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Fanny's 3rd entry - Follow the Great Ocean Road

Posted May 05, 2008 in category Fanny from France

Here time is deteriorating quite quickly. After spending a week at 40 degrees, we finally fall into the ruthless Melbourne autumn. Take the rain in Paris in March, multiply the force of wind, rain and frequent changes in temperature by 10 and you get the weather here. So, do you still envy me? : D

Last week, we had a week's holiday. We went to the Great Ocean Road, which is the road that runs along the west coast of the Bay of Melbourne. Last week, we had a week's holiday. We went to the Great Ocean Road, which is the road that runs along the west coast of the Bay of Melbourne. We rented a minibus, for twelve people, and we followed the coast all day on Sunday, stopping at Bells Beach, near Torquay, to watch the Surf competition...

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Fanny's 2nd entry - Rain, hail or shine?

Posted April 07, 2008 in category Fanny from France

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Fanny's 1st entry - The Long Haul to Australia

Posted February 29, 2008 in category Fanny from France

It's 6:00 AM. I slept only for two hours, but I jump into my clothes and eat my last bowl of Chocapic, French chocolate cereals. The next 25 hours will be the longest ever... 

My mother drops me at the airport, I go check in my luggage, and there, the hostess tells me that I don't have the right visa. I don't have the right papers and I've paid $400 for nothing. I don't understand because everything was right on my email! I panic but she finally fixes it in 20 minutes, for free. Phew!

After a few hours, I board the plane to London. They give us some tomatoe and bacon sandwiches, so weird, as if they came from the bottom of a lake so they were wet. [Read More]

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