46 DAYS OF TRAVELLING
I started the adventure renting a car for 18th days of road trip from Brisbane to Cairns, than I stayed in Cairns a bit worked there and travelling around till Cape Tribulation. Than I flight to Darwin and with the bus I went to Alice spring where I’ve rented a car till Ayers Rock and from there I flew to Sydney.
I decided to visit all Queensland which I think is one of the best part of Australia, at the beginning I thought to go around asking lift making tour and that’s it but then I understand that is impossible because a lot of things you can’t do anymore due to the virus as well so I decided to rent a car for the first time of my life I choose the cheapest company East Coast rental and one of the most famous. So I rent it for 18 days which I hope that’s the best time to do all the things that I wanna do, and sleep in the car in each rest area that I will found thanks to the CamperMate app. So that was the beginning planning to arrived in Cairns and I booked everything step by step and also the rest of the trip.
DAY 1 – 26.10.2020
( Night at Golden Beach on the road next to the ocean )
( Starfish in Moreton Island )
Woke up at 7 am I pack everything and than I called an Uber because I was full of blankets and all those things that I couldn’t even move barely. The Uber drop me off at the car rental East Coast, I was very nervous because I never rented a car before in my life finally at 25 yo it was the time to do it, but plus I wasn’t driving since Italy, I’ve tried here in Australia but just one that I did Bundy to Munduberra and few other time around munduberra which it was easy. The woman that she works at the car rental press me to put an insurance so while I was waiting the car I’ve got afraid and I decided to make a full insurance. It cost a lot almost the same amount of the rental but I felt more safe at that moment so everything covered. Than I went to the port at Tangalooma Island just near the Brisbane airport, I bought the ticket, I parked the car and at 10 am I get on the board. After more than an hour I arrived at the island very amazing I didn’t expect that it was already around 12 pm and at 4 pm or before the boat will leave so I didn’t have that much time to stayed there or do tours so I just started walk in the beach in the direction of the wrecks it was amazing I totally felt in love with the island. I had a quick lunch and than at 3:30 pm I went back on the boat. Such an amazing island! Arrived at the harbour just before the sunset I took the car and I started drive to north in Sunshine Coast direction, the first caravan park was at Golden Beach but I couldn’t make it and I didn’t wanna spend money so I just parked on the street next to the beach we’re there were other van, I went to the back seat of the car and I felt asleep immediately because I was very tired from the day.
DAY 2 – Tuesday 27.10.2020
( Night at: Emundi Showgrounds, Emundi )
( Boutique in Montville, Art Gallery street )
I woke up around 7 am in Golden beach unfortunately was raining or at least very very cloudy and the sea looks like really bad actually so I went to the supermarket first at Coles which was already open and than I decided to visit the mountains so I start to drive in land in Maleny the road was a bit narro actually it was me that I didn’t used to drive anymore so it was barely complicated actually and with the rain just more, once I arrive in Maleny I stopped at the lockout but due to the fog I couldn’t see anything so I went to walk at the Obi Obi board walk which it was nice and than I went to the Gardners Falls and than started to rain a lot so I drove to Montville, the road was amazing but for the fog again I couldn’t see anything unfortunately, one I arrived I parked there and I took a walk around the Art Gallery street which it was beautiful just a bit complicated because was raining a lot. I stopped at the Poet Cafe for a hot tea and scones a and take a break from the rain and after I started to drive till Emundi Showgrounds and I arrived there around sunset time so I could check in have a dinner and than sleep.
DAY 3 – Wednesday 28.10.2020
( Night at: Eleonora’s house in Noosa Ville )
( Noosa National Park )
I woke up around 8 am barely late actually but I was tired and fortunately on Wednesday at Emundi there are the Hippy markets so I decided to go there to see how’s it and I had a breakfast there with a Nutella Strawberry Crêpes, it was fabulous. Than I drove to Noosa and first I stopped at the lookout very nice but maybe better during the sunset. Than i parked the car and I went to the main beach to chill swim and take few photos. Around 2 pm I met Eleonora my friend from the farm work we had the lunch together at Raw + Rice and we eat it next to the ocean, than she went at Yoga and I went to see the sunset at Split which I couldn’t see it because was too cloudy, than I went at Eleonora’s house at Munna Beach Apartments I pick up her and we went at Woolworths to buy something for the dinner and than we come back home she cooked for me and we were drinking wine talking, it was a really lovely nice and it was nice see her again, than we went to sleep finally in a bed, except that the put the alarm at 5:45 am to go to Yoga.
DAY 4 – Thursday 29.10.2020
( Night at: M.V. Sarawalk West Campground )
( Sunset at Rainbow beach Skipoint )
I woke up early in the morning and while Eleonora was at Yoga I went to relax in the swimming pool of her building very nice and relaxing. After when she come back we went to Noosa Ville she went at work and I went to walk in the National Park, I’ve already done this walk the previous time that I’ve been in Noosa but I wanted to do it again, I walk till the Fairy Pool and than even more till the end almost where you can see the other beach on the right side of the walk and at this stop in this view point I saw a bunch of dolphins swimming together it was definitely amazing. Than I walk back l, I went to the car I made the sandwich and I meet Eleonora at the bench next to the ocean to have a lunch together. At 2 pm we said good bye and I walk a bit around Noosa for the last time before leaving, because at 5 pm I have to be in Rainbow beach at the Freedom hostel for the meeting of the tour. I drove for two hours almost because the the road near rainbow beach wasn’t the best but I made it on time and after the meeting I went to search a place to sleep at the Skipoint in Rainbow beach, before I saw the sunset as in the photo it was amazing and than I slept in a camping under government without pay.
DAY 5 – Friday 30.10.2020
( Night at: Cathedral on Fraser, Fraser Island )
( Me driving on the beach next to the ocean )
Depart Rainbow Beach at 7 am, after a briefing, we depart Freedom Hostel and head to Fraser Island – the world’s largest sand island! We went to the end of the land and from there we took a ferry to arrived in Fraser Island. Get straight into it with a 1 hour 4×4 drive along 75 Mile beach, after we stopped for a lunch in a pic-nic area and then we drove to one of the most picturesque locations on Fraser – the famous Lake McKenzie. It was amazing I like it a lot. After we stopped at the Maheno Shipwreck for a photo and than we went to the camping for the dinner and sleep while everyone was really tired.
DAY 6 – Saturday 31.10.2020
( Night at: Cathedral on Fraser, Fraser Island )
( My team during those three days in Fraser Island, 7 girls and one guy )
After a quick breakfast at 8 am we start the busiest day on Fraser Island! We head to Indian Head, the highest point of Fraser Island offering amazing views, followed by the Champagne Pools very incredible place, than we come back in the camping for the lunch and after we went to visit Lake Wabby where you can stride through the dunes to a tropical paradise! Then return back to camp in the afternoon for dinner and drinks celebrating Halloween all together drinking and playing games and ending the party on the beach dancing with the music.
DAY 7 – Sunday 01.11.2020
( Night at: Flash Packers Hostel, Harvey Bay )
( Rainbow stairs in Rainbow Beach )
We woke up early at 8 am had a breakfast and pack everything to leave the camping on the way to the mainland we visit the crystal clear Eli creek, where you can have a swim, actually we did it three times! Return to Rainbow Beach stop and enjoying a tasty lunch before we take one last drive down the beach, and board the barge back to the mainland. We arrived back at the Freedom Hostel around 3 pm I said goodbye to everyone and I went to the beach to check rainbow beach and the rainbow stairs and I drove to Harvey Bay passing by Maryborough and stopping few minutes for the sunset and than I arrived in Harvey Bay I couldn’t find any Camping open at that time so I decided to staying in a Hostel the cheapest one. Once I did the check in I started to check for a While watching your for the day after but unfortunately I couldn’t find anything, so basically or only two days I missed the tour because they stop on the 31/10 and after isn’t a season anymore, so sadly I went to sleep in a dorm only for myself.
DAY 8 – Monday 02.11.2020
( Night at: YHA 1770, Agnes Water )
( Wave lookout, Town of 1770 )
I woke up at 7 am I did the breakfast in the hostel and the check out and I went to the Pier of Harvey Bay for a walk the weather wasn’t the best, very cloudy but anyway I took few photos around and than I left continuing drive up to north. I skipped Bundaberg because I’ve already been there few times while I was doing the farm work so I drove straight to Agnes Water which I arrived there around 3 pm I did the lunch and I check the main beach and I walked a bit around, and for the sunset I decided to go at the 1770 lookout before I stopped at the Cook monument and than I went to the lookout where I did the different walks around till the beach, unfortunately the sunset wasn’t the best because still was a bit cloudy, than I tough to go to sleep in the main car park, but I notice that there was a guy that maybe was following me so I booked a night a the Banana Backpacker Hostel I did the check in but the guy with the gold Mercedes followed me so I decided to go at the YHA 1770 a bit out of Agnes Water where I could hide the car and get a dorm by myself and lock myself inside and I report all this to the police than I went to sleep.
DAY 9 – Tuesday 03.11.2020
( Night at: Parkhurst Motel and Vanpark, Rockhampton )
( Paperbark Forest Broadwalk, Agnes Water )
I woke up early in the morning I went to the beach next to the hostel and than I did the breakfast at the hostel and then I went at the Paperbark Forest Broadwalk after I started to drive up till Gladstone where I stopped at The Dock for the lunch where I eat for my first time a Red Emperor grilled. It was a really big day because after Gladstone I stopped in Rockhampton while I was driving all day basically I visited the botanical garden which they aren’t the best but at least it was a break from driving and after I drove till Yeppoon to see the sunset and find a place where I could sleep but I couldn’t find it so I went back to Rockhampton in the high way I found a caravan park where I could stayed for the night.
DAY 10 – Wednesday 04.11.2020
( Night at: Cape Hillsborough car park )
( Notch Point Campground, Ilbilbie )
Woke up at 7 am I did the shower in the caravan park and I started to drive again. Today is the day that I have to drive more than usual almost 400 km it will be really exhaustive! In the middle from Rockhampton and Mackay I stopped at the Marlborough just for the petrol and something to eat and than I keep drove till the main break at Ilbilbie Notch Point Campground which it was really amazing very hot and the road not the best for my Hyundai Accent but I did it. Later I drove till Mackay where I stopped at the supermarket to buy a bit of food and than I went to the Lagoon which it wasn’t that beautiful and after I keep drive till Cape Hillsborough. I stopped at the main car park and I went to the beach for the sunset and the dinner it was amazing. And for the night I stayed in the car park because the camping next to it was very expensive and I couldn’t afforded it.
DAY 11 – Thursday 05.11.2020
( Night at: OzSail Avatar Boat )
( Sunset on the katamaran Avatar )
I woke up at 4:30 am in the car park of the Cape Hillsborough National Park and I went to the beach to see the sunrise and the cangaroo on the beach it was amazing, definitely an unforgettable experience but very fake because the guys of the camping the feed the cangaroo so that’s way they are on the beach at the su rise. After I started to drive to Airlie Beach because I booked a tour at 2 pm, but while I was driving the tour company called me that my tour was cancelled and they proposed me an other tour which it was leaving at 11 am the Avatar Boat Tour. For me it was definitely okay because at the 9:30 am I was already in Arlie beach at the Coral car park, I parked the car I organise everything and at 11 am I was ready to sail. The trimaran was amazing very big big boat and we were around 20 people only really well mixed and everyone nice, we started with the lunch immediately which it was very good and after that we did the first snorkeling, it was incredible, I never saw something like that before in my life. Than we come back on the boat for a snack after the swim and than we enjoyed the sunset that was amazing from the boat and than we had a dinner. Later on I went to sleep because I was very tired from the big and excited day.
DAY 12 – Friday 06.11.2020
( Night at: OzSail Avatar Boat )
( Snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef )
We woke up at 5 am to see the sunrise that we couldn’t see it actually because was raising in the opposite side but still was really nice, than we had a breakfast all together and the first snorkeling which it was really nice full of fish I like it a lot but the ocean was very wavy. The second snorkeling we did it just few minutes after in an other spot and that one probably was the best one we stayed there a lot and we could see all the coral. Tha we had wraps for lunch on the boat all together it was really nice and after we went to Whiteheaven beach which is the best spot at the Whitsundays National Park, we went there on the boat and than we walk till the lookout where u can see Whitehaven beach amazing like in all the photos or postcard I couldn’t believe it. In total we sent there around four hours first hiking and than we went down to the beach it was really beautiful and we could bath and staying in the water, the water was perfect just very dangerous for sharks and outside on the beach a bit too windy if not it could be perfect, but anyway it was really beautiful I didn’t expect that from Australia. Than we went back on the boat for a snack chill see the sunset and having a dinner all together, and than sleep very early.
DAY 13 – Saturday 07.11.2020
( Night at: Mgnums accomodation with Daiana )
( Whitehaven beach view from the plane )
I woke up at 5:30 am to see the sunrise again, from the boat in the morning is amazing because is totally peaceful and silent those three days were incredible. After I did the breakfast and we stayed on the boat enjoying the last morning on it. We arrived at the port at 9 am. After we went at Nomads were I could park the car and have a lunch at McDonald’s and I did a little walk around Airlie Beach and than at 2 pm I had the scenic flight on the Great Barrier Reef with GSL Whitsundays, the shuttle bring me to the Whitsundays Airport were a little plane was departing just 10 people and I was co-pilot, I was definitely afraid never been more afraid than that but I did it and the pilot was very nice. Regarding the view never saw something like this before absolutely amazing. After I went to Nomads Hostel at the Car park and I change and get ready for the evening, first I meet Daiana at 6 pm, it was so nice see her again we walk a bit in the main beach in Arlie Beach during the sunset run she went at work and I went to meet Federico at the Magnum Accomodation and we drink few beers with Amey, Lars, Judith, Aerton and Juli and when Daiana finished to work we went to have a dinner together at KC’s Bar & Grill it was a really lovely night all together eating drink and having fun and than I slept with Daiana in her bedroom at the Hostel that she was sharing with Juli.
