Robbie & Jo's World Tour

The last town in W.A.

2010-04-24T09:47:00.002+01:00

Hello my friends. It’s been a while again. I hope this story makes some sense because I’ve been writing this in bits for a couple of weeks now. We left Carnarvon, we’ve gone on a massive roadtrip with a Swedish couple we met in Thailand. First we went up north to Coral Bay and Exmouth to go to the Ningaloo Reef and Cape Range. We did some snorkelling and fishing off the coast there. Our home made fishing rods and banana and cheese bait was unsuccessful however. Ah yeah, forgot to mention, we got like a hundred bananas ripening in the car. We nicked a big bunch on our last day of work on the farm. They were going bad otherwise anyway.

After that we went inland to Karijini National Park. It took us about 3 days getting there, every night we just camped out somewhere next to the road. We’re getting pretty good at making campfires by the way. It’s been great just sleeping under the stars every night. When we eventually got to Karijini we went hiking to see the gorges. It was about 35 degrees every day, so after a sweaty hike into the gorge there were 3 waterfalls and pools which were just amazing. Just have a look at the pictures.

After that we drove to Port Hedland, a stopover for us to get some supplies and not as crazy expensive fuel as in all the outback roadhouses. Not much to report from there, it’s just of big town where like all the iron ore gets shipped that they mine around here.

Then we eventually got to Broome where everything got really wet all a sudden. The first proper storm since we got here, the whole caravan park turned into a frikkin river. A bad time to realise our tent isn’t waterproof… and neither is the boot of the car. Shite! But nothing that a bit of silicone wont fix. Anyways, I’ve spent a evening on the famous Cable Beach trying to improve my harmonica skills… and beer drinking skills.

So after that long roadtrip, spending like a million dollars on fuel, we needed a job again and Kununurra apparently was the place to be. That meant 1044km trough the wildest part of Australia, the Kimberleys. Hooray! That was a awesome drive. Big ass eagles in the middle of the road eating dead kangaroos, cows and horses on the road everywhere. It nearly went all to shit when a car towing a caravan coming from the other direction towards us started skidding all over the road trying to avoid a lizard the was crossing. Things got a bit extra sweaty in the car for a couple of seconds. We’re OK incase you started worrying there! There’s 2 towns that you drive trough when you drive from Broome to Kununurra, Fitzroy Crossing and Halls Creek or Hells Crack as they say here. They are as redneck and inbred as they come I would say. Liquor restrictions got imposed on those towns because they got so bad, the only alcohol you can take away there is light beer. It was pretty fucked up. But we had a good 2 nights camping out in the Kimberleys and that was great. At night Jo spotted a dingo or a big cat of some sort sitting a few feet away from us.

So right, we are in Kununurra now, both of us are working which is good for the old bank account. We’re working on watermelon farms doing some preparation work for when the picking starts in a week. We’re staying in a hostel again, in a bed! Which felt really good after 2 weeks of just sleeping on a thin mat on the ground. We’re going to stay here for a month or 2, there’s a lot of work around. So that’s it for now. I will keep you guys updated on all watermelon related info and stuff.

Take care now, bye bye then

It keeps getting better

2010-03-29T00:02:00.000+01:00

Hello. Greetings from Carnarvon still. We left the hostel last weekend because, well, it sucked. But also because the farmer that Jo and I are working for offered us free (!!!) accommodation on the farm while we’re working for him. Nice! So yeah, we got our own little place again, it’s not the most luxurious shack on the block but it has got character.

Last week we finally finished weeding the plantation. I don’t think we’re going to be up for doing that again, or any work that involves bending down for 8 hours a day. Ah well, we got paid for it I guess. After that, Kim, the farmers wife, came out and told us we could paint their house. Way better job.

On Wednesday, all a sudden, Blair (the farmer) came out and told us they were going on a holiday and wont be back till Sunday. OK. I was thinking, great time to piss off I guess. No, they gave us a key to their house, told us to keep an eye out, feed the dog and cat and gave us huge lamb roast. Somebody doesn’t have any trust issues. We basically had the whole farm for ourselves, we got paid work with no supervision and a frikkin’ lamb roast. I’d say that’s a step up from eating noodles every day.

