After our last appartement in Switzerland was finally emptied, the walls painted (thanks to our litte pigs who have messed them up!) und the cleaning was finished in the last second, our flight legt from Frankfurt the 31.08.2015.
Among the 70kg luggage in total, there was a small tent, inflatable matresses, sleeping bags – and the forgotten sandplates (weighing alone 14 kg). Nora and Fiona were proud of drawing their own little suitcases – and we had less to carry!
The transfer in Singapore was quite relaxing thanks to a big indoor-playfround (for the children) and free internet (for us) and with the electronic visum, the formalities at the airport in Australia were quick. Only Noras backpack had to be inspected: the do galt the customs detected the smell of waffles and sausage of grand-mothers foodpack.

Because of the amount of luggage, we paid for the luxury of a taxi to the camping site. After putting up our tent, we made a short trip to the city centre before we fell asleep due to our jetlag and the 30 hrs (in total, including the train to the airport in Germany) of travelling.
The following days we spent by exploring the city and the surroundings as far as possible with public transport (fortunately, Brisbane has a good net of Busses, trains and ferry boats in the city).

One of the first trips was to the “Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary” where our princesses could watching the Koalas climbing and eating, feed kangoroos and they could pat a koala sitting on Noras lap while a photo was taken.

Another day, we Sent to the “UndsrWaterWorld” in Mooloolaba where we were admiring colourfulfish and other creatures living in the sea.

Close to the office of the shipping compagny who organized the transport of our car, we could put our feet for the first time into the ocean and children loved playing in the waves on the beach. They also loved the artificial beach at “South Bank” in the centre of Brisbane where we went several times.

We also used the waiting time for the car for some paper work and the preparation of insurances, also the papers of the car had to be translated and accepted by the Traffic departement.

Some day, we moved to antobet campsite which was nicer and more quite, the Most Importanz thing for our children : it had a playground! Because we had neither chairs nor tables and only minimal kitchen equipment, we were happy the the campgroungs had a fully equippped kitchen with chairs and tables as well as a gas stove, a microwave and a fridge!

On september 11th at 1.40pm “our” shipping entered the harbourof Brisbane (we were following it online). Two hours later, we were also in the harbour and we could really see it and observe how some containers were offloaded. Unfortunately only from far away due to the security restrictions…