Home, cool home.. and THANK YOU!!

Well well. I'm back in Finland. Aand it's FREEZING! Today we got -10 celsius...brrrr...
So. This is my last entry on this blog and the first time I'm writing in english. Sorry already for the writing mistakes you definitely will find.

After Canberra we spent the last days in Sydney. Though we had been there already for a couple of weeks we still got some new things to do. On Saturday eve we saw the amazing fireworks at Darling Harbour - I can only imagine how huge they've been on NYE... just amazing. Also popped in some random bar at the harbour listening to live music and dancing (propably for the last time for a while) in thongs (flipflops).

On Monday we had a private Northern Beaches tour (thank you Grant!) enjoying great views, the sun and the ocean and great company ofcourse. This was the last opportunity for us to get some more tan - hehe.

 

Northern Beaches and fireworks  

Tuesday was the day we left the crowded city and hopped on the Greyhound bus for the very last time. You know we have been sleeping in all the most random places so for the last night in OZ we wanted a little bit of luxory: Rydges hotel at the airport was the perfect option for us: well, it was at the airport (no shit Sherlock!), there was a nice gym, nice room and a nice restaurant. The most important reason to get an own room was the fact that we had to repack our backpacks - which actually went pretty good. And surpricingly I could have brought even more stuff with me! Ok.. not much but still ;)...

 

A little bit of luxory

So our journey back home started on Wednesday noon: Sydney to Hongkong, Honkong to Milan and finally Milan to Helsinki. All together 36h. Was a piece of cake after our trip back to OZ from NZ ;P... Ofcourse we were tired after all... I guess my inner clock stopped ticking at some point... atm I feel pretty lucky not having a jetlag.

Ok.. so.. My adventure in Down Under is now finished.. I really don't have enough words to describe how amazing it has been and I feel so damn blessed to have got the chance to experience all the incerdible things I did. There are some things I'm definitely going to miss... some of them are MANGOES ofcourse ;)... sunshine and the heat, walking around in thongs and shorts... but especially I'm going to miss the people and how open they are.. how easy it has been to make friends and meet new people in general... love it... ofcourse there are also things that I'm not going to miss.. one of them are BUGS! Like spiders.. cockroaches...ants... they're just too big for me - sorry ;D. But after all... I expected to see even more bugs (and all other sorts of weird creatures) than I did... :)

Now it's time to thank you all amazing people who have really made this adventure so special. Special thanks goes to Steve and  Kerry at Three Waters, Grant, Davina and Geoff, Pen and Mac, Scotty and Emilia and Scott's lovely family, and all you great lovely people we met travelling around like us <3 Really without all you guys this trip woudn't even been half as amazing than it was! :) THANK YOU!!!! AAAND last but not least: the most special thanks goes to my aaaaaawesome travel mmmmate M. You really have become like a sister for me - the sister I always wanted but never had. Now I do. Thank yoo, luv! :)

 

 -10C, sunshine and a tired but happy girl

P.S Also biiiig thanks to all my friends and family in Finland who kept me posted while being away. Feels good to know having real friends <3 See ya soon!!!