We’re not sure if there’s going to be any work around next week. If there is we’ll hang around here for a bit, otherwise we’re going to head up a bit more up north, to Exmouth perhaps.

See ya later yeah!

Out with the goats, in with the melons

2010-03-22T08:30:00.001Z

Hi. It’s us again, back with some more news and tales from far far away. We left Kalbarri last Saturday after a month of catching wild goats. It was a bit sad to leave because we had such a great time there but it is time go and make some sweet moolah.

Of course we had no choice but to throw ourselves a goodbye party on our last night on the station, any reason will do. Calum, the boss farmer, entertained us a with stories of ghosts living in the homestead. For dinner we got steaks (born, bled and then bbq-ed on the station) and the best roast potatoes ever. We had also 5 new workers there who didn’t mind having a few (17) beers with us. It was our first late night in a month, so we tried to make the most of it.

And off we went the next morning, drove about 4-5 hours to Shark Bay where we camped out for the night. We got to this free campsite, not listed in the tourist folder, far away from all that is civilisation. We slept with the ocean only a couple of steps away from us, beautiful clear, starry night. Yep life is good.

On Sunday afternoon we arrived in Carnarvon and apparently that’s also the day this town doesn’t work. Nothing open, not even the check-in desk of the hostel. Great. Another night camping out then I guess. So yeah, work, that’s what we come here to do. We drove around to all the farms the next morning trying to find work. We learned that big signs saying “NO WORK, NO ENTRY” means exactly that. But eventually after 7 or 8 farms we found this guy Blair (I thought that name only existed for rich people in a white polo) who did need some workers. Hooray! So we spent last week de-weeding his melon fields, without seeing him again after that first day. We just turn up at 6AM take his ute to the field and work till when we want to. Then we give his wife our hours and we get paid, easy does it. Next week we can even move into their cottage they have on the farm, free. Nice. We’ve also got another job painting their house. Eventually when they don’t have any more work for us I think we’re going to move back to a caravan park. Cheaper and more relaxed then the local hostel. The hostel isn’t bad but management is a bit too stressed.

I think that’s it for now, you can carry on your life again beloved reader. Thank you. To see pictures you can always go to my Flickr page.

There’s is one more thing I want to share with you guys though, it’s a saying from the farmer back on the goat catching station who doesn’t like whiners; “If you want sympathy you can find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.”

Great stuff.

Onya Mate!

2010-03-07T08:48:00.002Z

Time for a bit of an update. I know… It’s been a while. So where to begin? Oh yeah, we are in Australia now! We got to Perth from Singapore on the 5th at like 1AM, we got dropped off in the city centre at 3AM. So we were pretty knackered and wanted to find a bed somewhere. But everywhere wanted to charge us for a whole night and we had to pay for another night at like 10AM. Sod that! So we did what everybody else would do in that situation, we went to a 24h McDonalds! We a had big mac meal at 5 o'clock in the morning and played chess while chatting to the homeless and drunks. Those are the only people who are up on a weekday night. It could’ve been more fun if I wasn’t so tired. But it did save us like 50bucks.

Its been a hectic first week here, just sorting all the paperwork out and trying to get a job. We got a car as well, a cheap but beat up Ford Falcon stationwagon. The important thing is that it runs good and we’re getting a few things to make it a bit cooler. My idea of spray painting flames down the side didn’t go down to well with Jo. We’ll see. But we are leaving Perth on Sunday morning. On Saturday we’re driving to Jo’s cousin Gemma who lives just outside the city here. We met up with her and her husband Didier and her brother Ben last night, we ended up spending the night at their place, having a Kangaroo BBQ feast and goon night. Lovely.

