffe, Brisbane.
The atmosphere is very much tropical here in Brisbane, it is more humid and the air is more heavy. As I am quite far out of the city centre (see google earth, Redcliffe is a peninsula), it is good that Torsten my host came to pick me up from the airport.
We had about one hour drive to there place because of the traffic jam of the construction of a new bridge. In Brisbane there is construction all over the place and it is like the fastest growing area in AU. The appartment were I am staying is very lovely. They have a penthouse with a complete roof terrace with ocean view.
Torsten and Manuel give me a small guided tour in the Redcliffe beach district and then we head home to have a real Aussie BBQ (for free, jippie !) Everybody is so nice overhere ! .... My hosts are in fact two German guys who emigrated overhere some years ago without visas: that's an adventure ! Anyway they say that it is very easy to find a job if you are skilled and also the renting is very cheap and easy.
The only drawback of the Aussies is that they dont really live like Europeans. I mean they do not go out a lot to restaurants or terraces or even the beaches... It is very strange to see how many fancy shops and restos there are in Brisbane and Sydney and actually not a lot of people are using them ....strange strange.
The atmosphere is very much tropical here in Brisbane, it is more humid and the air is more heavy. As I am quite far out of the city centre (see google earth, Redcliffe is a peninsula), it is good that Torsten my host came to pick me up from the airport.
We had about one hour drive to there place because of the traffic jam of the construction of a new bridge. In Brisbane there is construction all over the place and it is like the fastest growing area in AU. The appartment were I am staying is very lovely. They have a penthouse with a complete roof terrace with ocean view.
Torsten and Manuel give me a small guided tour in the Redcliffe beach district and then we head home to have a real Aussie BBQ (for free, jippie !) Everybody is so nice overhere ! .... My hosts are in fact two German guys who emigrated overhere some years ago without visas: that's an adventure ! Anyway they say that it is very easy to find a job if you are skilled and also the renting is very cheap and easy.
The only drawback of the Aussies is that they dont really live like Europeans. I mean they do not go out a lot to restaurants or terraces or even the beaches... It is very strange to see how many fancy shops and restos there are in Brisbane and Sydney and actually not a lot of people are using them ....strange strange.
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helaba ausie
leuk nog iets te horen van je we waren hier al in volle spanning aant wachten op de volgende avonturen. Ik denk dat zelfs fabienne. ook in het stadje Brisbane verblijft voor enkele dagen. Mss zien jullie elkaar wel
zonnige groeten vanuit het frisse Belgie Michiel x
rare jongens, die aussies ..
kijk maar uit voor twee duitsers die zonder het te vragen een ander land binnengevallen zijn, en je dan nog proberen te indoctrineren met gratis autoritjes en BBQ's ;-)
grtjs Eg
ik volg de commentaar van Eg hierboven volledig !!! ;-)
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