A ten hour bus ride and one night spent in cairns later, I'm sitting in one of Wicked Travels shops, contemplating my next step. I'll try to keep this short today and write some things I'm thinking about and a couple things we've learned on our trip.
First of we now have a new mantra. "Take what you can, give nothing back". You who are well traversed in the movie industry may recognize this as a quote from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. If so then ARGH, good on you matey. If not go educate yourself you uncultured swine.
Henrik is an expert in the arts of this our new life saying, but I sometimes have a hard time living by it. For example, we got not one, not two, but three free pizzas in Airlie beach, just by going with people who had been on other ships than our own. We now pillage the "free"-section of the hostels food store and take all that we can in hopes that we're going to need it. We also try to mooch on everything that is free (like the pizza) as often as we can. As I said earlier, I have a hard time with this but I think I'm getting the hang of it, and besides, we're not actually stealing stuff, just maybe overstepping some boundaries for free stuff. Right? Yeah...
We've meet up with a few people here in Cairns and today or tomorrow we are having a kind of reunion for the people that traveled to Fraser together.
The city isn't huge, but it is big enough to have all the nice things like Woolworths (which is like one of the cheapest food stores in Australia) and a lot of other different shops, tattoo studios and the likes. I'm actually considering maybe stepping in to those shops and ask if they want an apprentice. Could work since I have my sketchbook with me. If you don't ask you'll never know right? A good plan would be to work for accommodation in one of the hostels here and then work pro bono at a tattoo studio until I am good enough to apply for a job there.
Other things I've learned during the trip is that Australia has cheap Tuesdays, which is really handy if you want a pizza for example (which is about $ 10 on an average day but $ 5 on a Tuesday). Maybe uninteresting for you guys at home in Sweden, but you never know who's reading these kind of things, right?
The hostel we are staying in at the moment costs us about $ 18/night. It sort of looks like a prison or an insane asylum, transformed into a hostel, which isn't really nice. We are only staying there for four days though, and then we'll find something better. I hope. One GREAT thing with the hostel though, is that they have vouchers for food. You get a voucher, go to a pub in the vicinity, order a (really fucking nice) meal, and get a free drink, for $ 6.50. Awesome.
This is it for now I think. I'll try to update tomorrow again but I won't make any promises I can't keep!
Cya soonish.
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