So we left Perth on the 14th of February, drove about 700Km north to a little town called Kalbarri. We rang up a farm there a few days before that needed some help mustering feral goats. Who could say no to that? So up north we drove, as soon as we got out of Perth and the suburbs we got back into the big empty space of Australia. I do think everybody should experience a proper roadtrip in Oz at least once. Very zen indeed. Only the heat might drive you a bit crazy. So all went well and that evening around 6 we got to Kalberri. We camped out that night before going to the farm the next morning. We slept on the roof of the car most of the night (the rest falling off) doing a bit a star-gazing which was pretty brilliant.

We got to the farm the next morning, where everybody was getting ready for the goat mustering. We got handed a walkie talkie, then got dropped in the bush being told we had to start walking east. Right. Do they realize it’s our first time doing this? Where’s east? When do we stop? Let’s just say our first mustering could have gone better. The next few days we were “carting” goats. That means getting them out of the “traps”, the pen they get mustered in. So we have to build a bottleneck with fences and a ramp to back the truck into at every trap. Then the fun begins, chasing the goats down the fences into the bottleneck then up the ramp. That works all really well till one of the big billie goats up front turns around and starts ramming int0 everything. Including myself. So yeah, they can be pretty stubborn. The means used to get them on the truck aren’t always kosher. But it does give you a proper workout.

We’re getting some proper offroad driving experience as well. Most off the traps take about an hour drive to get there and there’s no tarmac in the outback. We got all sorts of extreme 4WD tracks around here, as the property goes from the coast to the rocky hills inland. We usually go in 3 vehicles to the traps, on average about 2 tyres a day get fucked. The truck or the ute get bogged in the sand at least once a day. Towing or changing tyres isn’t nice in 50degree midday heat but shitloads better then being stuck in traffic going to a 9 to 5 job that you hate.

So yeah, we’re doing all sorts of stuff here, my favourite is mustering goats on a quadbike. Every guy wants to be a cowboy I reckon. It’s great fun trying to make them go where you want them. Just make sure you look in front of you occasionally, I've been banged up by trees and rocks a few times already. Great times.

Alright then, I think we’re staying here for another week or so, nothing is planned yet. I did give the owner of the hostel in Innisfail where we picked bananas 2 years ago a ring. He still remembered us and we’ll go there in a few months and get our old jobs back. So again, sorry for the delay in updating this thing, I’ll try to do it more often again. But as a surprise here is our newest video, “Farm Madness”.

See ya later yeah!

Look! Pretty pictures!

2010-01-28T12:51:00.003Z

Alrighty then, just uploaded heaps of pictures on my Flickr webpage. If you're even slighty interested in what we're all up to I recommened you have a look.

Click here for cheap viagra or maybe even our pictures!

The tales of Captain Neal and shots of monkey brain

2010-01-25T11:00:00.001Z

Good morning to the world. We arrived on Ko Lanta yesterday after spending 3 days on Ko Phi Phi. On our 2nd day we went for a sailing trip with captain Neal, a Canadian civil engineer who quit his job 6 years ago and been sailing the world ever since. He got this 9m long sailing yacht and takes up to 10 people with him on tours he does around the island. But this time it was only Jo and me, it was like being on a private yacht. First we did a trip to Monkey Beach where we got to feed the monkeys who are at that beach all day. After that we went to Ko Phi Phi Leh, that’s the island where The Beach was filmed, nice beach but waaaaaaaay too many people there thanks to the movie and Lonely Planet. I did some snorkelling on the back of the island. I got told that if you a banana in your hand under water the fish would come and eat it. I’ve never been around so many fish in my life! They just started swarming me and they ate the whole thing in about 20 seconds. Yeah, that was kind of awesome. Then we did a bit of proper sailing to watch the sunset where I probably didn’t talk for 20 minutes. Jo was delighted I didn’t ruin the moment. That sunset did made my top 3 I reckon. Great. I think I could get into this whole sailing thing, maybe something to think about for the future.

