Tag: australia

Taking a minute out to write about the last 1.5 years…?!

I meant it when I said more than a year ago, that I was committed to writing more frequent updates on GoCargus…! I had, and have, so much to write about. But life has a way of just happening, and as everything is a prioritisation of one thing over another, for some reason blogging has

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A thousand spiders in our living room… and thoughts on moving to another country with only a few suitcases and one job.

Yep, you read the headline correctly. Australia has not disappointed in any way, and that includes a fair share of bugs and insects. Probably one of the first things people think about in relation to Australia is all the creepy insects. That was also on my mind the first time I got here. However, I

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Our First Aussie Christmas… and a pretty amazing time with family

Our last couple of months have been pretty amazing! We’ve spent Christmas and New Years Eve in Australia for the first time, we’ve had some really important visitors, and it’s the middle of summer! …hold tight for another long post on what we have been up to Down Under. The beginning of December marked the

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Northern Queensland and even more Aussie love!

We left Sydney with a great feeling that Australia was going to be good to us, and that just continued. Northern Queensland was completely different than what we had seen in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. But it was just as much Australia. Our first stop was Magnetic Island. We had debated a lot whether

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Hot and beautiful Northern Territory

From Northern Queensland and the rainforest we flew to Darwin. Here it was hot. Really hot. Like 40°C! And since we were there early October it was not even summer yet! I have tried to figure out how to describe the heat. And one day it hit me – it felt like you have just

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