Although we are back already for a few months, I'm not that far with my blog yet. Now we're back the new Aussie adventures starts again;
Coming back from Kuala Lumpur (Sept. 4th), we arrived at 1 o'clock AM at Melbourne airport and despite that our good friend Ian had said he would pick us up we didn't want him to drive so early in the morning so we'd booked a hotel near the Airport and that was relaxing. After a good sleep Ian en Ellen picked us up at the hotel at about 11 to drop us at Ian's sister's house for our first 3 weeks house sitting.
Unfortunately we got the flu and had troubles for the whole 3 weeks, ups and downs, feeling better, feeling worse, Crikey what a disaster. Anyhow Fred still managed to make a nice pot with "Snert" (pea soup) which we enjoyed together with family.
We had to leave this first house sitting a few days before the owner got back as we had the second one in Bendigo, you remember the one with the RDA horses? We had left our caravan there during our Holland holiday so it was good to go and see our little house on wheel again.
On our way to Bendigo we did a bit of a detour to visit a friend of the FB group " Dutchies in Melbourne”. During following that group I saw a picture of a familiar face passing and I remembered that I had worked with that man somewhere in the seventies/eighties at my first job in Zutphen. He seemed to be her father and so after some correspondence we decided to meet each other. It was very nice and she surely is the daughter of the man I had worked with. Isn't that a coincidence!
After that visit we also stopped in Bendigo to pick up my new detector I had ordered while we were in The Netherlands. The day after I had a training day so that was very exciting! Didn't found anything though but because we are going to the West again, I wanted a proper detector as digging for 6 weeks like last time without result isn't what we want do we??
Our health was luckily better and we had again a great time with that house sitting, we like the place much as it is so relaxing. The first time we were there in Autumn and it was very dry then and look at it now! What a difference!
Plenty grass for the horses so we didn't had much to do......
We also had a lot rain, so much that I couldn't pick up the poo from the horses....
It was only for one week and again we had to leave before the owners were back but with horses that's not a problem, they will survive one day with nobody around to watch them.
But first we needed to fit new tyres on the caravan......
On the 6 th of October we left and had only 10 days to drive the 3400 k's as we have to be in Perth on the 17 th for our third house sitting!
Passing a paddock full with satellite dishes...
Our first goal was Mildura, you can imagine we had to drive approx. 340 k's a day and already the first day was a bit of a struggle as because of all the rain these last days we faced some major flooding....
Luckily the detour wasn't too long....
We arrived well in Mildura and after leaving the nice spot at the caravan park the next day to face the next 340 k's, we hit the border of South Australia and of course the first quarantine station.
Although we have travelled soooo much already, we always manage to forget about these stations with the result that we have to stop a few k's before and eat all the fruit we have.
Crikey!! Stomach ache after a few hours!
To be continued...
Cheers!
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