Marcel's site Going down under!

Friday was a quiet day as I said before it would be, with one of the boys from my friend being struck by a stomach bug, we took things slowly. Given my tiredness from the previous days I wasn't really complaining about that!

After a long trip yesterday (and the day before) I'm back in the Land Down Under. After two flights (Amsterdam - Singapore, 12h25m and Singapore - Perth (4h45m) and an incredibly quick pass through customs and immigration (5 minutes tops!!) I'm back!

I was soo out of it last night after that long trip and not having slept more than 4 hours since Tuesday that I crashed really early. By 20:30 I was down and out, and not before I started to talk Dutch to my friends and it not registering with me till after I had repeated it (in Dutch again).

Well, it's hard to believe that it's all over and done with already!! I'd been looking forward to this trip for so long and once it started, it was almost over before I really noticed it. Being on the go for almost four weeks straight, with just the occasional 'slow' day it's only now starting to really sink in what an amazing time I've had Down Under!
 

After a long day of travelling I'm home again, to arrive in a cold and wet Holland. Only 10C when I arrived!!
I was incredibly tired after the trip and the four weeks in general. Until you actually sit still and don't do anything anymore, the tiredness strikes you big time. But it was worth the tiredness I have now without a shadow of a doubt, I've had such an amazing time over the last four weeks.
 

Damn, it's almost time to go home again.. In two days time I'll be on the long plane trip back home and I sooo don't want to go home!

Just a quick update for everyone who reads this..
The Bridge climb was awesome, that gave so many great views and was a lot of fun to do!! And more then 1400 steps can't hurt you now can it?!? ;) After that I went into one of the pilons (only there for show basically) which had a great exhibition on how the bridge was built and some more great views (now with photo opportunities!

Well, I'm in Sydney now.. Not 70kms north of it but smack in the middle of the city..
It didn't quite click with the people I was to stay with, so I've gone away from them.. And even though I was pretty stressed about that at first, I've now come to my senses again and will be starting to enjoy it.
 

On day one we started out at 5:45 in the morning picking people all around Alice and even a few near Uluru. We started to drive there round there 6:45 and we wouldn't arrive near Uluru till 13:30, it's quite a big distance to cover.

What a day..
I've arrived in Alice Springs, but it was cutting it pretty close. Checkin for my luggage closed 30mins before departure time and we got there 5 minutes too lte baically. If I'd not been able to take my bag with me, I'd have been in a lot of trouble. After making a call,  could still get my ag on fortunately..

Yesterday, we went to King's Park in the morning and enjoyed some great views from up there. Unfortunately, the weather wasn't quite cooperating with us and we went back pretty quickly due to the rain which was coming down hard and long (unusually apparently! ;))
During the afternoon, my friend hosted a kid's book ordering party so I got to meet some more of her friends/relatives wchich was nice.