DAY 14 – Sunday 08.11.2020
( Night at : Bowen Holiday Park in the camping of Federico )
( Me Laura, Daiana and Federico in Airlie Beach )
In the morning Daiana she woke up at 6 am I tried to sleep a bit more till 8 am and than I woke up, I went to the car that I parked it at the Nomads Hostel with Federico and we had a breakfast there at the Nomad Hostel while it was raining a lot than we went to pickup Laura at the port the she was coming from Hamilton Island where she work and live. We did a brunch together with Daiana as well that finished to work, at Sidewalk Cafe Restaurant and Bar. After lunch we walk and chat around Airlie Beach than Daiana has to go to work and Laura she went back in Island with the Ferry and I stayed with Fede talking and waiting till 6 pm to say goodbye to Amey, Lars and Juli and than we drove both with out car till Bowen where fist we stopped at the caravan park of Valentina and Arianna so I could meet them again that was amazing unfortunately just for few minutes because both we were tired and I went with Fede in his caravan park called Bowen Holiday Park where he slept in his tend and I slept in the car.
DAY 15 – Monday 09.11.2020
( Night at: Base Backpacker Magnetic Island )
( My room at Base Backpackers )
I woke up at 5:30 am at the caravan park, I get ready I did a quick breakfast because I had to leave the camping early in the morning and then I went to visit Bowen as quick as I could. I went at the Horseshoe Bay Beach, Rotary Lookout and a wick stop in rose bay. On the way to Magnetic Island I stopped at Ayr Plantation Park for a second breakfast then at 11 am I arrived in Townsville I went to buy the ticket for the ferry that the first one was at 12:50 am and than I went to the center to eat in a park and than I went to take the boat which it was only 30 minutes to Magnetic Island.Once I get there I went to eat something at SOS Stuffed on Seafood and than I went all around to ask for rent a car and than I called the Road Runner Scooter Hire which they pick me up at harbour and I rented a 4×4 Suzuki for one day and half for only 100$ which it was great. Than I did the check in at Base Backpackers and I went to Picnic Bay first and after I went to West Point to see the sunset which it was impossible because wasn’t sunny unfortunately. So I come back in the hostel where I chill a bit with one drink included in the rent and then I went to sleep.
DAY 16 – Tuesday 10.11.2020
( Night at: Mystic Sands Golf & Country Club )
( Baby Koala in Magnetic Island )
I woke up at 5 am and I went to see the sunrise at Arthur Bay which it was very nice and than I went to the supermarket and I went back to the Hostel to do the breakfast take few photos and pack everything for the check out. Once I did the check out I decided to go up in the opposite side of the island to explore it so I went to The Forts which I did the walk there it was amazing I could have seen a mum and puppy Koala wild, it was amazing I almost got crazy for the little one and I took hunter photos of them. After I walk till the Fort and once I was the I realise that I’ve lost my bracelet so I got crazy and I started to cry I went to the car I drove till the West Point while I was calling the hostel because I had no idea where I could have lost it. At the West Point there was nothing so I went back to the hostel and fortunately was at the reception I couldn’t believe that someone bring it there without still it, I was crying for the happiness. And then I went back stopping at Geoffrey Bay to see the Rock Wallaby’s later I did a long walk to Balding Bay and Radical bay so I walked all afternoon basically and it was amazing and before give back the car I stopped at the Koala Village to see the Rainbow Lorikeet. Than the rental company bring me to the Ferry which was departing at 5 pm, than I stopped around Townsville during the sunset to take few photos and I dove up to find a place to sleep at Mystic Sands Golf & Country Club in the middle of nowhere just in the direction of Cairns.
DAY 17 – Wednesday 11.11.2020
( Night at: Mission Beach YHA )
( Me at the Wallaman Falls )
I woke up at 7:30 am I did the breakfast and I started to drive again first I stepped in Ingham at the supermarket that’s the only thing that there is there actually and then I keep drive to the Wallaman Fall direction it was an amazing drive I found wild cow long the street it was hilarious and than when I arrived there from the lookout the fall is mazing. I decided to do the walk down to the fall which is pretty hard runs is around 5 km but I made it and was definitely worth it, the water was freezing but it was a nice experience and very quiet when I arrived down I was the only one there very scary but it was something unforgettable. After I went back to car and I had lunch there with two sandwiches and I continue to drive later, I stopped few times to buy/take a watermelon on the road where the farmer they leave them to sell it. I arrive in mission beach around 5:30 pm for the sunset basically but first I did the checkin at the Hostel Mission beach YHA and then I went to the beach and later I called my mum a bit and then I went to sleep.
DAY 18 – Thursday 12.11.2020
( Night at: Gilligan’s, Cairns )
( Mission Beach at the sunrise )
I woke up around 4:30 am to watch the sun rise, so I took the car and I went in the closet nice beach to see the sunrise, than I come back to the Yha Mission beach hostel to do the check out, and search where is the famous spot with the palm, once I found it I went there to do the breakfast but the weather turn on not the beast so I left on Paronella Park direction which it was a short drive, the park is really nice but nothing too special actually, and after a bit started to rain a lot a lot so I basically run away on the car and I started to drive again in the direction of Millaa Millaa waterfall which it was really really nice I like it so much, I stoped there for a lunch and enjoy, on the way to Josephine falls I had to go back in the same route which it was very very beautiful with all the cows and farms in the hills looked likes UK, and I stoped in few places to take photos and the see a tea plantation as well. After I arrived at Josephine waterfall, the weather wasn’t the best for all the day unfortunately but still those probably were my favourite falls, very nice and wild. Around 5 pm I started to drive again to Cairns which it wasn’t that many km actually so I arrived in Cairns before it was dark, I did the check in at Gilligan’s I moved all my stuff in the room and I went to sleep very early.
DAY 19 – Friday 13.11.20
( Night at: Gilligan’s, Cairns)
I woke up pretty early, around 6:30 am and I went to give back the car to the East Coast company, thank I had a breakfast and McDonald’s and I went back to sleep. I slept all day basically I was very tired and than I get ready to go to work at 8 pm, but unfortunately the boss told that I couldn’t started immediately the first day that I could start was Sunday so I went back home a bit depressed, I went down stairs at Gilligan that isn’t only a hostel is also a club but I didn’t like it so I come back to sleep.
DAY 20 – Saturday 14.11.20
( Night at: Gilligan’s, Cairns )
( Rusty’s Markets, Cairns )
I woke up a bit early I did the breakfast I went to the markets and than to the Mayer Center because I had a problem with the Camera and than I went to buy a Coco finally for my happiness, mine while I met Vicky a girl that she did the form work with me and we went for a lunch together at Grill’s with other two Finnish girls that they were as well in the camping and than I went back in the hostel to rest and relax. And in the evening I stayed in the bed chilling and relaxing.
DAY 21 – Sunday 15.11.20
( Night at: Gilligan’s, Cairns )
( Walking alone in the city )
I woke up pretty early, I couldn’t sleep, I tried to solve few problems with the camera again, didn’t work so I went to the Mayer Center I solved it, than I come back in the hostel for the lunch. In the noon I walked around Cairns and I organised a bit the following days, and at 7:30 pm I went at work till 1 am.
DAY 22 – Monday 16.11.20
( Night at: Gilligan’s, Cairns )
( Enjoy a drink at the Oaks Rooftop bar )
I woke up around 9 am I did the breakfast and than I arrange few photos and writing on the laptop pretty chill morning, that I had lunch in the hostel. Than I went out for a drink at the rooftops bar of the Oaks Cairns Hotel, and than Vicky my fiend from the farm invece me to ho at the La Pizza restaurant and we went there for dinner and later I come back home early to sleep well for the day after.
DAY 23 – Tuesday 17.11.20
( Night at: Gilligan’s, Cairns )
( Scuba Dive in the Great Barrier Reef )
I woke up at 6:45 am, I get ready for a new adventure that I booked with Reef Experience which was included a scuba dive introductory experience and two snorkeling. The bus pick me up in Gilligan’s at 7:20 am to the harbour, I get on the boat I had a breakfast there, and than all the explanations about the Reef, Fish and how to Dive. I was in the ford group with three girls from Laos, so we started to understand how to breath for dive and than step by step more down in the water it was hurting a lot the hear but it was okay like in the plane more less, and suddenly we were down in the ocean at 12 meters, and swimming next to the corals it was very very amazing. Later I didn’t even realise but we went up step by step all this took around half an hour I think. After I went back on board and I get ready for snorkeling which it was nice but less than Whitsundays, after we had a lunch on the boat and than we stop for the second place to do snorkeling and there it was better than Whitsundays actually I found a marine turtle and I swam to follow her as much as I could it was amazing !!! Than I come back on the boat to chill relax and enjoy a glass of wine that was included on the boat and chill under the sun, after a more than an hour of snorkeling. Once we went back at the harbour the bus bring me at Gilligan, I went to the supermarket and than in the bed to relax and sleep.
DAY 24 – Wednesday 18.11.20
( Night at: Gilligan’s, Cairns )
( Nude Beach, Fitzroy Island )
I woke up at 6:30 am I made the sandwich for the lunch and than I went to take the boat to Fitzroy Island. The boat leave at 8 am and it takes around 40 minutes to arrived at Fitzroy Island I arrived there and I did the hiking till the Light house than I come back at the harbour and I walk to the Nude Beach I stayed there for the lunch and all afternoon basically, chilling taking photos and relaxing. Around 4 pm I went back at the harbour to take the boat at 5 pm and than I went straight at the hostel I took a shower and I went to sleep immediately.
DAY 25 – Thursday 19.11.20
( Night at: Gilligan’s, Cairns )
( Lunch in the terrace of the bedroom at Gilligan’s )
It was a pretty chill day I stayed at the hostel I arrende few photos on the balcony of the room than I went to buy a kebab for the lunch and I did an afternoon nap and than I went to work at 7:30 pm.
DAY 26 – Friday 20.11.20
( Night at: Gilligan’s, Cairns )
( Dragon fruit at the Rusty’s Markets )
I woke up at 9 am pretty early, I did the breakfast and than I went to the Rusty’s Markets to buy the coconut as every Friday and Saturday. It’s something amazing I do really like this market so nice. And than I the noon I slept a bit and later I went to work all night.
DAY 27 – Saturday 21.11.20
( Night at: Gilligan’s )
It was a quiet day I woke up around 10 am I went to the laser clinic than I passed by the Rusty Markets to drink a bit of coconut and than I bought few souvenirs and later on I come back in the hostel to sleep a bit and around 6 pm I had a dinner and I get ready to go to work till 3 pm.
DAY 28 – Sunday 22.11.20
( Night at: on the car Toyota Corolla in Palm Cove )
( Palm Cove beach at the sunset )
I woke up at 9 I did the check out at 10 am in the hostel and I left the things in the luggage room and I went to take the car at 11 am, I come back to the hostel I put all my stuff on the car and I started to drove up, first I stopped in Trinity beach which is okay but probably not my favourite. Thank I drove up to Clinton beach I did a lunch there and a little nap because I was very tired from the night before at work. Later I drove till Palm Cove were I stopped there for the sunset which it was amazing and than I decided to the sleep there on the car in a normal parking but than was too hot I couldn’t sleep so I move in an other parking just out of the Caravan Park and I tried to sleep a bit.
DAY 29 – Monday 23.11.20
( Night at: Ferntree Rainforest Lodge, Cape Tribulation)
( At Bruce Belcher’s Daintree River Cruise, Daintree )
I woke up very early at 4:30 am to see the sunrise in Palm beach which it was very amazing and at 6 am I started to drive up to Ellis beach which I stoped a bit there to take a little nap because I was too tired I couldn’t sleep anything the day before. Than I come back on the road driving up in Cook Highway, stopping at Rex Lookout and than at Thala Beach Nature Reserve which the street between the palm three was incredible very unique. Than the battery of my phone turn down so I didn’t know what to do anymore and where to go so I stopped randomly and than I found out that I was at the Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort so I hanged the phone and I took few photos and then I keep drove till Port Douglas where I stopped at the Trinity Bay Lookout and I had lunch there. At 2:30 pm I’ve booked a crocodile tour with Bruce Belcher’s Daintree River Cruise, it wasn’t the best because the crocodile were really small and since they can’t feed them there were far away or in the side of the river which you couldn’t really see them. Anyway after this I keep driving up in Cape Tribulation direction, and it was very surprising me cross a bridge with the car to go up to Cape Tribulation I didn’t expect that at all and after crossing the bridge I stopped at the Alexandra Lookout and then I went to Cow Bay Beach which it was really nice, but was a bit scary because there were just few old drunk Australia that they were doing the bbq there so I left kind of quickly. After an hour of driving I arrived at Ferntree Rainforest Lodge which it was amazing, an unbelievable Hotel I took few photos and then I went to sleep.
DAY 30 – Tuesday 24.11.20
( Night at: The billabong, Kuranda )
( At Myall Beach on the horse during the Horse Ringing Tour, Cape Tribulation )
I woke up early in the morning, I did the breakfast in the room and then I went around the Hotel to take photos that was amazing, definitely incredible, so perfect for the photos. Later I did the check out and I went to Kulki Boardwalk, which I walk a bit around and I went to the beach and at 11 am I had the Tour with the horses at Cape Tribulation Horse Rides, it was amazing ride an horse again which it was almost ten years that I wasn’t do it. We went till the sea and into the water as well, absolutely amazing couldn’t believe it. When I finished the tour I went to the Dubuji Boardwalk I had a lunch there and I walk a little bit but I wasn’t feeling that good actually probably was for the hot water so basically I chill a bit and the I keep drive down going back to Cairns passing by Kuranda in the morning. After I left Cape tribulation I stopped at the Daintree Ice Cream Company where I eat one of the best ice cream of my life probably four different taste: coconut, passionfruit, jackfruit and wattle seed which I don’t really even know those fruits but was incredible tasty. Than I stopped again at the Alexandra Lookout because today the weather is shiny and I stopped again as well at the Cow Bay Beach but I saw again the weird people so I didn’t stayed that long, I across the Daintree River on the bridge again and I keep driving down. I arrive at Mossman Gorge which I want to visit the Gorge but was close already and there isn’t an immediate access with the car only with a specificities bus or walking and was almost getting dark so I skip it and I went at Woolworths which I did a bit of groceries and then I drove down till Kuranda with the dark even if it’s something kind of dangerous because the kangaroo can across the street I did it anyway because I was more afraid of the cars there is everyone was going really fast and the street isn’t best just very curvy but in the evening was really quiet so I drove for two hours tile arrived at the Billabong Camping in Kuranda, I had a quick dinner and I went to sleep.
