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If ever you are still following our blog, or have visited it at all … First we need to apologize that we still have not written a post in English yet. Shame on us, really. But there is so much stuff we see here and then we start writing our blog entries and once you start off in German we don’t have the heart to translate it later (it wouldn’t be for the best of the text either). So, but now we are in Warrumbungle National Park and it just so happened to us that we need to write this very special post just for you guys, even though we are still way back in our blogging history and not yet ready to post about this park at all. And it goes like this:
Yesterday evening we went for a stroll around the campsite to look for koalas just to learn that it is very, very unlikely that you see one. And not because they wouldn’t exist here, but because they are so mindbogglingly hard to spot. Then again, this is another story and will appear in our ordinary post about this park later (and in German, I’m afraid). Yet, as we have been taking our stroll some mean and cheeky bird leaked our closed milk container and left us with no milk for our breakfast. Which was a bad thing, because we had no bread left and were looking forward to have some good porridge, and the prospect of having to cook porridge with no milk didn’t make us very happy. So Rachel took off in the morning (6:15!) to our neighbours in the campground to ask for a small donation (of milk, of course), and finally got lucky. She came back with that really nice lady – yes, she did bring the milk over herself -, Mrs. Hendriksen (Danish ancestors), and had a little chat as you do on campgrounds. When she mentionned being from Queensland I brought out the map and asked her where in QLD she was from, and you will never guess where this lady comes from: Gympie! She was rather surprised we knew the town and when we mentionned the story of Fraser’s advice to avoid Gympie, she didn’t agree. Of course not, she’s living there! But she has a point, besides the fact that Gympie has nothing to offer touristically, it is a very nice place to actually live in exactely because of the lack thereof. Life is much cheaper like that, and the Gold Coast and Brisbane is close enough. We haven’t been there, so we can’t tell. Yet she was a good sport and didn’t feel insulted in any way. Rather, she put it on you being from London that you look at the world this way 🙂
No, there is no such thing as coincidence in this world we thought, and this is how you two got your very own post, and in English, too!

p.s. We cannot be made liable for any typos in this text as the proofreader is on vacation.