Sunday 19th March 2017 We woke up and watched the sunrise around 6am. And then slept again…!! And woke up around 8am with the beautiful blue sky still there! We had brekky and enjoyed the silence surrounding us with the entire place to ourselves. What’s the best camping location on Earth if not the one … More Hiking Kosciuszko – Day 2
Friday 17th March 2017 We rented a car from Redspot at Sydney Domestic Airport and drove to Canberra from 7.30pm to 10.30pm. We ate some wraps we made in the car on the way using a spork and the swiss knife. Wrap recipe for an easy and quick road-trip meal: The wrap bread itself, some kiri … More Hiking Kosciuszko – Day 1
Sunday 2nd October 2016 I woke up around 6.30am, went to toilets (by toilets, I mean peeing in nature 🙂 ) and went back to sleep for a bit. It was so quiet, no one had woken up yet. None of the tents over there. Christina in her Big Agnes Fly Creek tent near mine … More Blueies Day 2 – Burra Korain to Acacia Flat
Saturday 1st October 2016 Here is the map of our journey from Manly to Blackheath, the starting point of our ‘expedition’ into the Blue Mountains. I woke up at 6am, got out of bed, dressed, brekky and then grabbed my 21-kilo backpack and started walking around 6.25am towards Manly wharf along the sea side of … More Blueies Day 1 – Victoria Falls to Burra Korain
Friday 30th September 2016 Here is the backpack checklist of what I put in my bag for 3 days hiking in the Blue Mountains. Probably still way too many things. I am still learning to optimise! Full list in photos: CARRYING – big backpack 70L – rain cover for pack (optional) – foldable small pack … More Blueies Backpack Checklist
Sunday 25th September 2016 With a 3-day week-end coming up thanks to Labour Day being on Monday 3rd October, it was time to finally make the most of a long week-end and go explore somewhere. So, with two friends from beach volley-ball, Christina from Austria and Jon from London, we decided to go hike the … More Blue Mountains 3-day hike – Preparation
Friday 18th December 2015 From Grey to Paine Grande and back to Puerto Natales I woke up around 6am. Packed the backpack, packed the tent. Went to the kitchen area to make brekky. Chatted quite a bit with Alfonso, the Canadian guy living with the German woman in California. He was shocked by the number of … More Torres del Paine Q – Day 9
Thursday 17th December 2015 Los Perros to Refugio Grey via the John Gardner Pass I stayed awake late the night before, putting all clothes into separate ziplog bags, reorganising the pack to be better prepared for the rain in case it would rain again the next day. I finally went to sleep around midnight 30 and … More Torres del Paine Q – Day 8
Wednesday 16th December 2015 Dixon to Los Perros I had not put an alarm clock and slept in and woke up around…9.30am!! I packed the backpack, it took me an hour. Then the tent, it took me 20 minutes. Then I went to the table where we had eaten the day before and had brekky there … More Torres del Paine Q – Day 7
Tuesday 15th December 2015 Seron to Dixon (18km walk) I had put the alarm clock at 6.10am but heard it only at 6.30am. It was raining outside. It took me an hour to pack the backpack in the tent. By that time, the rain had stopped. I got the backpack out and went to put … More Torres del Paine Q – Day 6
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