DAY 31 – Wednesday 25.11.20
( Night at: Mad Monkey, Cairns )
( Botanical garden, Cairns )
I woke up at 7 am, I did the breakfast and then I went around the camping and I took few photos because the place was really beautiful into the nature, it was not only a camping but also a pub kind of or actually more like a place for private events like weddings or any ceremony. Than I drove to Kuranda village and there I supposed to meet Vicky one of my friend from the farm that I’ve met here few days ago and she’s also around with her car. But unfortunately when I arrived everything was close this place is famous for the markets but nothing was open. I’ve tried the Kuranda Scenic Railway but also the train wasn’t working on Wednesday, so I texted Vicky to not come and we rescheduled it for the next day to do it together and she will pick me up in Cairns because now I has to give back the car to the Jucy Rental Company. So I left Kuranda I went went to the cairns Botanical Garden which I still have a bit of time and then I went to the Mad Monkey Hostel for the check in and I dropped the car off and I come back at the Hostel by walk. I’ve done almost nothing except chilling organise again all my stuff and get ready to go to work at 8 pm.
DAY 32 – Thursday 26.11.20
( Night at: Mad Monkey, Cairns )
( Kuranda Original Rainforest Markets, Kuranda )
I woke up early in the morning I did the breakfast in the hostel and at 8:30 am Vicky my friend from the farm comes to pick me up and we went to Kuranda Original Rainforest Markets, which it was really nice and isa really typical attraction near Cairns, well wasn’t that busy but we could enjoy it with an ice cream, chat a bit and take few photos and around 12 am we come back in Cairns because she has to give back the car that she rented. I chill in the hostel a bit and I’ve tried to plan everything for the trip in Northern Territory. I took a little nap and at 8 pm I went to work.
DAY 33 – Friday 27.11.20
( Night at: Mad Monkey, Cairns )
( The swimming pool at the Mad Monkey Hostel )
I woke up really late and a bit in hangover, anxious about the leaving of the day after without knowing how it few things and I tried to organise everything as much as I could, basically I did that all noon and I started to do the luggage. Chill a bit next t the pool at the hostel and then go to work at 8 pm.
DAY 34 – Saturday 28.11.20
( Night at: Cavenagh Hotel, Darwin )
( On the plane to Darwin from Cairns, Jetstar )
I woke up at 9 am I did the breakfast at the hostel, thank I did the check out and I went to walk around cairns for the last time, I walk till the lagoon and than Rusty’s Markets to drink the last coconut and then at 12:30 pm I called and Uber to the airport. My flight was at 3:10 pm but still I was a little bit afraid because I didn’t know I the things are working especially now with the virus that there are a lot of controls and form to fill up. Once I get in the airport basically I just waited the flight and chill, I would like to sleep but I couldn’t even if I was very tired from the night before that I worked. Once I landed in Darwin was raining a little bit and I order and Uber to the Hotel which it was kind of far. Once I get there I did the check -in and I went to the Mcdonald’s for dinner and I did a little walk around and then I went to sleep.
DAY 35 – Sunday 29.11.20
( Night at: Cavenagh Hotel, Darwin )
( Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin )
I woke up at 7 am kind of early and I went to the supermarket to buy something to eat I had a breakfast and then I started to visit the city, first I went to the Darwin Chinese temple just behind my building, I walked around it was amazing full of murals absolutely a different atmosphere then Queensland I could feel that I was in a different place with different vibes. Later I took the bus and I went to visit the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. I was very nice and interesting so I could know a bit more of the Aboriginal culture and the history of Darwin. After I took a walk around next to Mindil Beach till the Botanical Gardens I had lunch there ad after I come back to the Hotel because was too hot impossible to walk around, I took a little nap and then I went to the Darwin Waterfront Precint all the area there and I walk next to the coast till the Darwin Cenotaph War Memorial where I saw the sunset and it was magical definitely. I called my mother showing her around the city a little bit and then I come back to the Hotel for a dinner and sleep.
DAY 36 – Monday 30.11.20
( Night at: Cavenagh Hotel, Darwin )
( At Banyan Tree Caravan Park with a snake around my neck )
For today I booked the tour to the Litchfield National Park. I woke up at 5:30 am and a bit after the bus come to pick me up. First we stopped in a Petrol station for the breakfast and than the first activity was the Crocodile experience at Adelaide River Cruises – Jumping Crocodile Experience. From the first crocodile cruise that I’ve done in the Daintree forest it was very different the crocodile were much more bigger and in NT is allowed feed them so they know it and they come closer to eat and the show is amazing really incredible. In an hours of cruise probably we have saw more than ten crocodile, unforgettable experience. After we went to Litchfield National park stopping first at the Wangi Waterfall, amazing waterfall, I swam there the water is hot and refreshing from the hot summer. After we had a wrap as a lunch in the rest area of the waterfall and than we continued to other waterfalls. The second one was Florence waterfall, full of black big fish it was really nice swam with them and then go under the waterfall take a shower. Then after few minutes we stopped at Buley Rockhole nice waterfall but nothing special actually, and the tour guide bring me to swim in the river near the waterfall totally wild into the nature I never done something like that before. It was amazing definitely an unforgettable experience. And before going back to Darwin we did other two stop: the first was the Magnetic Termite Mounds, very suggestive place and definitely particular. The second was at the Banyan Tree Caravan Park where for the first time in my life I had a snake around my neck I was very afraid but still all the day it was an amazing experience definitely one of my fav tour that I ever done in my life. I arrived back in the hostel around 5 pm I took a shower and I went to sleep.
DAY 37 – Tuesday 01.12.20
( Night at: Cavenagh Hotel, Darwin )
I woke up around 7 am, I did the breakfast and I took few photos at the pool of the hostel and than I went to the Camera Shop because the battery of the camera wasn’t working anymore. After that I took the bus to the Casino because I wanted to go there to chill at the infinity pool but unfortunately was close so I walk to the Burnett House and after that to the Cullen Bay Marina and from there I took and Uber to go back at the hostel for lunch because it was to hot to walk. After lunch I went at the Aboriginal Bush Traders and after at The Bookshop in the Main Street that upstairs has a really amazing art gallery and after I went Mbantua Gallery. It was amazing spent the noon around the city centre visiting all the aboriginal galleries, after I went back at the hostel to relax at the pool, rest and take a shower. Later on I went to Woolworths to buy a bit of food for the trip and than I went to sleep.
DAY 38 – Wednesday 02.12.20
( Night at: Greyhound bus )
( The Greyhound bus at the petrol station, Darwin )
I woke up at 7 am because I couldn’t sleep anymore and I called my gf while I was doing the breakfast, and than I print the bus ticket I made the sandwich, I did the check out at the Hostel and I went to take the Greyhound bus at 9:55 am. It was a really long way 1500km from Darwin to Alice Springs, planning to arrive in Alice Springs the day after at 7:35 am, almost 22hrs on the bus. It was a long way but I don’t mind staying on the bus the only problem it was that in the evening one of my tooth started to hurt me a lot so I took many medicine and I could sleep all the night more less.
The bus stopped at the following places:
- Palmerston
- Adelaide river
- Katherine
- Mataranka
- Dunmarra
- Tenant Creek
DAY 39 – Thursday 03.12.20
( Night at: YHA Alice Springs )
( Anzac Hill the view on Alice Springs during the sunset )
I arrived with the bus in Alice Springs in the morning around 7 am after spending all night on the bus, so I went straight to the hostel to leave everything and than I’ve tried to organze everything for the trip but first I stopped at the Cafe Page 29 to do the breakfast and than I went to the turistico office to try to organise everything even if in Northern Territory everything is really expensive so I decided to rent a car till Ayers Rock airport and the only company that’s doing that is Hertz Car Rental so I talked also to them and I booked everything. Than I went back to the hostel to sleep because I was too tired from the trip and the hot weather was killing me than when I woke up I went to the Anzac Hill to see the view of the city from the top during the sunset it was amazing and than I went back to the hostel.
DAY 40 – Friday 04.12.20
( Night at: YHA Alice Springs )
I woke up early planning to the explore Alice Spring so first I went to the botanical gardens but it wasn’t anything special actually and it was very hot so I went back in the city I took few photos in the Main Street and than I went to the Fly Doctor museums but it was quite expensive so I skipped it. And I went back to the hostel for lunch and for chill in the pool because it was too hot I couldn’t handle that weather. And than I get ready to go out because on the 4th of December it was a big celebration in Alice Spring it was for the Christmas Carnival, I had no idea of what it was and when I discovered it was really fun I like it all the little markets around the Main Street and the parade as a Christmas and than Santa Klaus with 35 degrees it was really funny I enjoy all of it and at the and at 8 pm there where the fireworks, it was like a Christmas, New Year and Carnival all together really fun.
DAY 41 – Saturday 05.12.20
( Night at: YHA Alice Springs )
( Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs )
I woke up early to try to do the last things in Alice Springs first I walk till the Araluen Cultural Precinct I immediately stopped at the bar Yaye’s for a fresh smoothie because I was dying it was too hot and I walked quit a lot. Than I visit the museum there it was really nice I liked them nothing special but nice anyway as than I walked back to the hostel for lunch and I spent the noon in the pool again because it was really really hot and after I supposed to watch the sunset again but it was cloudy so I just went to the McDonald’s to eat in the bad and I went to sleep early.
DAY 42 – Sunday 06.12.20
( Night at: Ormiaton Gorge Campground, McDonnell National Park )
( Me at Ellery Creek Big Hole, NT )
I woke up at 7 am and I walk till the Hertz car rental to pick up the car at 8 am Which it was the only possible pick up time. Thank I did the grocery and I get prepared to travel in the desert buying enough water and I pick up all my stuff at the hostel. First I went to visit the Telegraph station just few km from Alce springs and than I passed by the Ghan museum ( National Road Transport Hall of Fame ) and than I started my journey from the west McDonnell National Park. The first stop was at the Desert park which I could get in with the student card, it was interesting definitely different from all the others Zoo/Sanctuary where I’ve been but probably not the best. I could stay with the red cangaroo which they are my fav type and I’ve seen a lot of birds. Than I stopped at the John Flynn’s Grave Historical Reserve just at the beginning where there is the main sculpture. After I drove till Simpsons Gap but unfortunately there wearer was kind of bad cloudy and raining I had a lunch there and I visit it and than I keep drive till Stanley Chasm which the entrance cost 10$ and again it was nice the light wasn’t the best since it was cloudy and as the last thing of the day I stopped at Ellery Creek Big Hole. After I started to search for a place to sleep during the night and I passed by Neil Hargrave Lookout which it was amazing for the sunset and than I arrived at Ormiston Gorge Campground which I has a dinner there and I stoped for the night.
DAY 43 – Monday 07.12.20
( Night at: Kings Canyon Resort )
( Petrol station, Hermannsburg )
I woke up pretty early because it was impossible sleep for the mosquitoes so I went to visit Ormiston Gorge first, just next to the Campground and than I drove to the Serpentine Gorge which it was quite nice I liked it but not my favorite and absolutely none around it was almost scary travelling into the nature alone but I did it hoping that it was safe because also the phone has no connection so it was totally weird. After that I went to Ochre Pits which it was okay but nothing special, and than I continued to drive till the Mount Sonder Lookout which I passed there the day before but only for few minutes before founding the camping. After this little I started to drove a lot because it was a long day many km, but beautiful experience. I’ve tried to visit Redbank Gorge which it was way to hard for me because you need to do a walk of few hours and I didn’t have that time to spent there so I just went to the lookout and than I keep driving till the Tylers Pass Lookout which I did a quick stop there and than I keep driving till Hermannsburg which I supposed to do a quick lunch break there and gasoline and later visit Palm Valley and Finke Gorge National Park. But the plan change because since I’ve started to drive to Hermannsburg I could have seen that was surrendered by aboriginal people and everyone old / ruined looks like Brazil, one I did gasoline everyone was looking at me pretty bad and I felt the only foreign one after the petrol station I stoped at Hermannsburg Historic Precinct which unfortunately it was closed so I had a walk around and I drove around as well but was really possible take photos but I’ve tried to do it anyway than I stoped in the mai supermarket and I left even if I would stayed longer. I’ve started to drove in the Red Centre Way which it was really different I mean there wasn’t even the asphalt on the road definitely wild with wild horses and wild camels and amazing experience and at the end of the road I arrive at the Kings Canyon Resort which it was possible camping so I’ve done it and before the sun goes down I’ve seen a beautiful sunset with the Kings Canyon.
