tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90257358255572866012024-02-20T02:44:22.527+11:00Mihai and Cristina blogWe have created this blog for our friends scattered around the world...maybe someone will read it from time to time.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-37261265045192254242015-01-01T14:59:00.001+11:002015-01-01T16:16:08.821+11:00Whitsundays One of the last places to see on our Aussie list were the Whitsundays. Our original plan was to take a sailing cruise but with a toddler that was out of question. Instead we spent 3 nights on each Long Island and Hamilton Island. We spent the first three days at Palm Bay resort on Long Island and we have enjoy it a lot. The resort is very small and our bungalow was practically on the beach. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-16636055358989152492015-01-01T13:34:00.000+11:002015-01-01T14:31:23.259+11:00Cook IslandsLast August we had a short escape to the Cook Islands (Rarotonga).... We have selected the place based on recommendations from friends who visited the Islands before. With a bit of delay let`s try and remember the good and the bad.
The trip was quite short from Melbourne with a stop in Auckland. We have rented a house close to Muri beach and we got a car for the first three days. Although thereAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-80550405898713623702014-03-30T09:38:00.003+11:002014-03-30T10:15:14.298+11:00Boston - first weekAfter sub-zero temperatures for most of the week. the last days were a bit better so I have taken some time to visit the city. Since I was in 'historic' mood I have followed the so called Freedom trail around the city...at some point down the road I discovered that there was literally a trail marked on the pavement so one just needs to follow this red line/bricks. Learned some history too, about Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-71823469674226097732012-12-09T17:39:00.000+11:002012-12-09T17:39:09.917+11:00ThailandOur first trip abroad since we moved down under. Destination: Thailand.
We chartered a boat and "sailed" the Andaman sea. Apart from the first and last day we needed the engine ...this sea is calm as a lake ...in November at least. Very relaxing time with nothing to do all day around but snorkelling. We`ve seen fishes everywhere but mostly the same species....I hope the Great Barrier Reef is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-75413378444042006322012-10-06T15:54:00.002+10:002012-10-07T17:45:50.880+11:00Road trip in USAFew weeks ago we went on a two week trip to USA and Canada. Despite the main purpose of the trip was business (we attended to two conferences, one in Corvallis, Oregon, and the other in Vancouver) we took some holidays as well!
The first part of our "road trip" took place between the conference in Corvallis and the one in Vancouver. For two days we drove along the north West coast of the States,Apontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-50967668191880733402012-08-27T21:53:00.002+10:002012-08-27T22:18:30.900+10:00Mt Hotham - skiing downunderHere the proof ...Australia has snow and ski runs. Lucky us..this year was one of the best, heaps of snow. Unfortunately we arrived at the base of the mountain during a snow storm so we had to wait for a convoy to escort us up the mountain to the resort ....It took us around 4 hours from Melbourne to base (~350 km) and another 4 hours for the remaining 30-40km to Hotham resort. First day was Apontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-4720085452097378642012-07-24T22:18:00.000+10:002012-07-24T22:18:16.636+10:00Fraser IslandShort trip to UNESCO World Heritage Fraser...
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-8524120598057572122012-06-24T16:55:00.000+10:002012-06-24T16:57:23.441+10:00Kuala LumpurHace un mes y pico que fuimos un par de semanitas a España y de camino paramos un par de días en Kuala Lumpur (Malasia).
