Category Archives: @Melbourne

As with all good things, also my adventures down under are coming to an end. After my vacation, I had a little less than two weeks left for relatively normal living in my apartment. I had figured that like at the start of my journey, I would also now book an Airbnb place for theContinue reading “The end of the journey”

It’s now about 18 months since I have had an annual leave from work. Surely I had a few long weekends during last year but there wasn’t a good time to take a vacation down under as it consisted quite much of restrictions and lockdowns. Now that I’m in my last months here and theContinue reading “On the eve of the summer vacation”

Back in Helsinki whenever December has been black (as in without snow), it has been difficult to get the Christmas feeling started. Of course, one part of that is, that I don’t have any Christmas decorations in my apartment. It changes when I travel to my close relatives where I usually spend my Christmas holidays.Continue reading “The odd combination of summer and Christmas”

The title refers more on the long lockdown rather than the actual season. The winter as a season here has felt more like a long late autumn in Finland. The lockdown finally ended last Wednesday after 111 days in stage 4 restrictions. The four reasons to leave home was removed and retail could open again,Continue reading “Long dark winter is finally ending”

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)”