DAY 44 – Tuesday 08.12.20
( Night at: Carpark out of the Ayers Rock Resort )
( Chris Hill’s Uluru Camel Tours, Yulara Ayers Rock )
I woke up at 7 am, I did the breakfast and get ready for an other wonderful day in the Outback, I did the petrol and I bought the repellent for the flies and I drove to the Kings Canyon where I did the easier and fastest walk and I went at the lookout, I like it but probably isn’t my favourite, I mean If u like hike and u have plenty of time to sped there maybe is more enjoyable. After the walk that I could have done it thanks to the fly repellent if not was impossible I didn’t understand why but is full of flies. On the way to Yulara I stopped in different places first for a drink in Kings Creek Station for a cold drink because was the first day really sunny, later I stoped for the lunch at Mount Conner Lookout really nice view but still again too many flies was impossible. Than I started to feel not that well, my tooth hurt again so I stopped a bit at Curtin Spring Station to take few medicine and rest a bit.Than I keep drove till Yulara. Once I get there I went to the Ayers Rock Camground for the check in but once I get they inform me about the price and it was too expensive so I diced to sleep in the car at the carpark of the Ayers Rock Resort. It was very hot the Camel tour started at 5:30 pm so I went around Yulara a bit before, I bought something to eat at the supermarket but then it was really to hot I just wanted to go to the swimming pool to refresh myself a little bit so I enter illegally at the Ayes Rock Resort and I stayed a bit in swimming pool to refresh myself and take few photos. Around 5 pm I drove to the Chris Hill’s Uluru Camel Tours which I liked the place so much, I took photos all around for more then half an hour and then I started the tour. It was my second time on a Camel, I like it is really chill absolutely different than horses. So we done a walk around the desert to see the sunset next to Uluru and we come back in the dark for a little snacks and a glass of Prosecco and then I left going back to the Carpark to sleep early being ready for the day after.
DAY 45 – Wednesday 09.12.20
( Night at: Carpark out of the Ayers Rock Resort )
( Uluru Sunrise Viewing Area )
I woke up at 5 am and I immediately drove to the sunrise Uluru view. Which it was unforgettable really beautiful but unfortunately later become cloudy but at least the sunrise it was very beautiful. Than I supposed to visit the culturale center but unfortunately everything is closed due to the virus and I drove to the Male Carpark which I did a little walk around Uluru very nice and particular. I wasn’t feeling very well actually so I went to Kata Tjuta I stoped at the car park valley of the winds and I rested a little bit and I had a lunch there. After I did the Valley of the Winds Walk for an hour more less which it was really nice but still the weather not the best very cloudy and almost raining on the way back to Yulara I stopped at the Kata Tjuta Dune Viewing but there were really too many flies that I couldn’t even enjoy it. Than I went back to Yulare I went to take a shower at the Camping ( not check-in because is too expensive 51$ for a night ) and than I went to Yeko Cafe where I tried to organise everything forMelbourne and than I went to see the sunset at Uluru Sunset Viewing Area and I wanted for the sunset while I had the dinner but unfortunately wasn’t the best because was very cloudy. Then I come back to the car park to sleep and rest.
DAY 46 – Thursday 10.12.10
( Night at : Jolly Swagman Backpackers, Potts Point )
( Flight Jetstar from Ayers Rock ( Uluru to Sydney )
I woke up around & am that was poorly raining so I pack my things as much as I could and I clean the car a bit which I have to drop it of at 8 am or actually before 9 am at the Ayers Rock Airport. I drop the key off at the Hertz Company and then I stayed at the airport, arranging photos and writing all morning, once they open the gate I bought a sandwich for the lunch and then I keep selecting photos also on the plane which it depart at 13:05 pm and I landed in Sydney around 5 pm. Once I landed in Sydney I had to do everything very quick because was already late ad I had to be at work at 9 pm, but before arrived at the hostel with the metro, do the check in and then get ready to go to work, ah and have a dinner as well. Everything on a rush but I made it and I loved Sydney, probably my fav city I Australia I couldn’t be happier everything looked amaizing.
Road trip Australia 2021( VIC+QLD+WA+SA )
27 DAYS OF TRAVELLING
Everything happened earlier then what I planned due to the Covid lockdown happened in Melbourne, first I tried to escape in Adelaide then I went to Brisbane and Gold Coast for few days and then I went to visit my friend in Perth and then I visit Adelaide and I drove back to Melbourne passing by the Great Ocean Road.
( Rottnest Island, Wester Australia )
Well it didn’t really start as a road trip, well I was planning it of course but few weeks later probably. On the 12th of February precisely a year that I left Italy I receive a message from my boss in the noon that thee Club was closing at mid night and was staying close for at least the next five days due to new COVID-19 cases in the city. I freak out totally because it already happened to me once when I arrived in Sydney and I decided to stay but then to leave I had to do the quarantine so this time I wanna do the things differently. So I immediately pack all my things and I wanted to go to Perth but of course WA was the first state close the border for VIC and then I wanted to go to Canberra but I couldn’t buy the ticket and was very expensive even if the boss of the club there told that I could go there without any problem the same night but was impossible for me buy the flight ticket so I just order Uber and in the car I bought the ticket to Adelaide. And after I planned the road trip step by step because I didn’t know what I could and what I could’t do as usual due to the virus because at that time there were few hotspots around.
DAY 1 – Friday 12.02.21
( Night at: Stamford Plaza, Adelaide )
( Stamford plaza room 527, Adelaide )
On the 12th of February precisely a year that I left Italy I woke up in Melbourne at the Hostel Village where I was living, lazy to go to work in the evening. Actually a bit sick as well maybe with a bit of fewer, I canceled the appointment at the laser clinic because I wasn’t feeling well. I come back to sleep and at 2 pm I woke up I found a message from my manger that told me that the club was closed till Thursday due to the new Covid cases in the city so I panicked as usual and from the previous time I’ve learn on my skin that I don’t have to wait, because in Sydney I wanted to spend there the new year so I stayed there and then I cost me the quarantine in Melbourne once I arrived there. So I didn’t want to do the same and I wanted to keep travelling and working since my visa is almost expired. Then I talked with the guy at the reception I could leave most of my thing there so I did and I just put few random things in my big yellow luggage that has to be under 30 kg. I thought to go to Canberra but I couldn’t book the flight and I was already 4 pm so I decided to go to the airport and book a flight from there. So I started calling a Uber, invece I get in the car the driver asked me which terminal and I didn’t know which one, because the Tullamarine airport in Melbourne is pretty big. So I just tried to book a random flight which it was to Adelaide, I thought that was fine and the border will close at mid night the flight was at 20:55 pm so supposed to be good. I landed in Adelaide at 21: 45 pm, and there the police started the control. I did the pass but was declined because I wasn’t an essential traveller. I tried to talk with them but they said that I couldn’t be in Adelaide at the moment but the airport was closing so they deport me at the Hotel quarantine in Stamford Plaza Adelaide which I spent the night there.
DAY 2 – Saturday 13.02.21
( Night at: Nomads Hostel, Brisbane )
( On the plane from Adelaide to Brisbane with Virgin Airways )
I woke up in Adelaide at the hotel around 8 am I did the breakfast, then the police called me to telling me to book a flight to go back to Melbourne and they ll order a taxi to escort me to the airport, I didn’t want to go back in Melbourne after those Monday that I’ve spent the stress, never, so I called everyone and basically seems really prohibited stay in South Australia the only option was doing the quarantine there at my own expenses which I didn’t want to of course, so I decided to try to book a flight to Brisbane. I did it. All this happened after lunch and I was very tired and over stressed but I packed my thing and I called the reception to book me a taxi to go to the airport. So the taxi come I was escorted by the police till the airport and also inside the police woman waited the flight with me and there was also an other woman. The flight was at 16:50 pm. I was very nervous because I wasn’t sure that I’m Brisbane they will allow me to enter. Probably it was one of my worse flight, over stress. Once I landed in Brisbane around 7:10 pm I was almost shaking I went to claim the luggage I took my big back and then I saw few police man. I had to lie. They asked me if I was in Adelaide for more then a month and I stayed “ yes, a month and half “ and the police officer let me go. I order a Uber immediately and I tried to leave as quick as possible the airport. I arrived at the nomads hostel I did the check in and get ready to go to work at Love & Rokets at 9 pm. It was very good but I was very tired, it felt like home be back at the club almost same faces the manager she was amazon with me and also see again Jennifer was very nice. Then at 5 am I went back home to sleep.
DAY 3 – Sunday 14.02.21
( Night at: Nomads Hostel, Brisbane )
( Room 110 at Nomads Hostel, Brisbane )
I was very tired from the pat days and probably a bit sick as well so I slept all day except around 3 pm that I woke up and I went to McDonald’s to eat something then I come back to sleep and once I woke up I got ready to go to work at Love&Rocket at 7:45 pm. It was a really quiet night even if it was San Valentine’s Day anyway Jennifer was working as well and it was a long time that I haven’t seen a her so we could chat a lot and had a good time together. I did make that much money but I had a really good time and it feels like come back at the that club because it was my first one, the one that I started. They I arrived back in the hostel around 3 am and I went to sleep.
DAY 4 – Monday 15.02.21
( Night at: Nomads Hostel, Brisbane )
( Lunch at the Beer Garden, South Bank )
I woke up around mid day, and I walk to south bank I had the lunch at the Beer Garden and I enjoy the summer atmosphere in south back which I really missed this hot weather. Definitely summer. I took few photos around and I enjoyed the day for myself, then I wok back to the CBD I did a bit of shopping because I had nothing with me just few random clothes from the Melbourne. Then I come back in the hostel I get ready and I went to Mrs Percival for a drink before sleeping. Which I really like the atmosphere I really enjoyed it while I was talking on the phone with my mum.
DAY 5 – Tuesday 16.02.21
( Night at: Bunk Hostel, Gold Coast )
( At The Island Hotel, Gold Coast )
I woke up around 9 am I did my luggage and the check out at 10 am in the hostel I went to the laser clinic at the Queen Plaza but unfortunately they didn’t do the treatment because I was wearing fake tan. Then I passed by the Metro supermarket to buy something for the breakfast and I come back at the hostel to grab my luggage and head to the Central station where I met Shila my friend from Fraser Island and we took together the train to Gold Coast, it was very nice to see her again I didn’t expect to see her that soon because the last time that I’ve seen her was in Sydney when I left for Melbourne at the beginning of January. Once we arrived in Surfers Paradise she comes with me and I did the check in at the Bunk Hostel they gave me the room 217 which has a good view and we went for lunch at …. which we had a pizza it was good and a nice company as well then it started to rain a lot so we went around in few shops and then she went to visit her friend and I went to the hostel to sleep because anyway I was tired from the past days that they were very intense. And once I woke up from the afternoon nap I got ready because I have the audition at Hollywood at 8:30 pm, which I went there but unfortunately the manger couldn’t arrive on time so we reached it for the day after.
DAY 6 – Wednesday 17.02.21
( Night at: Bunk Hostel, Gold Coast )
( Ice Crean at Pacific Fair, Gold Coast )
I woke up pretty late I went to the swimming of the Island Hotel but I didn’t stay there a lot because was hot but one second rain and one second sunshine pretty craY weather so I just took few photos and then I went to the Pacific Fair to book an appointment at the laser clinic and eat something. Which it was really nice being there I had and ice cream and later I had lunch at the McDonald’s. Then I come back in the hostel I took a nap and later I got ready for the audition at 8:30 pm at Hollywood. Which it went well I was kind of anxious to be honest because I ever done that before but was really quick and the manger she was nice. So then I come back home I called my mum a bit and I went to sleep.
DAY 7 – Thursday 18.02.21
( Night at: Bunk Hostel, Gold Coast )
( Around Surfer Paradise before the night )
I woke up at 10 am I extended the night at the hostel since I’ve got the job in the club and then I went to the beach even if the weather wasn’t the best. Then I went to the supermarket I cooked and then I come back in the bed to sleep and relax all day basically while outside was raining. Then at 8:30 pm I had the video call with my Italian University and I called my mum as well later and I went to sleep. Pretty chill and relaxing day. I wish that I’ve could some more but was raining a lot.
DAY 8 – Friday 19.02.21
( Night at: Bunk Hostel, Gold Coast )
( Breakfast at Palazzo Versace )
I woke up at 7:30 am and I get ready to go at the laser clinic at the Pacific Fair which I had the appointment there at 8:30 am. It was raining a lot, crazy, like the summer storms. Then I come back to the hostel I get ready and I decided to go to Palazzo Versace to have a breakfast there which is something that I couldn’t do it the last time because was too late. Amazing I missed that place probably is one of my favourite place in Gold Coast, so I order a breakfast which is so nice and so good. I stayed there a little bit enjoy the morning, the food and the atmosphere then around 1 pm I come back in the hostel and basically I tried to sleep before going to work which I had to be at Hollywood at 8:30 pm for the induction. It was good, a good night very different then what I used to but I kind of liked the place. I finished at 4 am and I went to sleep.
DAY 9 – Saturday 20.02.21
( Night at: Bunk Hostel, Gold Coast )
( Sunset in Surfer Paradise, Gold Coast )
I woke up pretty late, around mid day because I worked the night before, then I had a quick lunch in the hostel and basically I come back to sleep, anyway the weather outside wasn’t the best, rainy and cloudy. Then I woke up at 6 pm and I saw the sky amazing so I decided to go to the beach to watch the sunset which it was incredible very amazing, pinky sky. Then I started to get ready to go to work that I started around 9 pm well I went at Hollywood around that time but then I started a bit later when I was ready. Till 4 am when the club closed.
DAY 10 – Sunday 21.02.21
( Night at: Pirates Backpackers, Fremantle )
( Gold Coast airport on the way to Perth )
I work up at 9:30 am kind of tired from the night before that I worked. I pack everything and I did the check out at 10 am, I went to the beach even if the weather wasn’t the best, but I enjoyed it and I took the last couples of photos around. Then I come back at the bunk around mid day I cooked had lunch and then I took a nap on the couch in the living room later on I tried to go to the swimming pool but still it was too cloudy so I pick up the big luggage at the reception and I head down to the airport which it was kind of easy with the tram till Broadbeach South and then from there 20 minutes on the bus to the airport. The flight to Perth was at 7:40 pm with Jetstar and I will arrive in Perth at 10:50 pm where Laura she’s gonna wait me there. It was an amazing surprise meet here at the airport the was waiting me with a paper in her hands written ” Welcome to WA ” she was to nice. And was absolutely amazing see her again unbelievable. From the airport there were no more buses so we took the Uber to the Hostel in Fremantle where she was living at that time, once we arrived we eat something and then we went time sleep kind of early after we chat a bit because it was since November that I wasn’t seen her.
