We're set up!

Today we picked our spaceships camper, which was very time consuming: the office was somewhere outside the center, 30 min by train to be exact. From the train station we had to walk about 2 - 3 km and this was the tiring part. It's not far if you're not carrying 15 kg. Fortunately half way a car stopped and a friendly lady asked us "are you going to kea campers?", they dropped us at the door and said "welcome to Australia". Yes, that was the welcome we're needing :)
Next thing after all the paper work was to buy some groceries. And guess what, there was an aldi just around the corner.  Perfect!
Finally we drove to the Hunter valley and for the first time we're going to sleep here. There's enough space, but I think tomorrow we need to arrange our bags in a different way.

We finally arrived!

After 36hours, we're finally in sydney

Todo lo bueno se hace esperar

Después de estar esperando más de 3 horas dentro del avión parece q llega nuestro turno. En 30 minutos vienen a descongelarnos las alas y después podemos despegar.... aún así el vuelo de conexión lo hemos perdido y no se cuantas horas tendremos que esperar, el siguiente vuelo es 11h después :(

Almost ready

All bookings we have to make before leaving are done: we have accommodation for the two first and last nights in Sydney, a ticket from Cairns to Melbourne and our campervan for the three weeks in the East Cost. Well, it's a backpacker camper, something in between a car and a camper. The only thing missing is a toilet, otherwise it has a doubel bed, cooker, fridge, dvd and a shower!!
The only thing not ready is me. I'm still not fit, with pain in the throat and ears. So not really in shape for 22 hours of airplane. Tomorrow I'll go to the doctor again, let's see if I get more antibiotics.

The most difficult part of each trip

is to decide what to see and what to leave out. So far Australia has been the hardest, but we have a route: we'll fly to Sydney, from there rent a campervan and head to Cairns (about 3000km), then fly to Melbourne and drive back to Sydney (another 1000km). It sounds so easy, but it took us a couple of weeks to decide.

First, we left out Uluru, the big red stone in the middle of nowhere. It's so far and so hard to get there, and no one was really enthusiastic about it. Then choose to fly to Adelaide, Melbourne or Tasmania, at the end Melbourne won. In the map it doesn't seem far away, but actually it is. Well, we'll have plenty of things for the next time :)