The top travel destination, for which interns and vacationers alike prepare for half a year and which none of those staying here can do without, has been a sailing tour on the largest living organism in the world for years: the Great Barrier Reef. In the heart of the Queensland Barrier Reef, the Whitsundays are made up of 74 gaping, forest-covered islands floating like jewels in the warm waters of the Coral Sea.
A race weekend as you would imagine it - in the scorching heat of 30 degrees and relentlessly few rest areas, we headed into the pit lane and worked our way through the grid from there. It was the first Indy Racing 300 event in Australia and was unanimously celebrated with a real surprise - we'll get to that in a moment.
This Friday I couldn't avoid bundling the upcoming needs of the household and spontaneously decided to take a morning off. It's not accidental that I have the time for spending some time for blog maintenance, i.e. for you.
By emptying the beach sand out of my trouser pockets and after a good shower I finally got back to civilization after we cheered goodbye to our mobile phones and electricity since 2 days on the lonely sand island Moreton Island directly in front of Brisbane's estuary waters.
As I may have mentioned from time to time, everything goes backwards when you are in Down Under. Not only is the clock time-shifted (because when you go to bed in Germany, it's really good to get up here), but also the sun is turning north, the moon is upside down and loses its sickle and...
Hello dears at home and abroad, the last few weeks have been associated with a lot of work, stress, illness, but also a refreshing pinch of travel. But that shouldn't be an excuse here, at most a serious excuse for my neglect of the beautiful life of an author here.
"Timeless continent" is regularly mentioned here on prospectuses for Australian reservations and in the timelessness it also happened that I could hardly spare the effort up to this point to write a few lines of text about the recent six-month, yes, well, it should be a holiday rather than a work stay call to write. With a few exceptions, Australians regularly finish their work on time, but only if you're not working at SAP Productive...
Common toils, wear and tears and plagues came to an end as hoped. A trip across Germany, with a backpack and a bundle of underpants, well: probably a dream I fulfilled myself during the last four days. Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart would have to be checked. What remains? Here is the final word, the conclusion so to speak, the last section of my travel diary as a small excerpt.
Who can take away the annual festival enthusiasm? A few insights into and impressions of the festival Highfield and insights from the hustle and bustle.