DAY 11 – Monday 22.02.21
( Night at: Pirates Backpackers, Fremantle )
( The view on Perth CBD on the cruise )
We woke up kind of early in the morning, we did the breakfast together me and Laura at Dome Cafe Fremantle, then she went to the gym and I went back to the hostel doing the proper check in and arranging my stuff then when comes back from the gym we went to take the sun at Bathers Beach House which it was absolutely amazing chill in the sunned and drinking I loved it a lot, specially after a week in Gold Coast that was raining all the time. After we come back to the hostel we eat something quickly and we took the train to go to Perth CBD, we explore around in the main street and then we walk through the Kings Street where all the shops are. We went to the harbour we took few photos and then we took the ferry to the other side of the river so we could watch the sunset on the city that was amazing we really enjoyed it. After the cruise we did an aperitifs at 18 Knotos Rooftop Bar at Hilton and we enjoyed the view and the atmosphere. Then we catch the train again to go back to Fremantle at the hostel where we eat something and I watched in streaming the degree of my university mate Martina and then we went to sleep.
DAY 12 – Tuesday 23.02.21
( Night at: Pirates Backpackers, Fremantle )
( At Parker Point, Rottnest Island )
Me and Laura we woke up kind of early around 8 am we did the breakfast and she worked a bit in the hostel then we went to catch the ferry Rottnest Island at 11:30 am. This island is really famous for the quokka which is always advertised in selfies and those selfie becomes famous because looks like that this little animals is smiling and seems really cute on the photos, but when I saw it in the reality is a bit different it looks like just a rat honestly. Anyway the ferry was really quick like half an hour and with the ferry ticket we hired also a bike to go around the island and visit it better. First we went to the Bathurst Lighthouse which is just next to the port only few meters and then to the famous Pinky Beach which it was amazing I really loved it. For lunch we stopped at the Pinky’s Beach Club and we enjoyed a bit the atmosphere but the island isn’t too small so we get back on the bike first to find a quokka and then explore the island. We went to the centre of the village where we could see the first quokka but the ppl there told us that the quokka are going out in the evening usually during the sunset . So we proceed to explore the island going down east to Peterson Beach, Parker Point, Little Salmon Bay a bit all over and than we realise that it was really huge the island to visit it all in one day so we crossed the Serpentine Lake and we went back to the centre of the village and we found many many quokka and we took many selfies with them it was amazing loved it. After at 6:30 pm we took the ferry to go back to Fremantle, it was an amazing day. Before going back to the hostel we stopped at the supermarket to buy something to eat and we come back to the hostel to sleep.
DAY 13 – Wednesday 24.02.21
( Night at: Pirates Backpackers, Fremantle )
( Day trip in Penguin Island )
We woke up early, prepare the sandwich and we went to take the bus to go to Penguin Island which is a bit far from Fremantle. We took the bus at 9:45 am and after the bus we took a Uber that brings us at the point where the ferry depart to penguin island, and the ferry was at 11:00 am it takes only 15 minutes or 20 to arrive at the island and is really nice I liked a lot, but the island is very small I thought that we have to stay there hours and hours to explore it as much as we can but was literally impossible so we decided to come back a bit earlier and see the sunset in Fremantle. so we took the ferry at 3 pm on the way back we saw some sea lions it was amazing. After with the bus we come back to Fremantle and we went to watch the sunset at Bathers House which it was amazing while drinking a beer. After we organised a bbq in the Hostel with other guys friends of Laura, such a nice holiday day.
DAY 14 – Thursday 25.02.21
( Night at: Pirates Backpackers, Fremantle )
( Scarborough Beach, Western Australia )
We woke up early an for the breakfast we went to Moore & Moore Cafe which it was very nice we totally enjoyed and after we took the bus to Scarborough Beach which is one of the most famous near to Perth, we arrived there at 3 pm but was impossible for me very very wind I hated it, but well we stayed there all afternoon that after the friend of Laura, Ellie arrived and we went to walk around that there were the street markets and then we went to drink something at El Grotto and then we went to watch the sunset on the beach which it was very amazing and after we catch the bus to come back to Fremantle.
DAY 15 – Friday 26.02.21
( Night at: YHA Adelaide Central )
( Fremantle markets, Western Australia )
Wake up early and at 9:30 we went to the Fremantle markets very nice and relaxing atmosphere trying to enjoying my last night in Fremantle we come back in the hostel I pack everything we had the lunch together and at 2:30 pm I called the Uber to go to the airport and I took the flight at 4:40 pm with Jetstar I landed in Adelaide at 10 pm I took a Uber to the YHA Hostel check in and go to the Club to work, I started pretty late around 11 pm and I was very tired but it went well not too hard and I kind of liked the Club.
DAY 16 -Saturday 27.02.21
( Night at: YHA Adelaide Central )
( YHA Hostel, Adelaide )
I tried to sleep as much as I could than I did the lunch at McDonald’s I walked around the CBD a little bit then I come back to sleep and at 7:30 pm I went to work again till late.
DAY 17 – Sunday 28.02.21
( Night at: Tequila Sunrise Hostel, Adelaide )
( Pina Colada at Palais Hotel Beach Club, Semaphore Beach )
I woke up at 10 am totally in hangover and I have to do the check out at the hostel so I pack everything and I went at the Tequila Sunrise hostel to do the check in. I get into the room 109 a eight bed dorm, really small but for the price was okay. Then I went at the supermarket to buy something to eat and then I come back to the hostel to sleep till 4 pm. When I woke up I took the bus to Semaphore beach, it took me around an hour but was really nice, relax atmosphere. I went on the beach but was pretty windy so then I moved to the bar at the Palais Hotel Beach Club for a drink which it was really cool and then I went to the beach to see better the sunset, defiantly amazing. And then I come back to the Hostel to sleep.
DAY 18 – Monday 01.03.21
( Night at: Tequila Sunrise Hostel, Adelaide )
( Hahndorf Village, South Australia )
I woke up kind of early, I did the breakfast at the Hostel and than I went to take the bus to Hahndorf which I arrived there around 11 am and first I went to The Farm Barn it was really nice and relaxing I love visit farm to see the animals and stay in the nature. Then I took the bus back to Hahndorf main street and I stopped to have a lunch in a typical German pub called Hahndorf Inn and then I walked around the village taking few photos and I did degustation of wines at Landhaus Wines which it was very nice and after I come back to the Hostel with the bus at 5 pm. I took a shower I changed and I went to Glenelg to The Mosely Beach Club to enjoy the sunset and having an aperitif while the sun goes down.
DAY 19 – Tuesday 02.03.21
( Night at: Tequila Sunrise Hostel, Adelaide )
( Around Kangaroo Island, South Australia )
Woke up at 6:15 am 6:45 am I took the bus to Cape Jervis Ferry Terminal which is just in front of the Kangaroo Island. I was very tired actually just because I don’t used to woke up that early so I slept all the two hours on the bus. Then at 9 am I bore on the boat to the Island and once I get there I tried to find a solution to rent a car because I haven’t done it before, at the ferry terminal there Budget Car Rental so I rent the car from them a Kia Cerato which is a good car but probably not the ideal one because for the island probably is better a 4×4 one I get the car I went to the IGA at Penneshaw which is over priced but I bought something to eat for lunch, then I start the tour of the island. The first stop that I did was in Pennington Bay which was amazing blue ocean loved it and then I head to Seal Bay which you need to buy a ticket but is totally worth it because you see all the Sea Lions on the beach sleeping a wonderful scenario. Then I went to Vivonne bay but was literally impossible stay on the beach actually because was over windy so I left after few minutes I couldn’t even had a lunch there. Then I proceeded to the Flindes Chase National Park which it was very beautiful but unfortunately was also the pet of the island that was debated by the bushfire last year so the nature wasn’t the best. I went first at the Admirals Arch which is totally incredible and then I went to the Remarkable Rocks which isn’t something that wonderful but yes I liked it. The I had and issued because the cable of the phone wasn’t an USB so I couldn’t charge the phone and I didn’t know where to go to sleep so I decided to head north quickly before the sunset. I arrived at The Rockpool Cafe where there was a camping so I stopped there for the night trying to find a charger, and well I could’t so I just eat something wash myself and get on the car to sleep.
DAY 20 – Wednesday 03.03.21
( Night at: The Rockpool Cafe, Caravan Park in Kangaroo Island )
( Enjoying the wine at the Dudley Wines, Kangaroo Island )
I woke up at 8 am scared that someone made me pay for the night, I went to the beach next to the Cafe to enjoy the morning vibes and I hoped that the Cafe was opening around 9 am but nothing, luckily I could find a spot to charge my phone, and after I could start the day driving to Emu Bay Lavender Farm to get the breakfast there and relax bit, takes some photos and then I went to Cape Willoughby it was kind of a long drive and I passed by Penneshaw to the bakery to get something for the lunch and after enjoying the Cape Willoughby on the way back to take the ferry I stoped at the famous Dudley Wines for a drink even if I was driving so I couldn’t really d a degustation unfortunately, after I drove back to Penneshaw Beach which I enjoyed the last island vibes I give back the car rated at the harbour and at 7 pm the ferry depart to go back to Cape Jervis and from there I took the bus to come back to Adelaide. Those two days there were such an adventure but I liked it I expected more from this island but anyway was very nice I enjoyed the nature and the island vibes.
DAY 21 – Thursday 04.03.21
( Night at: Tequila Sunrise Hostel, Adelaide )
( Lambert vineyard, Shiraz grapes )
I decided to do a tour at the Barossa Vally with Backpackers deal.
At 9 am the bus tour comes to pick me up at the YHA Central Hostel and from there the day tour started off at Château Yaldara: home to what is undoubtedly some of the finest Shirazes as well as magnificent and well-preserved period architecture.
From Chateau Yaldara we drive through the picturesque vineyards of the Barossa Valley, and crossing Jacob’s Creek. The tour then arrives at the historic township of Tanunda where there’s time to wander up the high street and explore the quaint little shops or enjoy a coffee. As one of the best getaways in Adelaide, our next stop is the renowned Peter Lehmann winery. Then our group will enjoy an exclusive structured wine tasting hosted in the beautiful Eight Songs room within their cellar door. Here you’ll be given the opportunity to sample some of the Barossa’s internationally acclaimed vintages. Peter Lehmann’s is also our venue for lunch, where you will be treated to an exquisite Weighbridge platter of cheeses, olives, the region’s finest meats, and assorted vegetables accompanied by freshly baked bread. After lunch we had to Lamber winery founded by Americans with all the vineyards ecological and very tasty wine and then the last one of the day was the Wolf Blass. Then the tour guide hard back to Adelaide with the bus and I arrived at the hostel around 5 ok probably. I socialise with one of my roommate which she’s British and we order a Mexican dinner at the hostel and then I went to sleep pretty late.
DAY 22 – Friday 05.03.21
( Night at: Tequila Sunrise Hostel, Adelaide )
( Hallett Cove, Adelaide )
I woke up at 9 am I did the breakfast at the hostel with my British roommate and then I went to the Adelaide Market expecting something nice but not really, probably my favourite there will be always the one in Cairns. The I catch the tram to Hallett Cove which it takes around an hour and I did all the coastal boardwalk that was really cool and scenic passing by the loft as well and then I catch the train in the way back, I stoped at Hungry Jacks for lunch and I went to the hostel to sleep. Till 7 pm when I started to get ready to work at 8 pm till, it was really nice because I met one of my colleague from Melbourne but unfortunately the club is closing at 5 am pretty late so I was very tired.
DAY 23 – Saturday 06.03.21
( Night at: Tequila Sunrise Hostel, Adelaide )
( Adelaide, South Australia )
I woke up around 12 am, I went to the McDonald’s for lunch and the I went to the Jucy Car Rental company which I tried to organise the way back to Melbourne because Thursday I have to work. But it was basically impossible because all the car were booked and the price increased a lot so I didn’t know what to do anymore my plan changed again because I really wanted to see the twelves Apostles but it seems impossible. The only chance is book a bus to go back to Melbourne and next week do a day tour to the twelve Apostles. So I couldn’t figured it out anything and I come back to sleep a little bit. Then before 8 pm I went to work at Crazy Horse and I worked there till 5 am.
DAY 24 – Sunday 07.03.21
( Night at: Tequila Sunrise Hostel, Adelaide )
( Fringe Festival at Rymill Park, Adelaide )
I woke up at 11 am I booked a car with Imoova even if I wasn’t very sure about it because it could be kind of risky with the insurance and I don’t wanna have troubles but looks like the only chance. Then I went out for a lunch at the Luigi Delicatessen it was a really lovely lunch which I totally needed after all this organisation that looks impossible. After I come back in the Hostel to sleep a little bit and then before the sunset I went to the Fringe to eat a Fish and Chip by myself and see what this festival was about because everyone was talking about it and yes it was pretty nice good vibes but could be better if I was with friends after I come back to the Hostel to sleep.
DAY 25 – Monday 08.03.21
( Night at: Tequila Sunrise Hostel, Adelaide )
( Botanical Garden, Adelaide )
I woke up pretty early I did the breakfast at the hostel and then I went for a walk to the botanical garden, it was very nice I like it and I walk pretty a lot and I found a solution to come back to Melbourne because a car to rent has been available with Jucy Car Rental so I can leave tomorrow Adelaide and be in Melbourne Thursday to work, do all those km by myself I was a bit afraid that I couldn’t do it but then I realise that was the only chance so I could visit the last things around Adelaide and I can see the twelve apostles also, that is something that I really wanted to see it. After the botanical garden I come back to the hostel I changed and I went to The Moseley Beach Club to enjoy the last night in Adelaide and almost the end of this amazing month of travelling around Australia. Once I come back to the hostel I prepared everything for the day after and I went to sleep.