So yeah, on Ko Lanta now, we had a bit of a crazy night. We went to this beach bar where they had the weirdest stuff. We spent the nigh with about 6 people from England who were celebrating their last night travelling. I cant go into it too much but a few of the shots I did were: cobra blood, monkey brain and seasnake. The last one is the worst but in a way the best as well. And after the bottle was empty, they took the snake out and cut it up so that we all could have a bit, how nice of them! And for entertainment we had Bong, the manager, spearing apples off peoples heads and playing the knife game with at first a knife, then an axe and for the big finale a power drill. It was absolutely crazy, but it was a great night out.

Just about to upload this story, we’re sitting on the beach now watching the sunset. Wifi is great isn’t it.

Khao Sok & Koh Phi Phi

2010-01-22T10:28:00.001Z

Sawadii Ka Y’all! We got a bit of jungle action in Khao Sok national park. We decided not to go on one of those organised tours there because they were a bit to pricey compared to the one we did before in Chiang Mai. So we got some bread and jam and headed off into the jungle for the day on our own to explore the waterfalls. It started on a big dirt road that soon became a little overgrown path. We saw heaps of spiders and lizards but no tigers, bears nor the infamous barking deer, maybe for the best i guess. After walking, sweating and eating jam sandwiches all day we got to a great pool to go for a swim. Heaven. Our goal was to see monkeys, of course, and then just on the last bit back we got to see a family of them jumping from tree to tree. Success! In the evening we found this dark little pub next to the river, nobody there but just a couple of Thai guys sitting under a black light. We soon realised that the black light attracted every single bug within like a mile radius, which the Thai guys more than willingly showed us their preferred methods of eating them. I was well impressed, Jo not so much.

We got to Koh Phi Phi yesterday, beautiful island but well expensive for our cheap asses. Eventually we did find a room, but it does cost double then that we usually pay. But hey, compared to Europe it’s still a bargain. Then something random happened when we were for a walk around the island, I got myself a cool freehand bamboo tattoo on my thigh. I was waiting for Jo while looking at some pictures at this shop and 5 minutes later I was in the chair. Hooray for spontaneity! I think it took about 4-5hours to get it done. Weird seeing a guy poking me for a couple of hours, their was a bit of a crowd as well. Definitely more painful then a machine tattoo, but the result is just awesome. Really happy to have it done, for a fraction of the price back home i reckon. After we had to go and celebrate with some buckets of course. We went to this beach bar where there was a flaming skipping rope and fire limbo going on, never seem so many people get burned in my life before. Not a great thing to do when you’re drunk I guess. Then we ran into this guy who looked beaten up with an ice pack on his hand, apparently there’s this bar where if you go into the ring against a Thai kickbox fighter you get a free bucket. I think he lost. What a weird island, I think I’m starting to like it.

We’re going on a sailing trip tomorrow, do some snorkelling, feed monkeys, visit some of the best beaches in the world, you know the usual stuff. See ya later yeah!

Koh Phangan

2010-01-20T04:09:00.001Z

So we’re on the big Raja Ferry back to the mainland now, I guess it’s time then for a little story.
We spent a few nights at the remote north east side of Koh Phangan, at Mai Pen Rai bungalows to be exact. Great place to relax and really nice people there. When we get married next year it might as well be there. So if you want to come over, look the place up. We got to do a fair bit of hiking there, climbing the rocks upstream the river to get to the Than Sadet waterfall, beautiful place, lush jungle around and more importantly not much tourists around. All the bungalows and restaurants on the beach are owned by the same family and not one of then wants to start building 5 star resorts there, you really get a authentic feel of how the whole island must have been 15 years ago.
After a few days we went to the north west side, stayed near Haad Yao, beautiful beach but it feels like you’re on a package holiday when you’re there. To check out some other possible wedding venues around the island we got ourselves a scooter and cruised the whole island. I think I've never been to so many beaches in one day. But it was pretty cool to drive around the island the whole day, and I got the t-shirt tan to prove it! There’s this beach up north called Malibu Beach, it’s like a little white sand island with a couple of trees on, really nice. We got to talk to the owners (we think) of the restaurant on there ito see if it would be possible to have the ceremony there, no problem they said, you want to do it now? Ok. This all seems to be going way to easy. We’ll give them a call in a few weeks.
We just spent 2 nights in Haad Rin on the south east corner of the island. That’s where they have the legendary fullmoon parties, 20000 people raving on a beach. An experience to see, but not for me though. Luckily we got there between the full moons so very quiet, but it does make you see how grubby and tacky it is once the people are removed! While there of course we did do a few buckets on the beach. I love that saying, doing buckets. Found a quiet bungalow away from the town and adopted a cat, we named him Paul. He would lay in the hammock with us, snoozing and eating his tuna. He loved us!
On our way to Surat Thani now on the car ferry, sat at the back like little hobos! Not too sure when we arrive, so we might spent the night there, otherwise we get a cheap bus to Khao Sok national park for some jungle trekking, See ya ‘round yeah….

