Category Archives: Leaving

Fraser Island Surprise

Fraser Island Wreck

Fraser Island Fun Fraser Island was one of the amazing surprises during the trip. To be honest.. I did not know too much about Australia beforehand. Some of my travel mates already knew Fraser Island and could not wait to see it. “Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world” (East Coast Australia, […]

Preparing my Thailand Trip

The different kind of Thailand preparation The following lines will show you how the average traveler does not get ready for a Thailand trip. Reading at one’s own risk ;).   It was about two weeks before I left for Thailand that I started ‘planning’. Due to my Australian travels I knew that I had most of […]

Rainbow Beach and Maryborough

After an awesome brekkie at the beach of Noosa we kept going north…   Rainbow Beach Rainbow beach was mentioned to have “spectacular multicoloured sand cliffs and white sandy beach” (Lonely Planet (2011): East Coast Australia. p359). It was worth a visit and good to have a walk, but not as stunning as I expected. Mary […]

Top 10: You have been to Australia if …

Australia Top Ten

Living abroad changes you from the inside and the outside Coming home from an adventure, you and people around you will recognize things throughout your day and life that have changed. That is due to the experiences in another country. It is fun but also shocking sometimes. It changes your habits, thoughts and actions. YES, you have […]

Next Stops: Surfers Paradise and Noosa _#2

Camping Ground Noosa

We picked up our camper van and hit the road. Our next big stop, after Brisbane, was Surfers Paradise. I guess the name says it all. Additionally, the place is well-known for its parties. It is definitely a nice place but due to the cold weather we did not even go into the water. Our Camping […]

1850 km – 2 Weeks – 5 Friends – 1 Van _#1

Yes :)! That’s the trip. Five friends traveling around 1850 km from Brisbane to Cairns in a camerpvan. The van was our home and vehicle for two weeks. All of us met during our study abroad at the University of Newcastle in Australia. We traveled before, for example to Melbourne during our Easter break. We started the trip in […]

Australia

Yeah this will be it. Australia. It’s been already two years that I did my study abroad in Australia/Newcastle and I still didn’t do the picture album . Isn’t that crazy? I wanted to do that right after I came back to Germany… well obviously it did not quite work out…. I set the goal for […]

THANKFUL CHALLENGE / Day 14

  Day 14:  Very thankful that I was able to get together with friends whom I know through my study abroad in Australia in 2013. Super happy that we keep in touch and visit each other once in a while. This time we met in Oldenburg. It was great seeing them… Fun times ?!  Cheers  Eva […]

THANKFUL CHALLENGE / Day 13

Day 13: I was super thankful for many reasons that day! …I was thankful to have short trip to see friends… I was thankful to couchsurf which once again was a wonderful and amazing experience… Thankful to get to see new places…. And super happy that a friend was able to meet up in Osnabrück! […]

60 seconds

Today I had a job interview which was quite interesting and fun at the same time. We were around 10 who were applying to become a part of a promotion team. One exercise was to tell a story within one minute. The story could be anything that came up to our mind. I was kinda […]