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Consider me challenged!
As you know Petra has been doing a set of challenges with writing the past couple of months. She has accepted the following challenges : Blog post every day in September Preptober challenge for writing a novel in November, the NaNoWriMo challenge (to write 1667 words a day in November) Blog post every day in […]
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Characters of a van
Do you believe a mechanical thing, a car or van, have special characteristics? I didn’t use to. Now I’ve been the owner of this van for almost 13 months. And she’s got character (yes, she’s mostly a she, but every now and then she’s also a he and an it, it all depends). She’s been […]
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Writing challenge
Carneval Row
Have you heard of this new series with Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne, set in a timeline similar to the Victorian Era, and there’s different creatures like fae’s, pucks, werewolves, men and there’s a lot of drama and plot twists? No? Sounds interesting? If yes, you’re welcome! We’ve been watching a couple of episodes per […]
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New Zealand
Paranoia
Though being back is nice, and we haven’t been able to fully enjoy it. We’ve run quite a few errands today, administrative things for the van and also grocery shopping for us. And every time we’ve pulled the curtains so that no one can see into the van and get tempted of breaking in. And […]
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New Zealand
Catching up on sleep
So our past week have been rather intense, and very WiFi limited, and therefore the blog have been quite quiet. We arrived back in New Zealand yesterday morning, after a night of barley any sleep on the flights back here. We managed to get ourselves back to our van. It was a bittersweet moment. To […]
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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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ATMs
This might be a weird topic, but it’s something that shocked both me and Petri in Bali. As far as I can recall, majority of all countries I’ve visited and used an ATM machine in, follows the same pattern. Insert your card, pin, how much you want to withdraw, with/without receipt, card comes out, cash […]
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Writing challenge
Into the wild – Book Review
[Warning; does contain description of the story] Into the wild by Jon Krakauer I think most people have at least heard of, and probably seen, the movie based on the same story. I myself watched the movie some 8-10 years ago with my friend Emma. I recently chatted with a California based friend, Ivy, who […]
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Australia
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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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Bali
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Sleepless high above
Recently we have had a few travel days planned in and the idea is that “we have the chance to sleep then”. I’m usually sleep ok during flights, to Petri’s annoyance. So we had planned a night flight from Bali to Melbourne, starting at 21.00, and being about 6 hours long. Arriving rested and ready […]
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