The Netherlands will be safe for three months, but the Aussies won't be though...
 

That's right, I'm going on a three month trip to Australia, leaving early december (7th) and returning on February 26th. Atleast that is the plan, I have reserved tickets but haven't payed for them yet. I'll talk with some close relatives what they think about my travel plans, which will involve traveling from NL (Amsterdam) via Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) -Six hour stop- to Sydney (Australia). On my return I'll only spent about three hours in Malaysia. Though I'm playing with the idea of spending a few days there (not sure yet, depends on what I can do in Kuala Lumpur, visa trouble -not needed?- and how much it will cost me extra).

As for my schedule in Australia; I have non besides a vague plan to spent some time in Sidney, then traveling along the east coast up north and by then I'll figure out where to go next.

It's a shame Scorpy doesn't frequent these forums anymore, I wouldn't mind to hunt him down... :evilgrin: :lol:

I'll post some more later this weekend or on Monday (I'm supposed to close the deal on the tickets on Saturday or Monday so I'll use that time to verify if the airplane trip (route, times) are exactly how I want them to be).

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good for you :)

I asume you have finished your studies and want to explore the world a bit ?
I hope to do the same when my day comes (still 2 years to go for me, but hey, atleast i'm this year over the half of my course, so I can start looking forward to a simmular experience)

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I wouldn't leave North Europe even if a nuke was heading here. Good luck, anyways!

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Actually I failed my studies so I decided to do something different this year (and hopefully resuming college next year). :(

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oooh sorry m8, I didn't knew that :(

have a nice trip anyway

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Austria > Australia :p

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You wouldn't even go to southern Europe and visit my relatives in Sicily for me?

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Drop by and say hello to a fellow FHfag if you're coming past my way :p

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Sorry to hear that. Next year; less :donitz: and more :faq:. That should do the trick. ;)

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Luck gets up and luck gets down.
Fate goes as it pleases you just direct it to which place you want it go.
Good luck with your journey Donutz.

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good luck and stay far away from belgium =p

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and which city would that be? :naughty:

Don't make me hijack the plane and crash it into your house!

Oh and now I'm also thinking of goin back via Bangkok instead, a friend of the family can tour me around there. SO it's either the cheapest way back (Quala Lumpur, 2-3 hour stopover, deciding to spent a few days there or taking an other route back to spent a few days in Bangkok... ugh, I'll just have to go to the travel agent again to see what the extra costs would be.

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Bangkok? Good choice...if you know what I mean.:naughty:

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You mean the girls? I'd guess the Malaysian ones wouldn't be too bad either... :naughty: And I'm flying with Malaysian airlines (for the second part of the trip from Malaysia to Australia) which means hot Malaysian stewardesses... :D.

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I see you got my point...;)
But I can say you will almost surely have oportunities in Bangkok...don't know about Malaysia though.

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Have you been to Bangkok?

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I had ticket booked for last spring...but my GF forbid me to go at that time. However I have lot of freinds that have been there and I can tell you a bit from what they told me :).

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Hit me on MSN (doh you don't have that). Am I glad I don't have a girlfriend (never had though actually), why would she "forbid" such a thing? I wouldn't forbid my girl to travel anywhere if she'd say such a thing. :uhm: Unless it would conflict with an important item on my (our0 agenda such as an imprtant family meeting or something.

Anyway, I went back to the travel agent, I got an alternative travelplan layed out to me: Traeling from Amsterdam via Frankfurt, via Bangkok to Melbourne and then back again (via Muchen). This would enable me to stay in Bangkok for 200 euros more (1650 instead of 1450). Or I could make a stopover at Quala Lumpur for about the same extra amount of money.

