Motorbike for sale

Today is my last day in Australia and this last few weeks have been fantastic with this wonderful motorbike trip around the South East of Australia. Unfortunately, I am selling my so loved motorbike Honda CBR600F :-( I have had mostly great times with her and I will miss her dearly. Thanks to Jerome who will take care of her until she is sold. If you know anyone in Melbourne interested, please forward the link to my ad on gumtree


Next stop ... Vancouver !

"Gros Con" en Australien

Une fois de plus les australiens se font remarquer. "Grocon" est une societe dans le batiment, et loin d'etre la plus petite. For the non-french speakers, this is like having a company called "FatBastard".

What do I need a tent for?

So far, so good! But the tent and the rest of the gears (camping stove, pan, thermorest, sleeping bag) take a lot of space and I don't have much. Except if you have a big touring bike and extra storage, don't take the tent!

• So what? I have decided to finish the motorbike trip (1 week to go) without it and leave everything at my dad's place in Sydney (which I will pick everything up on my stopover on the way to Vancouver in 2 weeks.

• The good thing? I am now lighter. Which means I can enjoy the roads even more :-)

• The bad thing? .... no more free camping in National Parks ...

Mungo NP pictures

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=61823&l=43123&id=669456775

"couillon" en australien

This one in french ...

Si vous ne saviez pas comment ecrire "couillon" en Australien. Voila la reponse!
Pour information, c'est une rue de Canberra. A mon avis, ils ont tellement de con qu'ils leur ont dedie une rue ;-)

The mosquitos genocide

If there is one thing that I found the most annoying : The mosquitos.
During the worst times, I could clean the visor 5 times a day. Can you believe it? Once, I got it clean at a pit stop for re-fuelling and 30km later I had to stop again because I could not see a thing. I must have killed at least 10.000 of them so far (with both the helmet and the front of the bike).

The old riders' tips

On the way, I am stopping mostly in campsite (sometimes in National Parks) and almost everytime, I meet retirees touring around Australia in their campervan. But the most interesting part is that some of them are old bikers. Especially this guys, Steve, who was travelling with his wife and who I met in one of Mildura's campsite. This guy looked like a gangster/biker/killer with lots of tatoos and a few scares. But he was in fact very nice, very helpful, always happy to talk about bikes. We took the maps out and showed me where I should see and the good rides. He also had lots of accidents on his previous bikes, but 1 of them was a big one and got very injured (total of 4 years in hospital, on and off). He is ok now, but he can't ride bikes anymore because of his injured leg ... shame!

Monarto Zoo in Adelaide

This zoo is actually 100km away from Adelaide. This is a fantastic one as you can see animals with very large enclosures (maybe not as much as in the wild though). To check the pics, follow the link http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=61818&l=4e50b&id=669456775

Tourist Drive = Tourist Trap

If you have toured around Australia, you would have noticed the brown signs. They indicate different drives, lookout, activities, etc. But in many little towns (or so called 'shit holes'), the only thing they have is a tourist drive around the suburban houses. Nothing interesting to see but houses, or I may have missed the attraction ...