Koh Tao

2010-01-15T07:48:00.003Z

Hi again, how is everybody feeling? Good, that’s nice to hear. Let’s get started then.

We arrived in Koh Tao about 6 days ago, where i did my open water diving course for about 4 days. It started with a day of orientation, getting some theory lessons and all that crap. But eventually on the 3th day we did some serious diving which was really cool. Koh Tao has apparently some of the best dive sites in the world, but also the most crowded i reckon. 52 diving schools on a little island, crazy. But all that competition does keep the prices down, 9000baht (about 190euro) for a full open water course. I think it would cost 10 times that in Australia or something. I got to see so many awesome fishes and all that jazz, no sharks, even though they were around.

We learnt a heap of skills, like taking your mask off underwater, taking the regulator (the thing in your mouth that allows you to breath) out, even taking the BC (the vest with the tank that you fill up with air) off at 15meters deep. Scary shit man! But all went well, we didn’t have any freak outs in the deep. Eventually we even made a human pyramid and did some kung-fu fighting under water. Very nice.

We went kayaking one day, thinking it wouldn't be too hard to go all the way around the island. Yeah, forget that. As soon as we realised it probably would take us a week or something we paddled into this little bay and just played around over there for a bit before going back.

Not too much drinking going in Koh Tao for us. With all the early diving lessons and all. I didn’t want to get sick in my regulator, even though the instructor said you can do anything in there. I wish I tried. I also had too much dodgy thai food, got a bit of food poisoning one day. But all is well now, no worries. I guess we about 2 memorable drinking nights. We met Nadia and Joakim, a Swedish couple going to Australia as well. A quiet night of playing poker resulted in drinking 4 bottles of SangSom and singing made up songs accompanied by Joakims guitar playing. The morning after we weren't the most popular people in the resort as apparently we kept everybody up all night. Ahwell… they should’ve joined us then.

But actually we are not in Koh Tao anymore. We got to Koh Phangan today at midday. Got a taxi to Than Sadet where we wanted to check out a place called Mai Pen Rai. It’s the only place in Thailand we know we wanted to stay at. It’s on the quiet north east side of the island, far away from all the full moon parties and what not. We got this hut just hanging off the cliffs, even to get to the hut is a proper survival course. But that all adds to the charm of course. We are absolutely loving to view we have a nearly 270 degree view of the sea from our hut and balcony, awesome!

We’ll keep you updated, but there’s a bit of a shortage of electricity and internet on this side of the island as everything is run on generators.

See you around yeah!

Hurray!

2010-01-07T11:14:00.002Z

We finaly got our luggage today, after a 7 hour wait in the guest house...never been so pleased to see a cab driver!
Off to Koh Tao tonight, one of the South Islands, to catch a tan and dive for some treasure! see ya!

Luggage-less in Bangkok

2010-01-06T15:11:00.002Z

We got to Bangkok on Monday morning. But our luggage did not. Yeah, crap. After going back and forth to the airport, filling out paperwork, we got some compensation money from Jet Airways. Ok but we still don’t have our backpacks back. Its been 3 days now and that money wont cover it anymore. So while writing this we’re in a taxi on our way to the airport to rock the boat a bit. See if that’s going to get things moving a bit.