The option for Bangkok for two days (three nights) sounds nice, might extend it but I have to talk with my guide there and if when she will be available (she is with us now here so discussing that will be easy =p ). And I might try to get a route from Amsterdam to Bangkok directly but then I'd have to shorten my trip to Australia from 3 months to ... perhaps 2,5 months. Late february is pretty filled up to leave Australia. :(

My orginal plan would make me travel with Malaysian air (:naughty: ), the alernative with Thai air (guess those stewardesses would eb just as hawt) and if I'd try to fly from A'dam to bangkok I'd have to fly with CHina air (which also sounds good). =p

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Why the lol? I don't recall you ever having mentioned your city or region where you live. =p Your location just reads "Australia" which could be in some bloody desert a thousand kilometers away from the civilized world... and the only thing you have being a rock to live under and pair of fucking kangaroos to power a giant hamster kangaroo wheel to supply you with power for your computer...

Once my travel plans are all set I'll keep get in touch with you (email or scary text messages... ;) ) to see what the possibilities would be. :lol:

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You should come over here also. :|

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Can you read minds? :naughty:

I am considering to cross over for a week or so depending on:
A) The costs (How much would it cost me at a minimumal without going for a long swim?)
B) If I would be welcomed by anybody. On my own it wouldn't matter as much (also depending on part A, paying a few hundred dollars to see some different rocks while I wander around... I do have to weight a low budget against benefits you know).

=p

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Depends. Pacific Blue or JetStar is probably cheapest, and you're probably looking around AUD$110+ (e55?) for mid-Feb flights one way out of Sydney.

Otherwise, for early Feb (say, 5th to 9th) probably around NZ$380+ (e170+) return.

For the record, I live in Christchurch, and reborn is in Palmerston North. Luckily, Wellington is in between both, and one of the few routes you can travel entirely by train (TranzCoastal from Chch to Picton, ferry across to Wellington, train to Palmy). I have nothing good to say about Auckland.

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Im returning to Europe around February 26th-28th or so, so a "late february" plan could be tricky. A late January or early february one would sound more safe... and expensive apparantly. :o But again, I haven't finalized my tickets yet. If I end up getting a good third alternative with CHina air which would mean departing earlier or later from Australia then late February (all filled up) things could play out differently.

I'd be most interest in taking a return ticket to NZ for a week or so. As with Commie, once my travel plans are 100% certain Ill be sure to let you know and I'd be nice if I could reach you while I am there (mail or phone) to see if we can set something up.

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I couldn't think of a suitable bit of text to use as a hyperlink, then I thought 'lol wikipedia' would be good because it reminds me of the people who nag on about Wikipedia not being a trustworthy resource.

Also, to non-Australians, Australia basically is a non-civilized desert with kangaroos and hamster kangaroo wheels...actually that's probably what my ISP uses :rofl:

Also, scary text messages = no problem. Had someone message me the other day saying "It's a boy!". Had me quite confused, so I replied "Dunno who you are, but congratulations". Never heard back from that person, but oh well :lookaround:

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Just poor timing =p

Tourist countries in summertime.

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That's sounds awesome Donut...But how much is this going to cost you? :S

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Heh true, I just coincidentally happend to plan the trip for Aussie summer (Euro winter) time. "I 'd like to go to Aussie, when woud it be the most conviennent for me to depart? Around late November, early December...".

Stupid summer season (tourists extra high prices and supply and demand logic... )! =p

Trip option 1 (KLM/Malayian Airlines flight) from A'dam via Kuala Lumpur to Sdney return flight € 1.450,-
Trip option 2 (Lufthansa/Tai Air) from A'dam via Frankfurt, via Bangkok to Melbourne return flight with 3 day stopover in bangkok on the way back: € 1650,-

I'll go back to the travelagency this afternoon, going to see if I can fly with hina air a week later (since flight fromAussia to Bangkokk is all filled up Feb 28th=March4th) to see what an A'dam - Bangkok - Sidney/Melbourne (don't care where I land) flight will cost me. Just aslogn as it's cheap nd if I can make a stopover in Bangkok to get a tour there by a guide (friend) there.

