Author Archives: Jone

The marathon like situation of lockdown in Melbourne has now been going for 12 weeks and out of those 8 weeks has been under with the nightly curfew and 5km allowed movement range from home. Two weeks ago, were the first slight easings of the restrictions when the allowed outdoor time was doubled to twoContinue reading “Light at the end of the long tunnel”

In the last six weeks since my previous post I haven’t had any rush to plan my next trips outside of Melbourne. Well during the last two weeks I haven’t had the need to plan trips even over 5 kilometres outside of my home. Melbourne has been in stage 4 restrictions and we have stillContinue reading “Riding the second wave”

Another seven weeks has passed since my last post. I think the reason is obvious: nothing really has happened. Still working remotely and going for runs and bike rides. I guess I’m now first-time doing winter biking as the winter weather is not so unfriendly for biking compared to Finland. But hey I once sawContinue reading “Road trip is out there”

Hello again from self-isolation residence at down under. It is about a month since last post since the current situation does not initiate a lot of interesting events or sightseeing. Before all this started, I was planning that the Easter weekend would be a great first opportunity for me to go and see some newContinue reading “Winter is coming”

When I decided to start this adventure, I couldn’t imagine what the first months would bring. The first month was full of excitement checking out the new home city while the corona was mostly rampaging China. It felt so far away as probably for so many others all over the world. The situation has changedContinue reading “Day to day life in the current situation”

Now that I had an empty apartment to myself, first step was to get some basic furniture there. It’s very common here to use Facebook Marketplace for getting second-hand furniture and appliances. There is also a local version of Tori.fi (Finnish marketplace site) here called Gumtree. I browsed both sites even before getting the apartmentContinue reading “The moving (Part 2)”

As you might have guessed, I found myself an apartment, but the stress wasn’t over when I got the call that my application was selected. More on that later. The application for the partly furnished apartment I mentioned wasn’t the one. I never heard back from them but based on the inspection of course IContinue reading “The moving (part 1)”

Couple days ago, came the day I knew was coming eventually. I ran out of the Finnish rye bread I brought with me. It was only one package of Ohut Herkku but it tasted good since I knew it might be a while before I get a the next decent rye bread. I have readContinue reading “Getting to know the city and trying to find an apartment”

Almost a week has passed since I made the long journey to the other side of the globe. The flight went relatively fine considering the length of it. Of course, I didn’t sleep much as usual during flights, but the 9 hours’ time difference took its toll anyway. The knee was ok as I triedContinue reading “Jone has landed and trying to cope with jetlag in the big city”