Merry Christmas!

Byron Bay is one of the very most attractive places on Australia’s east coast to spend your Christmas holidays in. For the same reason most of the hostels and camping sites are booked in advance, and Kirstine and I had to look for a place (to a reasonable price) outside the city. Apparently the local rugby team doesn’t use their field during the break and it is therefore used to camping. And old semi-crazy but very friendly man John is looking out for the place and we persuaded him to give us a discount. Since the place was almost empty and he grew so fond of us, he ended up treating us with pizza and champagne!

Funny how things turn out =)

Later that night a mate of John showed up, and it turned out that they play in a band. Their gear was set up, so I gave them a hand playing drums. Awesome!

On the 24th of December we met up with Camilla (our Danish friend, who also studied in Melbourne) some of her Danish friends + a bunch of Swedish people. We tried to make a traditional Scandinavian x-mas dinner as possible, this included browned potatoes, roedkaal but kangaroo steak! Before we went out to hit the closest club we played a present game with dice. Very hyggeligt!

I finally found the best way to spend the 25th of December: surfing! Never tried it before, but we had a lot of fun! The twins & Camilla rocked, they took same lessons prior and rented the boards.

John has a brother that owns horses and he let us go for a ride in the beautiful country before we left Byron Bay. Kirstine grew up riding so she’s very talented and tried to teach me a bit as well.

A great time at Byron bay! After that we moved on heading towards Coffs Harbour.