A few days ago Jochen, Miri and Paula arrived in Blackheath. Hey had flewn into Sydney on April 24th and spend a couple days in Sydney in search for a van as well. After final success they are proud owners of a Kia Pregio, 2004, 270000km with was a little cheaper then ours but in need for a garage repair as well. It also has a nice camping setup and is a little longer than ours. But our car has the better electical setup with LEDs, sparebattery and the solarpanel. 🙂
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| Jochen and Miriam next to our vans. |
It is running great now, after the broken Gas Converter beeing replaced last week and Jochen Van has an appointment in our garage for next week. They need to replace some clutch or transmission cylinder. Besides that their car seems to run great as well!
It’s a nice situation for Paula and Finja, as they then play together. They are really good in making chaos everywhere, as there most favorite hobby is to work through the kitchen and remove every pan and every pack of cereals to another, random place. While rockclimbing they sometimes are distracted by each other, so all four of us can climb at the same time, while is a big improvement. But usually it’s one person climbing, one person belaying, one person babysitting and one person doing nothing or taking pictures.
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| Welcome Party |
Katinka managed to tick one of her projects as she sent „Tricks Roughly“, 26 a few days ago. I myselfe climbed up all the way to the last move of „August 1914“, 29 three times now, but couldn’t finish it. I always get pulled down by gravity and my cold and numb fingertips, so i stopped trying it now. Better climb more and easier things at first and then return in better shape and send the project with a free mind but later.
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| Axel in „August 1914“, 29 – Centenial Glen, Main Wall |
Jochen is complaining about loosing all his strength while eating to much and moving to less on their Newzealand Roadtrip. But he is regaining strength fast and making good progress in his old project „Alpha Leather“, 32 which he couldn’t finish on his last trip to the Blue Mountains seven years ago.
Now we are looking forward for some cold next days. If it will be to cold, we might just leave the mountains and head back to Sydney. The weather there is usually 8-10ºC warmer. But as you want cold conditions for bouldering this might indicate to warm conditions for this type of climbing again …
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| Jochen in „Ruddy Norry“, 22 – Centenial Glen, Main Wall |
But we’ll see. We might just give it a try, do some Sightseeing and meet up with our german friends Manu and Marie. They are flying in on Monday, they are going to buy an other van and they are going to join our trip though Australia!