DAY 26 – Tuesday 09.03.21
( Night at: Car Park in Meningie, South Australia )
( Victor Harbour, South Australia )
I woke up pretty early I went to the Jucy Car Rental at 9 am to pick up the car stopped at the groceries to buy something to eat for the long drive and then I went back to the hostel to put all my belongings to the car and I drove to D’Arenberg to do a wine degustation, starting this crazy adventures to come back in Melbourne in only two days because due to the festival was very impossible rent a car. The second stop was at the Down the rabbit hole Wines, such a lovely atmosphere I totally loved it and enjoyed I could stayed there all day but I had to keep driving till Victor Harbour that was also a place that I really wanted to visit, and from there I took a walk till Granite Island to relax a bit and than I drove to Meningie and from there I drove to Coorong National Park which it was pretty nice during the sunset but was very in the middle of nowhere without any Cravan Park to sleep during the night but well I keep driving during the night but after one hour I realise that maybe I couldn’t do it till the next gasoline spot so I got very afraid an I was in the middle of nowhere alone so I decided to come back in Meningie which I was sure that there was a gasoline station and I had enough gasoline to come back there even if I still didn’t know where to sleep. So I drove for one hour or more back to Meningie I couldn’t find Caravan Park open because it was too late obviously so I decided to sleep in a random Car Park next to the sea where there were two other Camper. I was a bit afraid to get a fined but I could’t do anything else, I was very tired and exhausted.
DAY 27 – Wednesday 10.03.21
( Night at: The Village Hostel, Melbourne )
( Twelve Apostles during the sunset, Victoria )
I woke up very early around 7 am I put the fuel in the car and I started to drive again on the way that I ddi last night same road, basically I drove all day it was very challenging because I did probably 800km on the famous Ocean Road but driving in Australia is different than Europe because is very relaxing the road are very good and there no traffic at all the only danger are the kangaroos around and other animals. After driving all morning I stopped for a lunch at The Passage in Port Fairy where I did a little break and then I keep driving because I wanted to see the Twelve Apostles before the sunset. Fist stop was at Loch Arc Gorge which it was absolutely scenic I loved it and also driving in that area was spectacular and finally I arrived at the Twelve Apostles which I stopped there a bit for the sunset taking photos and enjoyed it as much as I could and then I drove back to Melbourne in the dark so I could’t really enjoyed all the drive but well it was very nice anyway and I arrived in Melbourne around 11 pm I was very very tired totally destroyed by the long they I parked the car in from of the Hostel I did the check in and I went to sleep immediately.
DAY 28 – Thursday 11.03.21
( Night at: The Village Hostel, Melbourne )
( Franklin Street, Melbourne CBD )
I woke up at 8 am to bring back the car at the Jucy Car company around 9 am, I took a fine unfortunately even if I thought that I could park the car till 9 am, I was a bit unlucky. Then I took the car back at the Car rental in St. Kilda and then I took the tram to come back to the Hostel and I went to sleep all afternoon to be ready for the night at work.
Easter in Tasmania 2021
( My new home Australia )
For the Ester Holidays 2021 while I was living in Melbourne I decided to go in Tasmania for days since the Covid-19 situation in Melbourne was good and Tasmania as well and was possible travel. So I booked the flight for Tuesday 30th of March at 10:20 and the way back on the 8th of April at 3:05 both flight with Jetstar to Hobart which is only 1 hour of flight.
DAY 1 – Tuesday 30.03.21
( Night at: Narrara Backpackers, Hobart )
( Landing in Tasmania with Jetstar )
I worked the night before so I went to sleep around 5 am and at 7 am I woke up to take the tram to come to the airport for my flight that was at 10:45 and landed at 12pm in Hobart I was more then tired well I slept on the plane but definitely it wasn’t enough because I was also a little bit sick since the winter is coming I was totally sick without voice so I was also kind of scared that in the airport they were saying something since I have to look healthy due to this COVID-19 so I pass the controls at the airport the I took the bus to the city and I immediately went to the bedroom to sleep as much as I could and taking the medicine. Then I woke up at 6 pm totally sick but I decided to go around the city a little bit and trying to organise everything but I had literally no energy I watched the sunset at the harbour I went to the supermarket and I come back to the hostel to call my mum a bit and I went to sleep again taking medicine and hoping that the day after I could feel better. I tried to organise everything for those days since I have the tour departing on Saturday so I organised Bruny Island, Port Arthur and for Friday the Mona Museum but unfortunately the canceled the tour in Bruny Island for the next day so I canceled as well Port Arthur and the day after I will visit Richmond village then Bruny Island and Friday the MONA Museum.
DAY 2 – Wednesday 31.03.21
( Night at: Narrara Backpackers, Hobart )
( Richmond village bridge )
I woke up kind of early around 8 am I did the breakfast and I went to the tourist information office to try to go to Port Arthur today but definitely it wasn’t possible so the day suggested me to go to Richmond taking the city bus at 10 am so I did it and I went there well is a really small village absolutely nice, the Main Street with all the local little shops and the famous bridge where I went there and I relax under the sun a bit. Then I walk till the Pooley Wines where I stopped for the lunch I didn’t do any wine tasting because I was really sick I just eat a cheese board platter under the sun and then at 2 pm I went to take the bus. Well I was very sick so once I come back in Hobart I went to the Hostel to sleep and relax because I was feeling very sick unfortunately and then the day after I do have the tour at 7:30 am so I went to sleep very early.
DAY 3 – Thursday 01.04.21
( Night at: Narrara Backpackers, Hobart )
( HIBA’s 50 acres of private English )
Bruny Island: Full-Day Food and Wine Tour from Hobart with Pennicott’s.
I supposed to do the Bruny Island the day before and today Port Arthur but the Bruny Island tour got cancelled so I decided to skip Port Arthur and still do Mona Museum on Friday which I though was something really nice knowing the popularity of the Museum. So today I woke up at 6;30 am and I walk to the harbour to catch the tout to Bruny Island that depart at 7:30 am. Those is in brefing what did I see on the day and what I’ve done.
“Explore Bruny Island’s spectacular landscapes, gourmet produce, and inspiring locals on a small group tour of around 20 passengers, plus your knowledgeable local guide. Tours depart daily from Hobart harbour. Relax and enjoy this fully inclusive experience showcasing the best of Bruny Island. Try cheeses, oysters, fudge, premium wines, honey and whisky. Meet some of the island’s artisan producers, people who put their energy and spirit into handcrafting these renowned products. Stop for a delicious lunch at Pennicott’s beachside restaurant with sweeping views of Adventure Bay. Throughout the day you’ll see incredible scenery. At The Neck, see the narrow isthmus stretch away south in graceful curves. Take a stroll and leave your footprints in the sand of a deserted beach.The light bush of the northern island gives way to the dense rainforest of the south’s Mavista Rainforest – a pristine environment home to diverse wildlife including rare white wallabies.Your return ferry crossing departs at 16:30 for a 17:00 arrival in Kettering, followed by a short 30-minute drive back to Hobart, where hotel drop offs are available on request.”
- Hand made fudge and local honey at Bruny Island Honey
- World class whisky at Bruny Island Chocolate Co.
- Entry to the Bligh Museum
- Cheese and hand crafted ale at Bruny Island Cheese and Beer Co.
- The Neck Lookout
- Lunch at Pennicott’s beachside restaurant including shucked oysters and two glasses of wine
- Exclusive tour of HIBA’s 50 acres of private English and native gardens
- Rain Forest Mavista Picnic Area & Walking Track
After the tour I’ve met two girls one Aussie from Perth and the other one form Sydney but originally from Korea, and we went out for a drink next to the Salamanca Market where there a lot of nice little bars and restaurants we went at Grape Food and Wine Bar which we had fun and they were really nice and friendly then I come back to the hostel to sleep.
DAY 4 -Friday 02.04.21
( Night at: Narrara Backpackers, Hobart )
( Mona – Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart )
I woke up at 7:30 am get ready and I went for a breakfast with the Aussie girl that I’ve meet yesterday on the tour since she booked the Mona Museum at 10 am like me we decided to do it together we met at the Cafe Lola for a breakfast and then we catch the ferry at 9:15 am to go to the Mona Museum actually my expectations were pretty high because everyone is talking about it and it seems something kind of special or unique but it wasn’t definitely in three hours we have seen everything basically okay it wasn’t bad but a normal modern museum that in Europe we have thousand of those. So around 12 pm we catch the ferry to come back already and we went for a lunch at Mures Restaurant since it was a sunny and lovely day and then we went for an ice cream, but I was really tired and a bit sick from the past days so after I come back to the Hostel to sleep a bit and then I met the girls in the evening again for the dinner and few drinks same as yesterday we went in the Salamanca area precisely at Cargo Bar Pizza. After quite long time was my first Friday night without working and out so I really enjoyed been out in company and drink.
Tour around Tasmania of 5 DAYS with Jumps Tour
Day 1 – Saturday 03.04.21
( Night at : Jump Holiday House, Tullah )
( Russell Falls, Mount Field National Park )
I woke up very early to get ready for the tour and the came to pick me at The Pickled Frog which is an hostel next of the one where I was staying. When the bus came I jump on and I immediately met Penny an Aussie girl very friendly that she was also travelling alone, then we picked up three Indian girl very nice all of them and at the end two friend one five generation Fiji but background Indian and the other Chinese, well seven girl well mixed and our tour guide Tasmanian. Your tour begins with the pristine world heritage wilderness of Mount Field National Park. See beautiful Russell Falls and walk among some of the tallest trees on earth! As you go, look out for the cute Tasmanian Pademelons hopping around, they’re unique to Tasmania. Later stop for lunch with a view at Australia’s deepest lake, Lake St Clair. Before getting there we bought a sandwich at the Hungry Wombat Cafe. Then, head to Donaghy’s Hill for more incredible views that stretch in all directions. See the quartzite peak of Frenchmans Cap, and iconic Franklin River winding its way through the valley below. Then we stopped at the Rosebay village to do same groceries and then we went to the village where we were staying called Tullah we had dinner at the Tavern there and then we went to sleep pretty early because everyone was tired from the day.
DAY 2 – Sunday Easter 04.04.21
( Night at: Jump Holiday House, Tullah )
( All seven girl at the Henty Dunesrunning and playing with the sand )
We woke up around 7 am get ready and we went for a breakfast at the Tullah Cottage Cafe which it was really nice and it kind of feel Ester for real even if it’s I don’t even know how many years that I don’t celebrate it at home anymore. Your day starts with a walk through lush rainforest along the path of an old railway. Your destination? Montezuma Falls – Tasmania’s highest waterfall. For lunch, stop at the beautiful fishing town of Strahan. Immerse yourself in the beauty and history of what was one of the most remote outposts of the British Empire. Then, it’s just a short drive to Henty Dunes where you’ll spend the rest of the day. Climb to the top for a wonderful view across the Southern Ocean and an awesome photo experience! Then we did a quick stop at Queenstown to buy something for the night because we decided to do a barbecue all together at the Jump Holiday House. In fact when we come back we started to drink and cook all together it was very nice I enjoyed a lot and after eating we went next to the fire that our tour guide made it and we cooked marshmallow and talking, drinking together all night.
DAY 3 – Monday 05.04.21
( Night at: Launceston Backpackers )
( All together at Cradle Mountain )
We woke up same pretty early me and Penny that we were living in the same room shower and get ready and then we went again in the Tullah Cottage Cafe which it was just in front of the road then we started the day. This morning it’s all about Cradle Mountain! With the whole morning here, you’ll have the chance to choose from a range of hikes and activities. No matter what, this is an adventure you’ll never forget. It was really nice kind of hard but totally worth it we walked till Marions Lookout which is not the highest but the view is amazing. On the way back when we were almost ready to jump back on the bus we had the opportunity to see few Wombats which they were very lovely and see them in the wildlife is an unique experience. You’ll have worked up an appetite – so stop for lunch in Sheffield – the town of murals. Artists from across the world have contributed artwork to this cute little town. We stopped for lunch at Sheffield Hotel where they do have great meals.Later, it’s onto Launceston. Head to Cataract Gorge, a stunning natural attraction in the heart of the city that’s worth a look! then we went to the Hostel we did the check in and we get ready to grout because it ll be the last night of two girls because their tour was only of 3day not 5 days. We went to theSaint John Craft Beer Bar which we spent the night there drinking, eating and talking it was a very nice evening.
DAY 4 – Tuesday 06.04.21
( Night at: Seaview at Bicheno )
( Cosy Corner at Bay of Fires, Bicheno )
Woke up at 7:30 am get ready and have a breakfast all together at the Cuccina Cafe, with Valerie and Barbara as well they join us and then we left Launceston on the bus only us five girls. First we stopped at Bridport Sugar n’s Spice Bakery in the direction of the Little blue lake that it was amazing I never saw a lake like that before in my life actually. Then, we did a little stop to get a taste for Tassie’s local produce as you sample the cheesy delights of the Pyengana Dairy Company. In the afternoon it’s time for the highlight of the day – the stunning Bay of Fires. With some of the whitest sand and clearest water you’ll ever see, take your time to explore the beach or maybe take a swim. We had a lunch on the beach and we enjoyed the time there precisely at the Cosy Corner.In the evening head to your accommodation in the seaside town of Bicheno. We did the check in it was a really nice place me and Penny we definitely liked our room and then we went out for the dinner in a fish restaurant called Tasmanian Coastal Seafoods and then we come back early to sleep because we were pretty tired.
