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Last Saturday, the alarm wasn’t needed—at 2:48 a.m. I was already wide awake, fueled by pre-race adrenaline as always. A few cappuccinos and some light reading later, I got to work loosening up my muscles with some stretching and the foam roller, mentally preparing for what would be my second ultra trail marathon.

Yesterday, my wife and I made a trip to Tweed Heads because I needed my international driver´s license to be converted to a NSW license. Their office is located in the Tweed Mall Shopping Centre, and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by the friendliness of all the team at Service NSW.

During my last trip to Grafton, I had a chat with a local. He was asking me about my whereabouts. I told him that I just came from Armidale and had a stopover in Dorrigo (Bellingen Shire), cycled to Nymboida and was on my way back to Ocean Shores (Byron Shire). On my bicycle. He […]

When I first arrived in Australia, I would have never imaged to live “down under” one day. Having grown up around Munich, Bavaria, my life was pretty “limited” as a young boy. Just after the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000, my father had brought back a didgeridoo and two boomerangs from his trip to Australia. […]