Koalas, emus and kangaroos @ Blackbutt. Hey, can you tell I’m in Australia?
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Author: Linnea
Sweden, we’ve found our new home!
Sweden, we’ve found our new home!
The last couple of days we’ve been looking at houses in Newcastle. We booked three showings in advance before we left Sweden. One each on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, so today it’s Thursday and the first day we haven’t been occupied looking at houses. But we decided today that we’re going for the first house that we saw on Monday.
As you can see in the pictures above it’s quite recently renovated, and we’ll have our own bathroom and AC. We’re going to be in a house with 15 other rooms like ours, hopefully we’re going to like it there!
We filled in all the paperwork this afternoon (as shown below) and brought it to the agency’s office in town, our excellent Airbnb host drove us there to hand in the papers. Our application got approved the same afternoon and we’re meeting the real estate agent tomorrow at 10 am to sign the lease. The plan is that we move our stuff there on Sunday, cause on Monday orientation week starts at the University of Newcastle and we’re going on a trip to Port Stephens the entire first day 🙂
Anyway, a lot going on at the moment. We’re really enjoying our first days in Australia. We’ve already tried several typical Australian things that have been on our bucket list. Among others we’ve eaten Vegemite, visited some kangaroos, wombats and koalas and watched a genuine rugby game where New South Wales won! Going to post some pictures of that as well 😉
Feels really good to have the living arrangements almost settled! That was our main focus going into this week. But we’ve gotten so much more out of our first week already. And the weekend isn’t even here yet.
Best wishes / Linnea
A collage of the airplane food
A collage of the airplane food going from Stockholm to Sydney. We got so much food! I’m happy we’ve already booked the ticket back in December again with Thai Airways 🙂
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The time has come. Let’s go to Australia!!
The time has come. Let’s go to Australia!!
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Made rhubarb and raspberry pie for my farewell dinner with the family
Made rhubarb and raspberry pie for my farewell dinner with the family
Just woke up from a bad dream
Just woke up from a bad dream I was having. I dreamed that I hadn’t packed and that I was desperately stressed needing to go somewhere. The “resfeber” is starting to get to me.
At least I feel better waking up to see my room in its current state. If anything, I have my stuff packed!
Only one more day until the flight to Australia!
/ Linnea
Driving back and forth to Örebro
Driving back and forth to Örebro with all of our stuff. Gustav is handling it like a champ 😀
Two days until the flight to Australia!
What’s up with the eurotrip?
I thought that you might wonder why we all of a sudden went on a eurotrip. After all this blog is supposed to be about Australia, right?
Well, we didn’t want to miss the opportunity when we finally had some vacation to visit some of my European buddies from when I lived in Zurich three years ago. So we decided to spend one of the holiday weeks we got before going to Australia going around Germany and Switzerland. That was now last week and time really flew by. I wanted to make this post explaining a bit earlier but at the same time we had a packed schedule and I didn’t want to spend the only time off at the computer.
First we made it to Stockholm Arlanda on June 26th (just after Midsummer) and stayed at a hotel because our flight on the 27th was early in the morning and we didn’t feel like staying up the entire night going by bus to Arlanda. I’m really happy we made that decision, because the travelling went so much smoother when we weren’t super tired. The hotel was very nice too, with it’s own pool and huge breakfast buffé in the morning.
I went with the most unhealthy breakfast possible. But it tasted sooo good. Totally worth it.
I realize now we have much more photos from the eurotrip to post. If you don’t mind the blog being about something else a part from Australia I want to get around writing some more about our experiences and not just show the Instagram posts. But at this moment we’re back in Linköping Sweden and I really need to finish up packing my apartment today. Seriously. It’s only three more days until we fly to Australia!
Nothing beats Züri Fäscht when it comes to fireworks
Nothing beats Züri Fäscht when it comes to fireworks. Two days, two firework shows. 1 million Swiss franc each.
Thanks Rosa
Thanks Rosa for these past couple of days showing us around Cologne, it’s been wonderful! Even when we will live on different sides of the planet, you will always be my neighbour (aka Nachbarin)