Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Little fake buttons

I've especially bought an ipad to travel with, pressing fake little buttons is all new to me, but it'll have to do... Poor me.



The Foreword

I didn't even know what a bucket list was until I wrote one myself 25 years ago, It wasn't very long and the things that weren't all totally unobtainable or ridiculous but still quite out of reach for a 10 year old from York.

I've lived in a few places Tenerife, Holland, Greece and currently Switzerland. I've always had this "pull" to go to Australia and I was once told by a palm reader in Greece that if I went to Australia I wouldn't come back. Hoping that she doesn't mean I get lost or I've found my way inside a belly of a flamin croc (I'm practising my Ozzie)(Michelle would be proud) not that I'm planning to stay there, but never say never...

I have the same reoccurring dream too (cue puke sound from my brother..)  I have 2 kids a Great Dane a pick up truck and I'm always pulling into my house which happens to be on the beach..I'm also stick thin, I suppose there has to be some kind of unrealisticness in it..So whatever it means I'm going there and whatever happens happens!

One of the first things I completed on the list was to learn how to snowboard. In 2001 not only did I learn how to snowboard I also eventually became an instructor.

I also managed to complete two things two years ago in Bali one was becoming an open water licensed scuba diver and the other one I obtained while diving, I swam with a black tipped reef shark!

Since I can remember I've always wanted to go to Australia, seeing that its one of the last things on my bucket list it only seems right I should go now! I created this blog so that people can keep up with me on my travels up the east coast of Australia.

I will leave on 16 February 2013 from Zurich fly to Heathrow-Singapore-Melbourne and I will travel for two months up the East Coast to Cairns passing through Tokyo for five days where I hope I can eat lots of sushi and see some sumo wrestlers. yay! win!

xx Jode.