Australia

Australia
English
Peparation
Petri
Travel
Writing challenge

Dropping the ball

So it seems I am not doing a good job with my writing challenge. The past few days we have been relaxing and binging Netflix at a friend’s place in Melbourne. It has been awesome and we’re been gathering stenght to continue travelling soon as our flight to Thailand is closing in soon. It seems […]

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Australia
Bali
cultural differences
English
Indonesia
New Zealand
Petri
Travel
Writing challenge

Traffic

In Finland we are taught to respect people’s  right to do something unpredictable.You can call it a mentality for tolerancesWe leave space for something unexpected to happen I have noticed that this mentality is best represented in trafficFinns leave space for others and try to be as predictable as possible so others don’t have to […]

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Australia
English
New Zealand
Writing challenge

“So good”

Internet, and especially Youtube is full of information on the slang expressions used in this part of the world. Though we have had a bit less contact with locals, here are the ones from New Zealand that we have picked up and actually use; Yeah nah – means no, and it stuck quickly and I […]

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Australia
English

Birthday on the road

Petri had his second birthday in a row on this same trip! Which is pretty cool! We hadn’t initially planned anything special. Then we decided to go on a road trip with friends to the Australian outback! I wanted to make it special. So I asked our friend to see if he could fix a […]

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