DAY 5 – Wednesday 07.04.21
( Night at: Montacute Bouique Hostel, Hobart )
( Me at the East Coast Natureworld surrounded by Wallaby’s )
We woke up around 7 am getting ready for the last day of the tour and going back to Hobart. We had a breakfast in Bicheno at the Blue Edge Bakery. This morning, you’ll have the option to check out animals at East Coast Natureworld, a popular wildlife sanctuary. Arrive at feeding time at 10 am for the Tasmanian devils, wombats, kangaroos, koalas and many more animals that call the park home! It was amazing because I had the opportunity to see the albino Wallaby which is typical from Bruny Island but I haven’t saw it there. I could feed them and touch them, the had seven albino Wallaby amazing experience. Next, it’s time to pack a picnic lunch as you set off to another Tassie icon – the sparkling waters of Wineglass Bay in Freycinet National Park. There’s a tough walk to be had here, but you’ll be rewarded with fantastic views from the lookout. We did the walk till the lookout and down to the beach it was very beautiful and fortunately the weather was fantastic. This afternoon, travel down the scenic Great Eastern Drive back to Hobart with a stop in Triabunna for an ice-cream. We stopped at the airport where we dropped-off the three Indian girls that they were flying back to Melbourne in the evening and then we head to Hobart city where our guide drops me off at the Hostel. I did the check in and I get ready to go to drink and eat something with Penny that she was staying one more night as well in Hobart. We met around 7:30 pm down in the city and we went at the Telegraph Hotel we enjoyed the drink and the food and then we said goodbye and we come back in the Hostels.
LAST DAY IN TASMANIA – Thursday 08.04.21
(Night at: The Village Hostel, Melbourne )
( View to Hobart from the Mount Wellington )
I woke up kind of early at 7:30 am I got ready and I went down to the city to catch the bus at 9am to do the Mount Wellington two hour trip which is an organised tour, the weather wasn’t the best but the little trip was very nice I definitely enjoyed the experience and so I could have seen almost everything in Tasmania. Then around mid day the bus left me back in the city and I went to the Perl Bar and I had few oysters which there are mazing the one in Tasmania I loved them and I had a glass of wine, a sparkling rose which I love it as well. Then I come back in the hostel I took my things and I went to take the bus to the airport that is at 3:05 pm because I have to come back to Melbourne to work in the night.
Road trip Australia 2021 ( VIC+NSW+ACT )
16 DAYS OF TRAVELLING
It wasn’t really the plan well, but as usual the lockdown happened so all my plan changed. So for my birthday in July I wanted to go to Sydney to celebrate a bit and then do a road trip going back to Melbourne passing by Canberra and Thredbo but it was impossible because the second lockdown of the 2021 happened so my only chance was to go now to Sydney try to work there a bit and then visit Canberra work there as well, then enjoy the mountains in New South Wales and coma back to Melb.
( Thredbo Village in New South Wales )
DAY 1 – Wednesday 09.06.21
( Night at: Ignenia Holidays Avina, Vineyard )
I woke up at 4:30 am getting ready to leave Melbourne, the driver Glenn came to pick me up at the Hostel at 5 am as we decided the day before, at the same time also my Chinese roommate Yvonne was leaving to go back to China so we said good bye and we left our room number 401 on the fourth floor of The Village Hostel. So I jumped on the car with the driver and we went to take the proper car with the dog trail just a bit out of Melbourne, than we drove to Geelong were we did the first stop at the house fo David the guy that contact me on Facebook unless the owner of the Woofer Pet Transport and he gave us the first dog which is a greyhound puppy. After we did one more stop in Geelong and then we went in the opposite side of Melbourne at Nar Nar Goon where we picked up a puppy French bulldog of only 8 weeks, after finally we could leave Melbourne for real around 10 am which it was pretty late honestly. Then we stopping a farm to collect seven puppies in Waaia after Shepperton and then after that we went to Albury were we stopped for lunch at 4 pm in the motorway actually a bit after Albury precisely at Lavington and we collect and other puppy French bulldog of three months. Then we keep driving till Crowa where we dropped of the puppy Greyhound that David give it to us the first dog that we picked up. The way started to be really long Glenn he started to get tired and bored, then we had also few fornitures that he was transporting that they weren’t fixed well so few times we stopped to block them, and also started to rain a lot and we were going to the mountains in the middle of no where in NWS so it was definitely an adventure and we realise that we could be in Syd around 2 am after all day drinking which it was too much, but Glenn he will stop to sleep before SDY in Vineyard where he suggested me to stop there to sleep as well because they have a spare room, David approved my stayed there as well and he willl drop me off the day after in SYD. Since we were getting boring we stopped on the way in a pub to buy same beer to drink on the even if it’s not really allowed. After other hours of driving we stopped at Wallerawang to drop off the French bulldog of three months and then we drop off the 8 weeks puppy French Bulldog around mid night. Before we went to Vineyard we started to drink a bit to celebrate Glenn birthday, and yes it was his birthday, it was fun drinking smoking and listening to the music with the dogs on the back that they were a bit noisy. Finally 1:30 am we arrived at Ignenia Holidays Avina which is a caravan park with little bungalow, I’ve got my own room double bed which it was fantastic but unfortunately the alarm will be at 7 am.
DAY 2 – Thursday 10.06.21
( Night at: Sydney Backpackers Hostel )
I woke up at 7 am getting ready to hit the road again and do few pick up and drop off in the area and then Glenn will drop off me. First we went to Richmond to pick up a Greyhound dog and then to Agnes Banks to pick up again an other Greyhound adult dog. Then we went to Ryde and we dropped off the seven Cavoodles puppys and we picked up other two. And then was the time ti said goodbye to Glenn that he dropped me off at the train station and I jumped on the train that it took around an hour to arrived in Town Hall were I get off and I went to do the check in at the Sydney Backpackers Hostel in Town Hall definitely in the heart of the CBD. Once I did the check in I just went straight to my bedroom a six female room and I straight slept till 6 am. Then when I woke up I was still over tired from the trip it was a really exhausted day but I had to go to work so I went to Mcdonald I eat something and I went to work at Men’s Gallery, till 3 am.
DAY 3 – Friday 11.06.21
( Night at: Sydney Backpackers Hostel )
( Inside of the Queen Victoria building, Sydney )
I slept all morning then around 1 am I woke up, I made myself ready and I went for lunch at the Esquire restaurant in the Victoria building which it was amazing I forgot what the good life was after sprain my ankle and only working. But still I was very tired and I just went back to the hostel to sleep till 6 pm that I went to the Woolly to buy something to eat before going to work which I started the shift at 7 pm. Tonight at work there is also Havana my friend from Melbourne that she could come over because in Victoria they ease the Covid restriction so we worked together it was nice see her again and work together.
DAY 4 – Saturday 12.06.21
( Night at: Sydney Backpackers Hostel )
( Town Hall with the rainbow flag for the Pride month )
I woke up early at 8 am and I got ready to go to the dentist at 10 am which it was very early but I have to go, she did the cleaning and she check all my teeth which they are pretty bad honestly. After I went for lunch at McDonald and then I slept all noon till 7 pm which I went to holly again and I went to the club to work at 8 pm. Same as yesterday fortunately there was my friend Havana which we worked as a team and was very fun honestly and I went back home at 4 am.
DAY 5 – Sunday 13.06.21
( Night at: Sydney Backpackers Hostel )
( Opera House building in Sydney )
I woke up around mid day and I went for a walk around Darling Harbour which it was really great a sunny day with summer vibes I definitely loved it a lot, but I couldn’t find a place to eat because Sunday everywhere was pretty busy unfortunately so I went to Hungry Jacks to eat something and then I come back to sleep for a bit and around 7 pm I started to get ready and I went to work before to try to get more money because I supposed to work at 10 pm but it was very busy since the day after will be public holiday due to the Queen’s birthday. So this was the last night of work in Sydney and I did alone because Havana she went to clubbing.
DAY 6 – Monday 14.06.21
( Night at: Sydney Backpackers Hostel )
( Oyster aperitif in The Living Room at Park Hyatt Sydney )
I tried to woke up king of early around mid day basically and I got ready to visit The ground of Alexandria which is really famous and I never been there. It was nice but lee than what looks like on Instagram honestly and I could’t find a spot to eat so eat at McDonald’s and then I come back to the Hostel rest a little bit and make myself ready to have a night out. First I went to drink at The living room in the Park Hyatt Home in Sydney which it was amazing the the oyster were delicious. After the aperitif I went to have a diner at 6HEADS restaurant which is pretty famous and I really wanted to try it, I enjoy it a lot honestly and then I walk around the Sydney harbour to contemplate the places the harbour, the bridge, the opera house. Everything simply just amazing I love Sydney so much honestly I wish I could live there one day again maybe.
DAY 7 – Tuesday 15.06.21
( Night at: Sydney Backpackers Hostel )
( Sea urchin, trout roe and avruga tart. Dinner at Hubert restaurant in Sydney )
I woke up early and and at mid day I went to the Tea Room for the breakfast and then at 2:45 pm I went to the dentist again in Estwood where she has her office. Then I come back in the city and I did a bit of shopping at H&M for the evening, which I come back in the hostel I get ready and I went out for a dinner at Hubert restaurant which it was absolutely amazing probably my favourite restaurant in Sydney I loved it.
DAY 8 – Wednesday 16.06.21
( Night at: Sydney Backpackers Hostel )
( Tamara Beach, Sydney )
I Woke up early and I tooth train and then the bus to go to Bronte Beach which I never been because when I was living in Sydney was raining most of the time and I was focused on working actually so I didn’t really travel around honestly. When I arrived in Bronte I immediately went to Bronte Bath which it was really nice I loved the summer vibes around, I tried as well the water, obviously was very cold even if few person were swimming or surfing.Later I walk up north till Tamara Becah which it was as well spectacular with an amazing beach with a very clean water and then I keep walk till Bondi which I stepped for few photos at the Bondi Icebeg that are amazing and then I walked along the Bech till the opposite side which I arrived at The Depot where I stopped for a brunch which I loved it was very nice. Then I went to the Westfield in Bondi Junction to buy a new luggage because the backpack wasn[‘t enough after the shopping and not really comfortable. I went back to the hostel in the evening planning to work or go out but I was too tired that I just lied in the bed and I went to sleep. And I planned to escape from Sydney because the found one Covid case which it could be already a lot for Australia so going to Canberra it will be the safest solution and wait for Melbourne to reopen.
DAY 9 – Thursday 17.06.21
( Night at: YHA Hostel, Canberra )
( morning walk in the Sydney Harbour with the bridge view )
I woke up pretty early I organised everything and before 10 am I did the check out and left the luggage in the Hostel, and I took the tram to Circular Quay which is the Sydney Harbour and I walk around there, till the Opera House to enjoy the last day I Sydney. I was fabulous not to cold and sunny with no people around so peaceful that I loved it even more then used and I could enjoy the atmosphere. I did the breakfast at Guylian Belgian Chocolate Cafe very lovely and then I went back to Town Hall and I walk to Darling Harbour again and finally I could stop at the Niki’s restaurant for lunch which it wasn’t that busy as Sunday and I could find a table that I liked to enjoyed the summer vibes withe the harbour view. After I come back to the hostel I take my luggage and I went to the Greyhound Bus stop to wait the bus to go to Canberra at 3 pm, it was kind of a long way actually well basically four hours on the bus because I arrived in Canberra at 7 pm. I went straight to the hostel I did the check in and left everything there and I stopped at the supermarket in front of the Hostel to grab something to eat and then I call Uber to go to the Club which is kind of far away from the city. I supposed to met the owner at 8 pm but I arrived a bit in late, he did me a quick induction and then I got ready to go on the floor and at 3 am I went back home, it was alright not many rules I liked it but it was very quiet.
DAY 10 – Friday 18.06.21
( Night at: YHA Hostel, Canberra )
( At the Hostel organising everything to go to the mountains in the next days )
I woke up kind of early and I went to the information poi to have few more information regarding the tours to go to the mountain but I could’t find anything that I really wanted because as usual everything stop working due to the Covid pandemic that there are no more tourist in the country. But anyway I found a solution get to the mountain with a a Greyhound bus and sty there two night that was the minimum requested for the YHA Hostel in Thredbo. After organising everything I eat something mine while and then I went to sleep a bit til 6:30 pm that I get ready to go to work at 7 pm, it was terrible very quiet but I had no choices I already decided to stay few days in Canberra but never again to work.
DAY 11 – Saturday 19.06.21
( Night at: YHA Hostel, Canberra )
( In front of the Canberra Centre, ACT )
Basically I just slept all day because I couldn’t sleep the night before so I just rest and then I got ready to go to work again at 8 pm even if I was absolutely not motivated and in fact wasn’t very busy and a bit after 3 am I left because I was really done wth that place honestly even if the people and the management were nice it was impossible make money.
DAY 12 – Sunday 20.06.21
( Night at: YHA Hostel, Canberra )
( the War Memorial monument, Canberra )
I’ve tried to wake up early and get ready to eat something at Gus’s Place for brunch which I really like it and then I started to discover Canberra, which I took the bus and I went to the Australian War Memorial which it was very interesting actually, I liked it and the building was massive just facing the Australian Parliament for km aways very monumental. After I walked around a little bit in the city but isn’t something amazing anyway I liked it even if it was very cold, freezing. I get ready in the hostel to go out for a dinner and basically the only place open on Sunday ask the Monster Restaurant at the Ovolo Hotels which is something that I really wanted to visit because I liked the photos that I previously saw of the build and look really particular. Regarding the restaurant it was okay well I’m not anymore vegetarian and this was a vegetarian restaurant so I didn’t really enjoyed personally even if everything was delicious but I prefer most the environment honestly. After I went back to the Hostel and I called my mum a bit because due to the escape and the work I didn’t really had the time to speak wit her.
