Australiana

Walking gives you lots of time for thinking.

Walking overseas gives you lots of time for thinking about home, and getting homesick.

We´ve both been missing home a lot on this trip.

We were thinking of home and wondering where exactly ´home´ is these days (Alice? Tassie? NSW? Elsewhere?) about the time we were walking through Cantabrian hills and spotted some Eucalypts!

Turns out the place is covered in them! There are loads of plantations and some locals really don´t like them (they´re very different to the local vegetation and are just planted then bulldozed ten years later).

It was very exciting to see and smell them. And we´ve also found lots of wattle and even a couple of bottlebrushes.

Everyone we meet assumes we are English or German, or French if they hear Stef´s spanish.

When we tell them we´re Australian the standard response is raised eyebrows, big smile, and something along the lines of ´oh wow that is really far away!´ in spanish.

Then they say ´Antipodes!´ and laugh as they mime digging or drilling through the world to the other side.

Is Australia directly opposite Spain on the globe? Is this something all Spanish children are taught in school?

Whatever it is, it´s very funny.