Finally in Australia!

Today is Friday which means we've already been here for a week. The reason we haven't posted any blog entries yet is because we've been busy "house hunting". We did that, without exaggerating, everyday, all day, for 4 days. but the effort finally paid off and three days ago we found a place to stay. So now we're living with a couple of irish guys not far from the city. Luckily we had a place to stay in the meantime - with the Clark family! Thank you so much for having us! Especially Nola who even took us to Healesville Sanctuary for some quality sightseeing before driving us to our new house. ! :D (I took that picture myself!! *proud* haha but the koalas didnt put up much of a show for us unfortunately..)
At 11 o'clock tonight the Israeli owners of the house are throwing us a big jewish dinner *scared*. We haven't really had time to get to know them yet as we have been going out every night since we moved in. Kara, an old friend from when i used to live here, has been our personal guide, taking us out to a couple of nice bars. And our plan is to leave for a better place in a week (just off an awesome shopping street) so we'll see how much they'll like us after we tell them that... hmm.. anyhoo, Josefin is getting restless again so i'm gonna write more later. but at least now u know we're still alive.. :)

singapore's airport - our second home

woot woot
we're back at singapore's airport with another 12 hours to go until our plane leaves for melbourne so we've parked ourselves and our massive luggage load at a cafe, trying desperately to find an apartment to rent in melbourne. could anyone possibly get any less organised than us ?! From what it looks like right now, we'll be arriving in melb with absolutely no idea of what to do or where to go. hehe. its great.
we havent been able to put up any photos yet but hopefully we'll get a chance to do that in melbourne. now we're off to grab some food. wish us luck with the apartment! ;P

Last night in Bali

Bali hasn't quite been what we expected. but today we took matters into our own hands and rented a car + driver to take us away from the touristy streets of Kuta. We drove to a much less crowded beach further south of Bali and on our way back we stopped at a Hindu temple surrounded by little monkeys :D. As we didnt eat anything all day we treated ourselves to some luxury food at one of Kuta's fanciest restaurants... and paid about 100 kr for both our meals (entre, main and drinks) ! its unbelievably cheap here.
After writing this blog entry we're off to enjoy our last night out in Bali. Because we're leaving on wednesday morning we're planning on taking it easy tomorrow night.. (we have gone out every night since we got here). So this is it for today! next blog entry will be written on our second (!) 12 hour long wait at singapore's airport...
toodles!

Bali

hola!
We arrived in Bali two nights ago and are trying to adapt to this new "culture".
there are little bali people running around everywhere trying to drag us into the stores/restaurants and offering us transport every 5 seconds.
we have gone out both nights and slept past breakfast both mornings.. which is sort of annoying as it is included in the hotelprice..!
Josefin looks like an olive skinned latina and i look like a sunburnt diana ross from the supremes. life really is unfair...
we have met a couple of fun aussies but other than that not too many tourists.. unfortunately.
we were a bit worried the weather was gonna be bad here (rain season) but the funny thing is that even though its really cloudy, the clouds never cover the sun.. its not like in sweden where a single cloud will cover the sun the whole day..
the humidity is killing us. and the ocean feels about 30 degrees warm, so there is really no place to cool down apart from the hotel room. im so glad we paid for AC!
anyhoo.. we're off to get swarmed by little yellow people again and look for some glasses for tonight's pre-drinks.
so bye for now!
/diana ross and penelope cruz (!)

Singapore

After almost 24 hours of traveling we have finally reached Singapore. And with 10 hours left until our flight to Bali leaves we've become experts at airport cruising. we are already becoming comfortable enough to get changed out of our nasty travel clothes at a semi crowded cafe and joke about the massive stash of coke we're smuggling into the country even though there's a death sentence for drug trafficking here.. sheisse. i sure hope no scary little thai criminal decides to put anything suspicious in our bags... and thats another thing..! the people here really make us feel like big giant heffa women when none of them reach higher than to our belly buttons....
We have been flying for a total of 14 hours already and slept for about 10 of those! the only times we woke up was when we smelled food.. hehe.. and we got the best food ever on the plane!
so go austrian airlines :) and it felt good to hear some pretty german again.. lol. the funniest language. i bet we'll get to use one of the few phrases we know in german sometime during the trip. "Ich habe keine geld" can come good in handy when we get mugged by a big scary Hans with nazi tattoos in the back streets of melbourne...
ooo i just looked out the window behind me and noticed the sun has come up! ( its still early morning here). so there, we're off to soak up some singaporian sun before we get back to eating a second breakfast. (our bodies are so confused..!)
Bubye for now!
/Linda & Jos-mos

D-day

It's now less than 6 hours until we leave for the airport. I have still not finished packing (as my suitcase currently weighs 22 kg and my handluggage weighs 12 kg..!)

We are both completely exhausted from running around all day trying to fix everything in the last minute, like the vaccination for example.. but with 2 hours left until Josefin picks me up i think i will be all set!

It feels completely insane to think that we are gonna be in Bali in 24 hours. I dont think we will believe it until we actually get off the plane!

There are two things I feel I'm gonna have a hard time leaving behind for 3,5 months:

1. Ebba (I wont be home for her 6th birthday!)

2. My room! (Jens has been counting down the days for when he gets to take over my room! I am dreading the horror my poor room is going to have to put up with when Im gone - 8 sweaty and smelly

teenage guys playing world of warcraft against each other surrounded by empty coke/red bull cans and junk food. I dont think it'll ever be able to recover from that...

But other than that I dont think I will get too homesick. 3,5 months will fly away.. right?..

Anywho.. i have to get back to packing.

The next blogpost you read will be written from the other side of the globe! galet.

Hej då Sverige!

packing issues

woohaaa! i finally got my driving license! last night i went on my first drive alone. aaa it was awesome. picked up a friend and drove into town for a coffee. but woah how do people manage to get to where they want to go?! i got lost at least 7 times! it took me twice as long as it should have... its good they taught me how to turn the car around. :P today is wednesday.. which means its exactly two weeks until we leave.. sheisse..! i have been slapping myself on the fingers for over a month now, trying not to pack my suitcase! but this weekend im doing it! aah i cant wait.. haha josefin is a bit more relaxed about the whole thing. she's taking it aussie style.. :P but how we will fit all our junk into a 20 kg suitcase each remains a mystery.. we are most likely gonna have to re-pack it all at the airport... mm.. looking forward to it.

Our Travelplan

The 7th of Feb is the day when it all begins. D-day. It's the day when we leave the country of "falukorv" for a 5 day fryingholliday in Bali, a homeless night in Singapore, 3 unplanned months in Australia, and a week of "Im yust a sviidish tourist, pliis don't kill mii" in downtown Los Angeles. You can see our travel plan in the picture above (pretty, isnt it?!) *proud*
This is the plan as of now. But this could easily change as we are planning on making this trip a very spontaneous one! :)

Welcome to our travel blog!

Today is a very special day.. we have officially passed day 20 on our countdown towards the start of our trip around the world! yay. its all really exciting.. but also nervwrecking... seeing as we still dont have a travel insurance or a place to stay!.. haha we r extremely unorganised atm and have heaps left to do.. even though we have been planning this for about 5 months now...!
But one thing's for sure; theres gonna be some serious sightseeing going on - so beware!
And we're planning on posting it all on this blog.. (well almost all of it anyway...)
So stay tuned for some juicy blog posts and crazy pics!

/ Linda & Jos