But all is not bad of course, we’re in sunny Thailand and had a great night out already here. We met Nathan, an Australian guy, and 2 Germans (Michael and Michael2) while sitting on Khoason Road having a beer. We had to get Nathan back to his guesthouse after doing some buckets of SangSom. That’s a cocktail of Coke, Red Bull (the Thai recipe) and Thai whisky. Not a bad first night.

We’re heading to Koh Tao tomorrow evening, by bus and boat. Over there we can be a more sportive then just going out and shopping. And Jo can get a bit of beachtime for herself.

On the 4th of February we got our flight to Perth, Australia. We’re flying out of Singapore so we got about a month here to make our way down. We still have quite some island-hopping to do before we start to work again in Australia.

The sunny Thai weather i was talking about has gone a bit to shit now, we’re in a massive downpour now still on our way to the airport. Glad we didn’t take a TukTuk,

See you around yeah!

Mumbai Madness

2010-01-05T11:58:00.002Z

Yes indeed, we finally made it. It is moi, straight from Mumbai International Airport. We’re waiting for our flight to Bangkok in about 2 hours. The last few days have been hectic and I have not been getting my 8 hours sleep a night.

So here we go, after a 8 hour intercontinental flight we jump into the deep again. Mumbai here we go. I knew it was going to be busy, dirty, hot and chaotic, but nothing like this. Fuck me dead! So many people, everywhere. And like 95% of them seem like they’re just hanging out. Everyday, at the same spot. Cars, tuktuks, bikes and buses, driving like they have to prove they have the most road rage in them. And of course, dont forget to honk every 2.3 seconds.

We had a bit of a browse in the neighbourhood of the “gateway of India”, That’s where the attacks were about year ago. Nice place, but very hectic indeed. In the afternoon we took a taxi to Juhu Beach. I thought it was a very touristy place when i read about it before coming, but we were pretty much the only whities in the land. Thousands of Indians on the beach like they were waiting for the rave of the centaury to get started. But I think there was more something of a staring contest going on because we did get some looks. We sat on the beach, relaxing after a hectic day, watching the sun go down in the Arabian Sea. That lasted for about 5 minutes, till all of a sudden Jo is having henna painted on her and we’re surrounded by about 30 people all taking pictures of us with their mobiles. We’re bargaining our way out of this mess, still all in good fun. People handing their baby’s over to have their picture taken and all. It was a very bizarre experience indeed, first day of our travels started well! … we’ve turned into some what of a celebrity couple :)

Some pics from pommieland

2009-12-29T15:25:00.002Z

Brixham coast
Originally uploaded by Robbie Hendrickx

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_eibbor/sets/72157623093129556/

Merry Christmas

2009-12-29T11:31:00.003Z

Hello again, of course a happy Christmas to you all. We finally got going and we are now in the UK visiting Jo’s family and friends. It was a bit of a chore getting here last weekend with Eurostar’s inability to drive trough snow or something.

We supposed to have gotten on the Eurostar on Monday, but no dice. Nothing going or coming all weekend and Monday. So did the website say at least… Before we went to the train station we already booked a bus to get to London the next day since we still had to sort out Jo’s visa over there. We were on a tight schedule the first couple of days. OK, bus booked, no worries again. Drove to the train station to get some sweet compensation money. My beloved Fiesta decided to kick my ass by getting a flat tire on our last ride. Ahwell, having bad luck in the beginning of a trip means good luck for the rest of the journey. For me it does anyways.

