Adelaide
Yesterday we left Melbourne for Adelaide,a cheap flight with Jetstar,1 hour and 10 minutes and here we are.We actually are at Backpack Oz hostel,27 dollars by night and the wireless,breakfast and bicycles free all the days.Today thanks to all this kindness we have gone from Adelaide city to the seaside with two bikes,something like 30-35 km.
Ieri abbiamo lasciato Melbourne per Adelaide,un volo economico con Jetstar,1 ora e 10 minuti e eccoci qui.Per ora siamo all’ostello Backpack Oz,27 dollari a notte con internet wireless,colazione e biciclette gratis tutti i giorni.Oggi grazie a tutta questa gentilezza siamo andati da Adelaide centro fino alla spiaggia con due biciclette,qualcosa come 30-35 km.
Even if neither Lonely Planet seems to know what there is to have fun in Adelaide,is a beautiful city,really relaxing,nothing compared to the rush there is in Melbourne or Sydney.
Anche se nemmeno il Lonely Planet sembra sapere cosa ci sia per divertirsi ad Adelaide,e’ una città’ stupenda,veramente rilassante,niente a confronto con la fretta che hanno a Melbourne o a Sydney.
Funny game indeed,it worthed one photo!
Un gioco davvero divertente,valeva una foto!
This is still the inner city,the path towards the beach was much more far.
Questo e’ ancora il centro città’,la strada verso la spiaggia era molto più’ lontana.
Today was sunny,and this huge park along the river was amazing.
Oggi c’era il sole,e questo enorme parco accanto al fiume era stupendo.
The river was crowed of animals,birds and most of all black swans,they are really everywhere here.
Il fiume era affollato di animali,uccelli e soprattutto cigni neri,sono davvero dappertutto qui.
Too little,but fast and smooth,useful to backstab a black swan.It’s not racism,the white ones were missing.
Troppo piccolo,ma veloce e silenzioso,utile per attaccare alle spalle un cigno nero.Non e’ razzismo,i cigni bianchi non c’erano.
At the end of the park there was a dam with a little bridge,but given that we had been told to follow the river to get to the seaside (…)
we went on on the path.
Alla fine del parco c’era una diga con un piccolo ponte,ma dato che ci era stato detto di seguire il fiume per arrivare alla spiaggia,
abbiamo proseguito per il pensiero.
If you veto too close,he gets really cranky,but it worthed the shots.
Se ti avvicini troppo si arrabbia davvero,ma gli scatti ne valevano la pena.
During the ride,we started to hear a really annoying noise.The more we got closer,the more we started to figure out what was that,
the most annoying bird in Oz.Cockatoo.Full trees.
Durante la strada,abbiamo iniziato a sentire un rumore davvero fastidioso.Piu’ ci avvicinavamo,
più’ ci rendevamo conto di cosa fosse,l’uccello più’ fastidioso d’Australia.Cacatua.Alberi pieni.
After one hour on the bike at last we got to the seaside!
Given that we were starving,we stopped in the first place there was to eat something.
We both ordered coconut prawns,16 dollars of pleasure,but I have tasted no coconut…
Dato che stavamo morendo di fame,ci siamo fermati nel primo posto che abbiamo trovato.
Abbiamo ordinato entrambi gamberi al cocco,16 dollari di piacere,ma non ho sentito il sapore di nessun cocco.
That was the view from the balcony.
Questa era la vista dal balcone.
Adelaide is a really good city,really relaxing,but there’s not much to see,even Lonely Planet doesn’t know what to suggest.
If you like night life,parties,surf and big festival all over the city,don’t come here.
It’s more relaxing,there’s inner peace here,nothing like Melbourne or Sydney,here something that we liked in the city centre.
Adelaide e’ una bella città’,veramente rilassante,ma non c’e’ molto da vedere,anche il Lonely Planet non sa cosa dire.
Se vi piace la vita notturna,grandi feste,surf e grandi festival per tutta la città’,non venite qui.
E’ molto più’ rilassante,e’ la pace interiore,nulla a che vedere con Melbourne o Sydney,ecco alcune cose che ci hanno colpito nel centro città’.
The pigeons is watching,Hitchcock docet.
I piccioni stanno guardando,Hitchcock insegna.
My everyday’s present
In spite of scars,everyday’s pain,hard works,nights in which i wake up for mosquitos or bugs on my body,snakes,spiders,liches,giant flies,jumping ants that are still biting me and the sun that burns like hell even if it’s still spring,every moment spent here is still a present.
Kangaroo
Here for you a red kangaroo nose bone,founded in the bush.It’s bigger than one of my hands!
Point Lookout & Surfers’ Paradise
Point Lookout is a half hour far from Byron bay by walk
Once you reach Byron bay lighthouse,don’t turn back,go straight on following the little path that comes down towards the ocean,and in 15 minutes you’ll reach Point Lookout,
the eastern point of Australia!
From point lookout we saw two whales that day,mother and his puppy,jumping out from water,unluckly I didn’t have the right lens…
The ocean was calm enough but the cliff was hit by very high waves,get to close would have been really dangerous
Here’s the eastern rock of Australia!
It was too high to be climbed,and already busy
That is the path that leads to Byron bay lighthouse and Point Lookout,NE corner of the map!
The Surfers’ Paradise is quite close to Byron,a flat or a house behind that beach costs a fortune,given that here you could go to that wonderful beach all the year,winter is not cold at all here!
The water was a bit cold,but surfers don’t mind things like that,there were a lot of people with their board that was going to the car to sleep there and wake up early in the morning only to get good waves!
This place deserve his name,if you come here be prepared,it costs a lot,but it worths absolutely every dollar you’ll spend
Byron Bay Lighthouse
Last weekend we decided to do a promenade
to the byron lighthouse!
The path went through the bush,it was really narrow and the vegetation was so thick that was hard to see all the moving things
The path starts from here,30 minutes by walk to reach the lighthouse,it has been really scary,a freaky australian animal could suddently come out in every moment!
To reach this point we took something like 10 minutes,going quite fast,so it was in the deep bush!
Who one would like to take a seat overthere,where spiders or snakes could bite you in every moment?
There were steps,climbs and descents everywere,we sweated one half hour to get to the lighthouse,but after all the landscape was amazing!
Sometimes we were able to see the ocean,in the middle of the deep forest there were some holes in which it appeared
that seems to be the entrance to dante’s hell
in fact after some minutes we entered in,a girl crossing our street said us that se had just seen 2 brown snakes not so far from there
(if one bites you,you die in 40 minutes)
lucky us,after some hundred metres we heard some creepy noises from left and right,two unknown animals were running away from us,luckly,but we died inside anyway
At last we started seeing the lighthouse,step by step bigger and bigger,and there was no more bush or creepy sounds!
After the lighthouse we went on walking,till the Point Lookout,near the seaside,the eastern point of australia
All in the next post,stay tuned!
Kookaburra
The Australian animal I love more
is not the kangaroo,
or the koala,
how banaal it would be!
It’s a little funny bird,
that laughs every time he tweet!
You can hear him from far far away!
Today I have been so lucky to meet one from so close!
He first noticed us,then we did!
We took some pieces of meet to bring him closer,
but he didn’t trust us at all!
Here is cleaning is beak,a lot funny,
most of all when he beated it several times on the brunch!
But today was windy,and the meat’s smell was too attractive!
Once he decided,he flew toward us in a rush,
taking all he was able to take!
He liked and he came twice in few minutes,grabbing with his bech and his claws
The Ambler Journal 