Como dicen las guias turísticas de las grandes metrópolis asíaticas, Kuala Lumpur es una "ciudad de contrastes"... vamos que lo normal es que a un lado de la calle te encuentres un rascacielos modernísimo y al otro una barriada de casas pobres llena de monos que rebuscan entreApontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-19181538346890562952012-06-24T16:09:00.001+10:002012-06-24T16:11:50.029+10:00Se acabó el campo... por ahoraDesde Septiembre del año pasado he estado trabajando en un proyecto que estudia el efecto del fuego en los bosques australianos. Durante este tiempo he aprendido mucho y he disfrutado aún mas!! De momento el trabajo de campo se ha terminado. Ahora toca encerrarse con el ordenador y ver qué podemos hacer con todos esos datos que hemos recogido. Con un poco de suerte habremos contribuido a Apontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-80697388414579814052012-03-18T16:36:00.000+11:002012-03-18T16:36:15.041+11:00F1 2012 season startso...this year I decided to watch the race from my couch ...but of course I did want to have a look at the new cars with their funny looking nose. So I went for Saturday FP3 and qualifying session withe a GA (general admission) pass and the upgrade to the Premium zone. This proved to be a very good choice since the area is on the hill before curve 14 and has a large TV screen just in front. So I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-64222614177511444732012-02-25T15:01:00.000+11:002012-02-25T15:01:58.924+11:00Wilsons PromLast week-end we did a camping trip to one of the nicest places around Melbourne....when the whether is good. Superb beeches with mountains and forests in the background, rivers entering the sea and nice trekking paths. As downside ...the camping was packed...of course everybody goes there because is so beautiful.
The plan was to have a nice, quiet day on the beach on Saturday, followed by Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-38917415463656949592012-01-19T22:08:00.001+11:002012-01-21T00:24:44.585+11:00TasmaniaBack from our short holidays - a week in Tassie. Very wild place, lots of forest, some huge trees, and of course lots and lots of rain. We got wet every day (except the first I think). By the end of the week we knew ..sleep late do the hiking in the afternoon when the sun comes up.
We spent the first couple of days in the south east taking advantage of beaches and sun ...
then we cross towards Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-72961661713535027832012-01-03T23:03:00.005+11:002012-01-03T23:24:54.403+11:00Navidades australianasPara bien o para mal, las navidades son unas fechas para estar en familia. Y qué pasa cuando la familia está en la otra punta del mundo??? Pues que toca buscarse una "familia de repuesto" y arrejuntarse con los otros "huérfanos" que también pasarán las navidades fuera de casa. El hecho de que aquí sea verano y haga un calor de muerte hace que el espíritu navideño falle un poco y que algunas Apontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-22446725582645119722011-12-25T18:54:00.001+11:002011-12-25T18:54:43.898+11:00Aussie ChristmasThe first Christmas in a land far far away from home ...... and with some "snow" ....very lucky indeed :)
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-38859032653685944872011-11-16T18:39:00.004+11:002011-12-25T18:11:21.476+11:00Enjoying Australia!Last weekend we went with some of our Spanish friend to the Great Ocean Road. The weather was unusually warm, so we enjoyed at the beach, we swam in the Tasman Sea (OMG, it was cold!!) and if the evening we prepared the typical Ozzy BBQ and the typical Spanish Kalimotxo....and of course, next day we suffered the worldwide typical hangover :)
Here is the video to prove it! Just follow the link...Apontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-15386800382871118522011-08-22T18:19:00.006+10:002011-11-27T19:32:14.299+11:00Plantando arbolitosComo en esta vida hay que hacer de todo, la semana pasada me fui a plantar árboles con la empresa CO2 Australia.Se trata de plantaciones de eucalyptus para capturar C02 y vender despues los creditos a empresas que "contaminen", un tema muy de moda en Australia ahora que estna a punto de aprobar el llamado "Impuesto del Carbono"para grabar a las grande empresas contaminantes por tonelada de C02 Apontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-56091455702731916782011-07-31T21:37:00.014+10:002011-11-27T19:31:09.172+11:00Adventures in the Northern TerritoriesLast week we took some days off and flew to the so called "Top End" in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Once at Darwin we hired a 4WD campervan that would allow us to drive through all the unsealed roads and get to more isolated areas far from the mass tourism. At first the car looked great...but that was just "at first".... Later on the first night we would discover that the car had no Apontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-32766295090449889942011-05-26T19:07:00.002+10:002011-11-27T14:03:25.270+11:00SydneyFlash trip to Sydney for work. I had an entire free afternoon but it was raining cats and dogs..In the evening the rain stopped a little bit and I went out....nice city, like it very much, have to go back with Cris.