Handful Of Throttle

Friday, 7 June 2013

We're Back!

By Sanne

After 6 months in Australia working, we couldn't wait to return to Denmark to get reunited with our bikes and of course to see my family again. Maybe most of all I was looking forward to seeing my little nieces Mia and Lea who I love so frickin' much! Luckily for us the weather was pretty good, which in Denmark basically means no rain but still cold of course... But hey, after spending a hot and humid summer in Darwin a little cool weather is actually quite welcome. We spent almost three weeks there which gave us lots of time to hang out with friends and family. The bikes were fine except for an oil leak on Mark's bike. After a long, cold winter they needed a bit of coaxing to start up but in the end they fired up. Phew! We borrowed a summer house on the west coast for a few days and it gave us a chance to take the bikes out for a proper test run in which they ran fine.
As always it was hard to say goodbye to everyone but we have to hit the road for more adventures! Don't worry, we'll be back :)

At my brother Torben's birthday party

My cute little niece Lea

At the party Mark was very popular with the girls

As you can see!

Our bikes hibernation spot this past winter - was a joy to see them again

And then giving them some TLC in the backyard

Mark and my other cute little niece Mia

Lea

Lots of fun in the playground!

The Queen Fairy and her posse

Someone's excited! Mark giving my friend Louise a ride

My friend Suzan and her little Maja

And me with my friend Mette's little boy Mikkel

At Vesterhavet (North Sea)

Mark on the beach

Moron

Our last day in Denmark was warm and sunny - quite a rarity!

We're not crazy, really!

We're going to miss you all so much!

Friday, 26 April 2013

Road Trip to The Red Centre

By Sanne

We decided to do a little road trip while we were in Darwin. Neither of us had ever been to the Centre of Australia before so we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to do it now, especially since I was turning 30 and had no intentions of spending the day in boring Darwin.
As we didn't want to push our car to do the approx. 5000km round trip, we decided to hire a camper van instead. We chose the cheapest one we could find but in the end they decided to upgrade us to a better and more expensive one for free so that worked out well.

So we embarked on a two-week road trip and we had a great time! Although it was hot, it felt cooler than Darwin because it wasn't humid. The distances out here are great and there's a lot of nothing in between towns but when you get to places like Devil's Marbles and Uluru it's definitely worth the drive. Yes, they are just rocks...but pretty rocks! Although I had seen Uluru depicted many, many times it is still something else to see it with your own eyes. We shared a bottle of wine while watching the sun set on the rock, and it was really nice.

There's something about the dessert...dry, mysterious and vast. I don't think this will be the last time we'll venture in to the out-outback...

Karlu Karlu - Devil's Marbels