So long Asia…g’day Australia.
Ever since I read Bill Bryson’s In A Sunburnt Country, I’ve formed a funny opinion about Australia. With the world’s deadliest snakes, jellyfish, sharks, riptides and spiders – it seems to be the only country on earth where the land itself is actively trying to kill you from the moment you set foot here!
That said, the people more than make up for it.
I am just as happy to leave Asia behind us, although I still deeply miss Japan (ah ,so many peaceful memories!), and I will always love Hong Kong (three cheers for Hong Kong Disney!) there is something about Asia that I find…a little bit stressful. Not sure exactly why that is, perhaps I am a little to prone to let my distaste for mainland china influence my overall opinion – hopefully I will get over that as time continues to go on.
But I am looking forward to our stay in Australia. I do love it here, even when I only get to see parts of it from the ship’s promenade deck (all hail IPM). And soon enough we will be in New Zealand and that is always worth waiting for…I still think that if I could live anywhere in the world that wasn’t Canada, New Zealand would come very close to topping the list.
What’s hard to believe is that I’m almost certain we’re now past the half-way mark, we now have less time left on this particular adventure than we have already passed.
I often wish it wasn’t the hard contracts that move at a slog and the great ones that move like a roller-coaster…washing the time away on the wake behind us.