Being KantryMan

A day in unemployed planet

Much more than whiskas

Australia II

Food and drink really deserve to be mentioned. The portions are sometimes humongous. Even if you would have been without food for a couple of days you would not be able to eat those plates. From the typical Aussie breakfast, for those who have iron stomachs to really refined vegetarian sandwiches where the salads smell like they have been picked from the garden just a few minutes ago.

Of course for the mates you have beer and beer and more beer. Glasses from lady like to de Aussie bloke size. But if you are a true gourmet try the wines. The Shiraz is really good and there are a lot of restaurants offering culinary highlights to accompany. Stakes of various imported and local animals are on the menu as well fresh fish and seafood. Vegetarians are not forgotten and if you look well you get delicious dishes prepared with local vegetables.

If you are an animal lover well your day has been made. Cute, Cuter and Cutest like kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, dingoes. Also others that are not as cute like the carnivorous marsupials but when you meet them you have to admire them. Also loads of different birds from all sorts of colors, enormous tree forests, and immense solitary plains contrasting with ultramodern buildings in Perth. It’s most likely that I’ll come back here a couple of times.

Australia I

What can I say, traveling is the most you can experience in this planet, especially when you go to places that are very far away and you have never seen before. Yes you have seen documentaries, films, read books. But nothing can beat the sensation when you arrive there. The first difference is the space. The contrast is huge. In the Netherlands everything is very crowded. In South Western Australia you go miles and miles and you only see enormous trees, lunar landscapes and some emus and kangaroos jumping of running around.

It is really impressive how people living there have managed to beat those huge distances and isolation by creating a well developed road and transport infrastructure. Most of the time I could find more products on a local supermarket than the most sorted supermarket in the center of Amsterdam.

The relationship with the aboriginals is a very itchy thing. Some people are just in a kind denial of everything that has happened. Others are so touched by it that they feel really unhappy. Others try to go on and from now on make the most of it. What impressed me is to see that many of them that are now in between the ages of 40 and 50 years old are lost. Too much has happened to them. The new generations some of them got quite handy and they move pretty well in the regular world. Others are marginalized but contrary to the numbness of their elders they have become aggressive.

Australia