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We're in Sydney right now! Excited for tonight.

We're in Wollongong with Kieran, who took us bodysurfing today. We're going to another Kieran tomorrow. The other Kieran is in Stanswell Park.

Richard and I have both found out how tired backpacking-travelling could be. So we decided that a 10-days holiday before we return for Sweden would be good. Somewhere warm with white beaches and nice resorts. I found a really CHEAP ticket from Kuala Lumpur to London on the 24th of March and I bought it! So I will probably take my holiday somewhere around Malaysia, maybe Bali or Phuket. Richard haven't decided yet...

We got desperate yesterday when we realised that we had nowhere to stay for the next night, no plans and everybody are busy for the holiday. So we sent out two desperate requests on couchsurfing.org and tried to call to a couple of hostels, with no luck. So the only plan was to hitch-hike our way from our host-family in to the unknown. Before we went down to the road this morning I logged on to couchsurfing.org in case we had got a reply. Beleive it or not, we had!

We left some friends this morning, Jane and Caroline, to find some new one. One activity that makes you meet a lot of friends in a short amount of time is hitch-hiking, so that was what we did. We manage to meet an old couple, two young surfers and one middle-age man through the cars that we got a lift with. Not to forget is our new friend Jake that met us at a petrol-station, hooked us up to the Internet on his laptop and helped us to get in contact with our new couch-surfing host. Jake also gave us a big meal of fish&chips, on the house! That guy definitely have a place to stay in Sweden on his Europe-trip :)

Now we're staying with Jo and Brendon and their daughter in their little farm in Jengawalla which doesn't even exist on our map. This will be our 10th couchsurfing-night in a row!

Laura took me with her for a "girl-only" afternoon with her friends. The big goal was to make 4 ginger-bread houses and one tent (my backpacking-ginger-bread-house). In turned out to be a great afternoon with good fun! Especially nice to get a break from the every day travelling and sight-seeing activities and instead do something "normal".

Here is Richard on his 25th birthday, celebrating with bubble and strawberries in our cottage, North Hobart.

Tack for telefonnummret till Kjell!
Vi har ikvall atit en underbar middag med dem i Middle Brighton. Dessutom tog Kjell med oss till Svenska Kyrkan pa en fika och vi fick uppleva denna svenska lilla "frizon" som varmde varmt i hjartat. Men inte visste jag att du jobbat for Kjell i ett helt ar!? Och inte visste jag att Mattias ska bli far!? Halsa min kusin och Sofia och tala om att jag fortfarande vantar pa en brollopsinbjudan...

Bilder far du vanta pa tills vi hittar battre uppkoppling.

After a relaxing weekend in our own private cottage with lots of bubble and strawberries were we ready to fly to Melbourne. But no, the flight yesterday was cancelled. So we spent a restless Sunday in Hobart and slept one night in a 20-bed dorm, long way from our private lounge, backyard, toilet and kitchen that we had in the cottage. We're on a new flight today and hopefully it departures.

So we're back in Hobart and in the today's newspaper could you read about the group of killer-whales that came into the river yesterday! I hope they hang around for a few days so we could spot them! Tomorrow is Richard's 25th birthday and we're going out on a day-trip with a man that we met last week at the Cascade brewery. He and his wife wants to take us for platypus spotting! So hopefully, we will tomorrow see these fascinating animals.