So we got to Brussels South Station and all of a sudden they’ve been putting people on buses all day long to London. Great you would think, indeed if we had our luggage with us. But again, keep cool and good things will happen. We got to talk to this awesome Eurostar employee who got us a free hotel room for the night and told us to show up at 6am the next day so she would put us on the first train. Great. So we went and got our luggage, a few more goodbyes at home and couple more beers in the train station bar. Back to Brussels then…

Got up nice and early so we could drag out luggage full of xmas presents trough the melting black snow on our way to the Eurostar. There was just a small queue when we got there, but everybody who had a ticked for Monday (like us) or Tuesday got sent back and couldn't go for another couple of days. No way mate, just cancelled the bus we would’ve got on that day. Then all of a sudden, there she was, waving us over. The nice woman that got us a hotel. “Had a good night in the hotel?'’ she asked, while putting a sticker on our tickets for boarding. Fucking ace, really.

And by the way, we got interviewed by British TV when we came of the first Eurostar running again. “How long have you been delayed Sir?” He asked. Not too long, got free food, free hotel, things went actually really smooth. Thumbs up Eurostar. Not the answer they wanted I reckon.

So eventually got to London, we went over to Jo’s dad and then went to sort her visa out. We went out in London that night, to Winter WonderLand in Hyde Park. Had some shots and drank some mulled wine (gluhwein). Next day off to Bristol to see Sarah and Dan, who are giving us a lift down to Brixham. We didn't go out in Bristol, just chillaxin’ at their house, really good.

Christmas day, lots of presents and lots of food. Boxing Day, lots of bubble and squeek and lots of alcohol. Bubble and squeek are the leftovers of Christmas dinner all fried up together, nice! Seriously! It was another great couple of days here, really good seeing everybody again. Now we got a couple more days to go till New Year, I think we’re dressing up as robbers or something. Ben and Emma are driving us up to London on the 1st. Jo’s got her passport back today so we should be still flying out on the 2nd! Fingers crossed!

Homeless and jobless... Neat-o

2009-12-13T17:29:00.002Z

So I finally got plenty of time to get started writing this thing.

Jo and myself are about 10 days away of leaving Belgium for quite a while. We moved out almost 2 weeks ago after finding a nice family to take over our cool flat. It just took half a day to move, sell, handout or get rid of our excess stuff that isn't worth dragging around on our backs. Hippie mode on. Feels liberated not have to look after all that stuff. Hippie mode off. Nah its all cool man.

We got our awesome friends, Kris and Karen, here to put a temporary roof over our heads. Not that they have a crap roof or something, just a temporary place to stay for us. Duh. Come on keep focused.

They set us up in the huge master bedroom, its not done yet but its pretty nice. I'm not missing the flat at all, I had a great time there but its finally time to move about again. Where’s that sun again?

Jo's got 1 more week of work, I left my job yesterday. Its going to start freezing over here next week, so just in the nick of time I reckon. I left them on good terms, though when I told them I'm going backpacking and got rid of all my stuff I kept getting blank stares usually followed by a 'Are you rich or something?'. I guess I'm not cause I don't own a iphone. Outcast.

So the UK is next in line, we're going to spend Christmas and new year with Jo's family and friends. We put our free eurostar ticket that we got after last delay to good use . Spend a couple of days with Jo's dad in London, then off to Bristol to the mad Sarah and Dan to eventually get to the 'Ham for Christmas. January we'll be chillin' in the good old never failing Thailand. Then when February rolls along we should be putting shrimps on t he baaaaaaarbie mate!

Robbie

Some videos from previous travels...

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And here are some dates...

2009-08-27T10:11:00.003+01:00

The first part of our trip is all booked, on january 2nd we fly from London to Bangkok with a little stopover in Mumbai. Before we go we're spending Chirstmas and new year with the family in the UK. How were getting to Oz is still not too sure, we're probably gonna try and catch a cheap flight from Singapore to go to Perth or Melbourne.
Alrighty then, catch y'all later!

Australia 2007-2008

2009-06-21T20:18:00.002+01:00

Just me, enjoying the sunset
Originally uploaded by Robbie Hendrickx

These are pictures from our first trip to Australia on a working holiday visa. We're going back there on our second one in january 2010, visas just got granted! Hooray!

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2009-06-21T17:49:00.001+01:00

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