January 2008

Sunday, January 6, 2008

German Spin Road Bike

Week 27 - Xmas' n New year's eve in summer!

Lundi 24 décembre, ensoleillé
With Sean, Jane, Anna, Paul and his older brother, we went to the Christmas market. Paul can not help but show me everything that is typically Australian, such as iced coffee, the Tim-Tams (Australian cookies) ...
the evening, we celebrate Christmas Eve, Sean sees for the first time in his life a plastic Christmas tree.

Tuesday, December 25, sunny

All right, Father Christmas is past ...

Today is Christmas and it's summer, it's weird to see all the Christmas decorations when people go around in flip flops in the streets. For lunch, we visit the grandparents home to open gifts. I received gifts unique to Australia. With Sean, we are now real Aussies.

the afternoon we will go swimming at the Basin, a Christmas classic ...

the evening, a big meal is prepared with the whole family

Wednesday, December 26, sunny
we go again for another little adventure to Coles Bay on the east coast of Tasmania, I 've done this hike of 11km but tonight we will go to Bicheno see the penguins. After a 3 hour drive, we are at Coles Bay on the Freycinet Peninsula. After a meal on this beautiful beach, a bit of sunscreen, there is never too ...

Hazard beach in all its splendor ...

Then we are on track for this hike. A mapping error we made a detour of about 4km Hazard Beach. Fortunately we're quickly realized we were going in the direction of a 3-day trip ...

Back in the car, we head to Bicheno, it must be there before 20h because the penguins arrive on rating to sleep just after dark night. It's incredible, Australia, there are crocodiles, parrots, kangaroos and camels and penguins, all in the same country.
This is not in the highway code that you see this sign ...

We drive a little at night. We must pay attention to many Wallabies crossing the road at any time. We believe even a devil of Taman (very rare to see in nature)! we decided to find a place to spend the night. It's incredible, a Tasmanian Devil crossed in front of us, it's very rare to see in the wild.

Thursday, December 27, cloudy
We return directly at Jane through the Hungry Jacks ... Late afternoon, we play cricket, a game loved by Commonwealth countries where the rules were still very mysterious to me. In the evening, Steve, Jane's father, taught me to spot the Southern Cross in the sky, the equivalent of the pole star, but says the South.

Friday, December 28, sunny
Up at 4:30 to accompany Sean at the airport, he returned to Canada ... In the afternoon, with Jane and her father, we're going to Platipus House (House of the platypus). Interresting, showing the pictures to guide I have taken, she asked me to follow him by mail and refinished next Sunday to do more. A career as a photographer waiting for me maybe?

This is a Platipus, there is in Australia, especially in Tasmania and on the east coast of Australia ...

the evening, I explain the rules of Tarot for the whole family, not easy in English. I do not know any technical terms.

Sunday, December 30, sunny
With Jane, we return to the Platipus house to take some pictures. Not easy to make beautiful shots because it's a platypus moves all the time ...
Shelagh's mother, Jane invites us to pick cherries at a farm story tomorrow to earn some money and give back to someone.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Play Pokemon Silver Online

Week 26 - Arrival at Jane

Monday, December 17, overcast / rain
the road again and we stop at Liffey Falls, not too touristy ... lost because too
Photo "normal "

With a few adjustments ...

We continue our journey by taking the dusty red dirt tracks and then all of a sudden, I lose the speedometer, odometer any indication, I stop, look at any of the fuses blown. I continue the road, the auto gearbox does not pass the 1st and 3rd, I'm afraid that we loose ... Falcon
short, we park, we are just next to the start of the hike of Walls of Jerusalem .

Tuesday, December 18, sunny
We take the road towards where I lay Delorainne Pauline who will do the Overland Track. Here I am alone, I returned to Launceston in 3rd on the highway, this problem is not very reassuring, especially as he must take the Falcons at least we'll go 13.000Km next month ... The box remains in third in the streets mounted impossible to Launceston, thank you 4litres displacement that can climb slopes of 22% to 1500trs/min.

short, I park the car then I'm going around town, I take a shower with cataracts. That evening I decided to go to the movies today is only $ 9 instead of $ 14.50 is perfect

Wednesday, December 19, sunny
I go downtown for a little ride and read my book on a bench. Earlier this afternoon, I put a little car, then I was off to Grindelwald, a village located 20 minutes from Launceston on the Tamar River where Jane lives, an Australian friend. She stayed in Los Angeles to study last year and part of this year. So I will spend Christmas and New Year with his family. Arriving home, I was very well received by his parents, he is also Sean is there's a Canadian friend who studied a semester in Angers in 2006. It's really amazing to find all in Tasmania, we live in 4 (and 3) around the world and here we are gathered. Jane and Sean just returning from a trip to Australia.
View from the balcony ...

A spider lost on the balcony ...

Thursday, December 20, sunny

Well, I must turn my attention to the problem of the Falcon that does that odd gears. By doing some internet research, I realize that the automatic gearbox Falcon remains in third when the computer finds a fault, so it may be a simple electrical problem. Finally, I found the source of the problem: it is a sensor that was not connected, thus the box is put in "default". A small test to see that everything works perfect.

Friday, December 21, sunny
With Sean, we decide to go to Mole Creek to see the caves. We leave around 14h, a visit begins at 15:30. We arrived at 15:25, perfect. The region contains nearly 400 different caves, some were used as the opera house because of their acoustic properties.