I am not rich so I need am trying to get the best pirce offer I can get. =p

PS: A US trip would be next on the list, maybe in a year or so... I don't plan that far ahead and I don't know how empty my wallet will be when I get back... :lol:

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Update:

I finally agreed on a nice travel plan. Which is as follows:

I fly with China air from Amsterdam (December 9th) via Bankok, via Taipe to Sydney. I then spent 86 days there (probably the last week or 1-2 in NZ) , I fly back March 7th and spent a week in bankok were I am toured around through the city and country. I then arrive back in the Netherlands.

:D

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Whatever you do, don't enter Burma.

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I heard they play funny games there, crossing ricefields filled with landmines. Or so Rambo teached me...

Speaking of entering terrirtory. Which other famous forumers do we have down under besides Commie, MaskedMarso and Rebornintheglory? Mr. Pedantic, Yannick (Blitzkrieg), Flodgy, ... maybe an FH-er or two which I do't know or recall about... :evilgrin:

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Err... Might be me being a silly dyslexic but is your title a bit typo'd? :p.

So you're off to see the convicts and gold? I hear the outback is wonderful and don't say that people from New Zealand and Aussies sound the same.

You will not return.

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The V should be an F yes but... meh. BUt just for you I'll change it. ;)

I'm going to try that one, "All you people look and sound the same". =p

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Toucinator (makes FH maps) lives in the same area as me, we're friends from school, and another person who I've seen play FH lives down the street from him. One of my clanmates occasionally drives up here to cruise around the racetrack like a true hooligan.

EDIT: also, you might want to put the NZ flag next to the Australian one in your sig to avoid offending any Kiwis :P

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Damn, I forgot about the European way of writing calendar dates. I was thinking "September to July? Why can't I have such awesome holidays?"

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Hope you enjoy our beautiful country Donutz!

If your heading Queensland, Brisbane area, hit me up :p
haha

Oh, and just for the record:

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/676...thappenrz8.jpg

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:vikki: Just because you guys have to pay for our traffic doesn't mean we're all like that...

Technically the ferry doesn't count as a train =p.

I can't believe this...you have nothing good to say about Auckland, and then you go recommending him a trip to wellington?!

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I forbid you to leave.

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I don't think I even remotely know those people... =p

I take pleasure on shocking and offending people. AUstralia is my main goal. Maybe I'll put up a flag later but I want to see the look on those NZ faces first. :lol: Thining about it, maybe I should put up a Dutch flag instead of the Aussie flag and act all nationalistic and stuff and how good Europe is and such. That would be fun. :rofl:

Lol, silly Americans.

You people don't right kangaroos or just not around the operah house in Sidney?

I don't really know you though, you could be a creepy old man for all I know... *blinks* But I'll just move up north and leave messages on these forums about my whereabouts. =p But who knows what I'lld do when I wander through the Brisbane area...

It's a trap?!

*Looks at orangy*
MM how could you!

Make me (call in a bombthreat or something on Schiphol on the 9th, and the 10th and the 11th and...

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have fun and if you meet yahtzee tell him i said hi :D

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It's not like I'm that notable an FH'er either...am I? :lookaround::lol:

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Great news. Now we can actually get out of our houses! :)
You can stay there if you want!!!!

Jk :p
Hope you enjoy your time there.

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Jafa!

Wellington is a great city for short visits - Parliament, Te Papa, Cablecars, etc.

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Notable enough, atleast more then "I totally don't know who the bloody hell you might be".

Short visits as in "just driving through it with a bus"? =p

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Short visits as in "a couple of days". It gets confusing with twisting streets and hills.

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Sydney* =p

We ride them everywhere man. Who needs cars when we have to joy of ho....no, we dont v_v

True, but on the other hand, i could actully be an 18 year old girl in need of some European lovin'

But you know, if you want to take your chances =p

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EPIC FAIL :eek:

Good to talk to you on MSN my son after all these months (years?)

Picked a good time to come to Aus as the weather is getting better, December being Summer time.

Can go on a Kangaroo ride with me ? :rofl:

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I'd love to. :D

Oh and you better start moving your furniture to a safe shelter... ;)

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ooh you should video tape it and show us every winking moment of your trip :)

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No plans to visit Melbourne? Melbourne>Sydney.


At least visit the Gold Coast.