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-50288797346194853022011-05-22T18:52:00.011+10:002011-05-22T22:44:31.994+10:00Our first Australian Adventure// Nuestra primera aventura australianaLast week, after five months living in Melbourne, we finally went on our first Australian adventure. For this first trip we decided to visit Central Australia. We flew to Alice Springs, a small town in the middle of nowhere, and there we rented a campervan. Despite we had booked a two-persons campervan, the company "upgraded" us and gave us a 4-people campervan... what in the end turned out to beApontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-43431650962912446332011-04-11T19:31:00.005+10:002011-04-11T19:45:53.473+10:00Finde de aventurasComo quizas ya sabeis, Mihai y yo nos hemos inscrito en el club de montaña de la Universidad de Melbourne (http://www.mumc.org.au/). Cada fin de semana organizan distintas actividades. El pasado fin de semana había una excursion para hacer escalada y otra para participar en un proyeto de conservación, asi que nos dividimos: Mihai se fue a probar la escalada y yo a colaborar como voluntaria. El Apontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-85319724783774602442011-03-31T18:48:00.005+11:002011-11-27T19:41:41.605+11:00Nuestra primera visita!!!Mucho antes de lo que podíamos imaginar, estos días hemos tenido nuestra primera visita. Aprovechando que Cristian venía a la F1 a Melbourne, decidió quedarse un par de días con nosotros. El lunes, tras un fin de semana agotador con tanto coche y tanta carrera, nos quedamos dando una vuelta por Melbourne y poniéndonos al día después de más de 6 años sin vernos!!El martes alquilamos un coche y nosApontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-48883107381768968642011-03-28T19:01:00.000+11:002011-03-28T19:01:28.612+11:00F1 week-endOur first F1 GP live ...and the last one for Cris :)
We spent both Saturday and Sunday at the track seeing almost the entire show: old cars, V8 supercars, Porsche Carrera cup and of course the F1 Practice 3, Qualifying and the race. The most unbelievable (and unbearable) was the noise of the F1 cars...is so loud that I had to use earplugs at some point. After two days most of F1 "glamour" is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-80148085025600501852011-03-21T19:49:00.001+11:002011-03-21T19:51:38.141+11:00F1 2011Dear all ...F1 has started already. On Saturday we went to see Webber driving the RB7 on the Bolte Bridge and then the meeting with the fans (although there were not that may as I was expected). We stood there from 10 to around 12 AM taking photos and speaking with people. Now some photos with the car .....
...and stay tuned because this week-end we have tickets to the big event F1 Melbourne Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798982126889337499noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-44161103120033873492011-03-21T09:48:00.003+11:002011-03-21T09:58:29.715+11:00Field work in the Otaways // Trabajo de campo en los OtawaysThis week I have had the opportunity to go to do some field work at the Otaways National Park with the Fire research Group of the Department of Forest & Ecosystem Science. It has been a great opportunity to learn a lot about Australian Eucalypt forest and to earn some money too ;) During these days we stood on a rented summer house close to the Park and from there we drove every day to the Apontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025735825557286601.post-7723379915398530692011-03-10T17:02:00.003+11:002011-11-27T19:44:33.726+11:00Un fin de semana muy completoAnte los temidos treinta, se me ocurrió que si montaba un fin de semana a tope de actividades y no aparecía por casa en un par de días, conseguiría darles esquinazo y esquivar el inevitable bajón.Asi que el sábado alquilamos un coche y nos fuimos a un santuario de fauna, cerca de Melbourne. Alli vimos canguros, koalas, dingos y hasta ornitorrincos!! Al día siguiente fuimos al aeropuerto de AvalonApontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733553050612313000noreply@blogger.com1