DAY 13 – Monday 21.06.21
( Night at: YHA Hostel, Canberra )
( New Australian Parliament House, Canberra )
I worked up around 9 am in the hostel room with the fire alarm that was ringing, well not the best way to woke up but anyway, so I get ready and I went to do the winter shopping at the Canberra Centre which I bought The North Face winter jacket and then a pair of Levi’s just because I’m running out of jeans. After I did a bit of groceries, well I had a lunch at the hostel and then I took the bus and I went to the Parliament House it was a really nice experience I went inside of the new and the old Parliament that they are facing each others. I walk through the Questacon – National Science and Technology Centre which I couldn’t get in due to the sold out tickets the I went to the Australian Museum when I tried to enter I realised that I left the locked open in my hostel room so I catch an Uber quickly and I went to the hostel, fortunately everything was there, I was very lucky. So then I started to get ready to go out for a dinner. Today for a dinner I wanted to try a fine dining restaurant in Canberra which it calls Courgette Restaurant, well it was amazing really nice experience and this restaurant life I really started to like it. Then I just come back to the hostel to sleep because anyway there is nothing to do to in Canberra after dinner.
DAY 14 – Tuesday 22.06.21
( Night at: YHA Hostel, Thredbo Village NSW )
( Thredbo Village, New South Wales )
I woke up at 9 am I prepare everything and at 10 am I did the check out, I did the breakfast in the Hostel and then I went to catch the bus to go to the mountains in Thredbo at 11:15 am. The run to the Village will take about four hours but the scenario was very good I liked it and in the middle of the way we also did a stop. The I arrived in Thredbo at 3 pm, I went immediately to the Hostel to do the check in and drop off the luggage and then I went around to explore the village. I walk around, taking few photos and I took my first hot chocolate in Australia with cream and marshmallow it was delicious. Then I went back to the hostel because gets dark pretty soon, and then I get ready to go out for a dinner at Black Bear Inn which it was very nice I loved it, very delicious food.
DAY 15 – Wednesday 23.06.21
( Night at: YHA Hostel, Thredbo Village NSW )
( Merritts Gondola in Thredbo Village NSW )
I woke up at 8 am I got ready and I went around to take few photos in the village, then I grab a breakfast at the ski station and at 11 am I took the Merritts Gondola to go up to the mountain where everyone is skiing there, but there is also a restaurant where I stopped there obviously for an hot chocolate because it was very freezing over cold. Then in the early afternoon I went down to the Village I took few more photos around but the started to rain so I had to go back to the Hostel where I just chilled and relax a bit before going hot for the dinner. Tonight for the dinner I changed the place I went to the Candlelight Lodge which I could really feel the mountain atmosphere in the restaurant of tonight but as well at the one of yesterday night, I really appreciate the mountain vibes.
DAY 16 – Thursday 24.06.21
( Night at: YHA Hostel, Canberra )
( Thredbo Village, New South Wales )
I woke up around 9 am I packed everything and I did the check out at 10 am. Unfortunately it still rain from yesterday I was very unlucky because online the weather was supposed to snow actually not to rain but is gravely raining from yesterday and probably all day. So I just run to the Bakery in the main square to grab the last hot chocolate and something to eat and then I went back to the hostel just chilling and writing in the living room waiting for the bus at 4:30 pm to go back to Canberra. I really liked the mountain atmosphere even if there wasn’t a lot snow and even if I couldn’t really enjoyed the three days due to the rain but I kind of missed the mountain and the snow. It was a long time without being in the mountain actually well the winter before coming to Australia I didn’t really see the snow because I was living in Paris a bit the winter before when I was in Italy I saw the snow but not too much honestly. So it was really nice experience and I want to learn how to ski or snowboarding just to try a new sport in my life and probably I have to do it now this it could be the good occasion maybe in the mountains in Victoria. At 4:30 pm I took the bus to go back to Canberra and I arrived at 19:50 pm and I went back to the Hostel were I was staying before at the YHA in the City which I booked it for one night, and I went immediately to sleep tired of all the travelling.
DAY 17 – Friday 25.06.21
( National Portrait Gallery, Canberra )
I woke up kind of early around 9 am and I went to Gus’s place to do the breakfast and then I took the bus to go to visit the National Portrait Gallery which I haven’t do it few days ago, it was really nice visit again a Gallery and see a bit of art honestly and after I went to the National Gallery of Australia which it very very interesting and quite huge as well, definitely liked the day experience. After I come back to the Hostel I picked up my luggage and I order Uber to go to the airport that at 6:40 pm I do have my flight with virgin to go back to Melbourne and to work at the night since is Friday.
Lockdown 5.0 escaping July 2021 ( TAS+SA+QLD+VIC )
13 DAYS OF TRAVELLING
Here we are again is the 15th of July just after my 26th birthday, I just finished to celebrate it and here we are again and other lockdown is happening, time to pack everything quick and leave Melbourne ASAP. Fifth time that I’m escaping from a lockdown, I used to call my post “travel” but most of them aren’t a real planned travel I just to and advantage on the lockdown situation to travel that’s it actually.So this time again everything was going well in Melbourne I just had a lockdown break in June been in Sydney and Canberra a bit of winter vacation was great and now I just wanted to focus on working till Christmas but nothing it was impossible. On the 15th of July the state of Victoria declared an other lockdown. So I just tried to escape as much as I cloud, trying to keep working and have a normal life.
5TH TIME ESCAPING FROM A LOCKDOWN SINCE I’M IN AUSTRALIA
DAY 1 – Thursday 15.07.2021
( Night at: YHA Central Hobart )
( Tullamarine airport waiting for my Qantas flight to Hobart )
Thursday I woke up that I already knew it that we were going into a lockdown in fact the night before I already pack my luggage so when I woke up I just had to do the last things I went to the club to take my things and then I went to the bank and I prepare everything and left few things in the hostel because I can’t carry all my staff with me and then I want for the lockdown announcement which they did it at 5 pm and I wait as well for the message of m manger because I supposed to work at the night. Once I receive the confirm that we were going in lockdown at midnight I just order an Uber to the airport, thinking to go to Brisbane to visit my friend Laura and enjoy the good weather but unfortunately there were no more flight available or just over expensive and it was a totally chaos, the only chance was looking at the Qantas website waiting for a flight that I might be available updating the page, so I did it and I found the flight to Hobart available, so I just panicked and I tied to buy it, it was very expensive honestly but I didn’t wanted to go back to the Hostel so I decided to buy and try to go to Hobart. At 8:30 pm I took the flight which landed at 9:45 pm, from there I took and Uber to the YHA Central Hostel.
DAY 2 – Friday 16.07.2021
( Night at: YHA Central Hobart )
( Hobart waterfront, Tasmania )
I woke up early, happy that I escape from the lockdown and then I went to the groceries to buy something to eat and I stayed all day in the bedroom relax and chill, try to understand what to do, if I could work in Hobart or not and when I realised that was impossible work in Hobart I decided to leave the day after because Saturday it’s aways a good to make money so I bought the flight to Adelaide. Than I went a little bit around Hobart trying to enjoy the last night there so I went out for a dinner in a nice place called The Lounge by Frogmore Creek to eat some oysters which I think that in Tasmania are the best, it was really lovely been out for a dinner and than I come back to the Hostel to sleep. I didn’t wanna do a lot in Hobart because is really cold and I’ve been there just three months ago and I already visited everything basically.
DAY 3 – Saturday 17.07.2021
( Night at: YHA Central Adelaide )
( Fling from Hobart to Adelaide with Qantas )
I woke at 7 am I got ready and I went to take bus around 8 am that takes me to the airport, I did the breakfast at the airport and then at 10:20 am landed in Melbourne at 11:35 am I landed in Melbourne but just for a transfer which it was the only options and then I took the second plane at 12:35 pm and I landed in Adelaide 1:25 pm. I took the bus to the YHA Hostel which I did the check in and I went straight to sleep all noon till 6 pm that I got ready to work all night.
DAY 4 – Sunday 18.07.2021
( Night at: YHA Central Adelaide )
( The view from the window in the YHA Hostel, Adelaide )
I woke up very in late totally destroyed and a bit in hangover due to the long night of the day before but I got ready and I went to work at 7:30 pm, I just grab something to eat on the way and that’s it ready for an other night of work.
DAY 5 – Monday 19.07.2021
( Night at: YHA Central Adelaide )
( Bouquet of flowers, Adelaide )
I tried to wake up not too late so I went to the CBD I did a bit of groceries and I little walk around then I come back to the Hostel to sleep a bit more ad then go to work again even if the situation looks a bit tense because there were rooms that the city could stat a lockdown so I got very scared but I thought that it could be only for few days, so I went to work but at mid night the club closed and I thought that the lockdown will be only for three days so I decided to wait to work in the weekend and relax a bit in the days. After work I come back to the hostel happy to rest a bit, even if obviously I wanted to work to get as much money as I could.
DAY 6 – Tuesday 20.07.2021
( Night at: Laura’s house, Fortitude Valley )
( On the flight to go to Brisbane from Adelaide )
I woke up at 9 am totally relaxed thing about staying in Adelaide and do few days of lockdown there and go back for the weekend to work, but as soon as I told the plan to my mum the announce the lockdown for one week so I got afraid and I immediately bought a ticket to go to Brisbane, because one week of lockdown it could be too much so I pack everything I left the Hostel I took the bus to the airport and at 3:30 pm I depart with Jetstar and I landed at 6:20 om at the Brisbane airport, 3:30 pm with Jetstar and landed at 6:20 pm at the Brisbane airport, I went to take the sky train to the Central Station and from there I went to Jumbo restaurant where my friend Laura she’s working, I eat something there and then we went to her house we ordered few burgers and then we went to sleep because she has to work the day after.
DAY 7 – Wednesday 21.07.2021
( Night at: Laura’s house, Fortitude Valley )
( Fortitude Valley, Brisbane )
I woke up pretty late and I decide to go fo a walk around the city, since it was long time that I wasn’t there, I went to the supermarket so I could comeback home and cook something for the lunch which I waited for Laura to finish to work, we had a lunch together and than she had to go to work again and I decided to go to Gold Coast for an audition at the club where I worked in the past so around 5 pm I took the train to go to surfer paradise I did the audition around 8 pm and than I took immediately the train to come back to Brisbane at Laura’s house to sleep.
DAY 8 – Thursday 22.07.2021
( Night at: The bunk hostel, Gold Coast )
(Lunch at Hellenika Restaurant, Brisbane )
I woke up at 10 am with Laura she was going to work and I stayed at home arranging my things and get ready to go to Gold Coast for the weekend to work, but before I went to lunch at the Hellinika Restaurant which is something that I really wanted to do it from a long time, at the Calille Hotel the is really famous in the city. After I come back home I eat something with Laura and I took the train to Gold Coast, I arrive around 6 pm I did the check in at the hostel then I went for an aperitif with Mercedes my friend that’ve meet in Melbourne, it was so nice see her again and after I thought that I could go to work but I receive a message that I couldn’t so I just went back to the Hostel to sleep and relax.
DAY 9 – Friday 23.07.2021
( Night at: The bunk hostel, Gold Coast )
( Enjoying the summer vibes at the pool at The Island, Gold Coast )
I woke up kind of early in the morning I did anything because the weather wasn’t the best in the noon and I rest to work in the night. Before work I went to drink something with Jada a friend of Francesca that I’ve met her in Melbourne, we ha two drinks and than I went to work. It was a very bad night so I’ve decided to not come back and take those days to rest.
DAY 10 – Saturday 24.07.21
( Night at: The bunk hostel, Gold Coast )
( Sunset in Surfer Paradise )
I spent the day at the swimming pool then I walk a bit around Surfers Paradise since the weather was very good seems almost summer. I relaxed a bit and than I went to watch the sunset which it was incredible than I got ready to go for a dinner at Tropic Restaurant in Burleigh Heads with Francesca, Ana and other guys than we went at the Nineteen at the Star and later I come back home totally wasted and tired.
DAY – Sunday 25.07.2021
( Night at: Laura’s house, Fortitude Valley )
( Enoteca 1896, Brisbane )
I was totally in hangover so I pay an extra night just to sleep till 2 pm because I was very hangover and than I took the train to go back to Brisbane to Laura where we chill a bit together and than we got ready to go out for a dinner since she wasn’t working so we decided to eat Italian and we went to the restaurant where I worked before the pandemic in March 2020, at the Enoteca 1896 in south Brisbane. Once we arrived we met Desiree her brother and other Italians which those two they were with us in Mundubbera during the farm work so we decided to eat with them and we added an extra chair, it was a very nice dinner honestly. After we went to the Beats and on Sunday the do the Drag Queen shows which is alway nice and for me was ages without being in a club due to the Covid – 19 than we come back home not too late.
DAY – Monday 26/07/2021
( Night at: Laura’s house, Fortitude Valley )
( Kangaroo point, Brisbane )
I woke up kind of in late and very stressed and disappointed regarding the Covid situation waiting to go back in Melbourne, so during the day I haven’t done much just cleaning a bit and organising my things. After in the evening I went to do an aperitif with Erika at Cellare Bar near Laura’s house in the Valley and than I come back before Laura finished to work so we eat something together and than we went to sleep.
DAY – Wednesday 28.07.13
( Flying from Gold Coast to Melbourne with Jetstar )
I woke up kind of early around 9 am I got ready and I arrange all my luggage then Laura she went at work after we did the breakfast together and I went to the Kangaroo point to do the last round around Brisbane and see one more time the city and then I come back at home I took all my staff I went to Jumbo restaurant Laura’s work place and I give back the house key to she and say goodbye. After from the Central Station I took the train till Gold Coast which I have the flight to Melbourne at 17:55 pm with Jetstar, one I arrived in the airport I eat and drink something at the Blackstone Cafe and Bar than I catch the flight and I landed in Melbourne at 20:20 pm, from the airport I took the bus to The Village Hostel where I did the check in again and I went back to my room 401 after ten days around Australia trying to escape from lockdowns. I had the dinner with my room mate we ordered pizzas and we stayed in the common area to eat and chatting a bit later on I called my mum and then I went to sleep.
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