moving on

It's been a good 2 months. Darwin really is a nice little city. It has PERFECT weather every day and a relaxed atmosphere. The people who I work with in the Wisdom Bar have been great. Their staff is a mix of backpackers, australians and colourful immigrants -young and somewhat older- which makes for plenty of fun and conversation. We've been lucky with our housemates too, all top notch people.

Darwin is starting to suffer from world cup fever which will all culminate on mondayevening when the "socceroos" will play their first match of the world cup against Japan. It promises to be a memorable night with all the bars showing the game on huge screens and everyone shouting the socceroos on. Hopefully we can spend the night celebrating their first win. Tuesday I'm starting work at 8 in the morning though, so that might prove to be a hard day in the kitchen :)

It won't matter in the end though, 'cause wednesday will be my last workingday in Darwin! We've started to settle a bit here and could easily stay here a month or so longer, but it's time for us to continue travelling. Next weekend we'll spend 3 days exploring the famous Kakadu National Park 300 km's east of Darwin. After that we'll visit Lichtfield National Park, which is often discribed as Kakadu, but then compacter (Kakadu being bigger than Belgium) and more beautiful. On the way to Lichtfield NP we'll take the time to do a jumping croc cruise where you get to get up close and personal with these huge prehistoric animals. After returning from that (hopefully with all our limbs intact) we'll probably take a day in Darwin to relax before getting on the Greyhound coach for a long drive to Cairns on the North-east coast of Australia. From there the Great Barrier Reef and the Withsunday islands are less than a day away. After exploring that area we'll slowly make our way down south to Brisbane, Byron Bay and finally Sydney.