Diddillibah, Friday 22nd August, 2008
Friday night we arrived to Karen and Robin’s house in the Diddillibah village. Karen and Robin’s are host of Servas. Bet you never heard of Servas! It is a non profit non political organization of volunteers from all over the world. We heard of it from a brother of a friend of mine It is meant to promote peace and understanding around the world. Practically, when travelling, instead of paying lots of money staying in different accommodations, you can call Servas members and stay a couple of night with them. Sounds strange however members actually do it a lot while traveling and host others as well. A great idea. Feel free to check it :-) http://joomla.servas.org/
We joined the organization just before leaving S’pore. We plan to join it in Israel as well and we’ll be happy to host travelers.
After 2 and a half weeks in OZ we decided to give it a try. Naturally it was embarrassing to call strangers and ask if we can stay at their home. Anyways, we called Karen and Robin. I didn’t choose them particularly but I had to choose hosts who can take a family – quite unusual. Most of them indicate that they are interested in hosting 1 or 2 persons. Karen and Robin were not the first choice but the fifth. All the others on the list before them just didn’t pick up the phone. Probably because it was already too late – 8:30, and the Aussie people are on the way to bed at that time. Not Karen and Robin. Karen hesitated for a couple of minutes before inviting us to stay with them. We arrived on Friday evening, and it turned out to be a great stay. They leave in an awesome village. A perfect place to live in. On one hand it is located in a beautiful place – the scenery is so beautiful and pretty isolated. On the other hand – 20 minutes drive and you are in Noosa head and other urbane places. If you drive an hour and a half you are in Brisbane. Their hospitality was amazing. They are pretty laid back (well, not uncommon to Aussie people, but they are even more). When we arrived they were already drinking their tenth beer. We had a dinner together, all took showers, had a nice chat and went to sleep. Oh, the kids want me to mention the dessert – ice cream with hot custard. First time they encountered custard and were really excited about it. Kids slept in one room and us in another!!! Real rooms, real beds, and the highlight – when we had to pee we didn’t have to go out of the house ;-)
The next morning we went to the market where they work on Saturday and Wednesday. A very famous market in Eumundi. Ido will soon describe what they make living of. Later on we dropped the kids back in their house and Amit and I climbed on Culum mountain. The view was amazing (you can see the photo). I was upset to realize how unfit I am but indeed the mountain was really stip. We left this morning. Of course we invited them to stay with us in Israel (though we couldn’t tell them where we live – we wish we knew…).
That’s my part. Now Ido will add his perspective about these 2 days.
Talia
Ido:
As mom said, we had a very nice 2-3 days at Karen and Robin’s house but they had the cutest dogs ever. There was one male shiatsu called Buddy and a Female called Trudy.
I liked when buddy sat on me, (even though it’s kind of hard to get him off). I’m just gonna add details to what mom said. For starters they had a huge T.V, they had darts, they had one of those blowfish and they made home-made beer. Their job was amazing.
They worked in a puzzle company. They made all these different types of Rubik’s cube, timber puzzles, board games and really fun riddle stuff. They gave us two presents. One was called T blocks. There were four different shapes that you had to make into a T shape and other shapes. The second one I have no idea what it’s called. The last day we stayed was pretty long. Mum lost the keys and we were looking for it like mad! We all had different opinions. Ophir was sure we would find them. Mum thought we wouldn’t find them. Dad thought we’ll find it somewhere idiotic in about ten days. I thought we would find them somewhere idiotic. Shira, well Shira was having a tea party with herself. Now I shall conclude the paragraph with this very short sentence.
…………………… GOODBYE! ;-) ………………
Friday night we arrived to Karen and Robin’s house in the Diddillibah village. Karen and Robin’s are host of Servas. Bet you never heard of Servas! It is a non profit non political organization of volunteers from all over the world. We heard of it from a brother of a friend of mine It is meant to promote peace and understanding around the world. Practically, when travelling, instead of paying lots of money staying in different accommodations, you can call Servas members and stay a couple of night with them. Sounds strange however members actually do it a lot while traveling and host others as well. A great idea. Feel free to check it :-) http://joomla.servas.org/
We joined the organization just before leaving S’pore. We plan to join it in Israel as well and we’ll be happy to host travelers.
After 2 and a half weeks in OZ we decided to give it a try. Naturally it was embarrassing to call strangers and ask if we can stay at their home. Anyways, we called Karen and Robin. I didn’t choose them particularly but I had to choose hosts who can take a family – quite unusual. Most of them indicate that they are interested in hosting 1 or 2 persons. Karen and Robin were not the first choice but the fifth. All the others on the list before them just didn’t pick up the phone. Probably because it was already too late – 8:30, and the Aussie people are on the way to bed at that time. Not Karen and Robin. Karen hesitated for a couple of minutes before inviting us to stay with them. We arrived on Friday evening, and it turned out to be a great stay. They leave in an awesome village. A perfect place to live in. On one hand it is located in a beautiful place – the scenery is so beautiful and pretty isolated. On the other hand – 20 minutes drive and you are in Noosa head and other urbane places. If you drive an hour and a half you are in Brisbane. Their hospitality was amazing. They are pretty laid back (well, not uncommon to Aussie people, but they are even more). When we arrived they were already drinking their tenth beer. We had a dinner together, all took showers, had a nice chat and went to sleep. Oh, the kids want me to mention the dessert – ice cream with hot custard. First time they encountered custard and were really excited about it. Kids slept in one room and us in another!!! Real rooms, real beds, and the highlight – when we had to pee we didn’t have to go out of the house ;-)
The next morning we went to the market where they work on Saturday and Wednesday. A very famous market in Eumundi. Ido will soon describe what they make living of. Later on we dropped the kids back in their house and Amit and I climbed on Culum mountain. The view was amazing (you can see the photo). I was upset to realize how unfit I am but indeed the mountain was really stip. We left this morning. Of course we invited them to stay with us in Israel (though we couldn’t tell them where we live – we wish we knew…).
That’s my part. Now Ido will add his perspective about these 2 days.
Talia
Ido:
As mom said, we had a very nice 2-3 days at Karen and Robin’s house but they had the cutest dogs ever. There was one male shiatsu called Buddy and a Female called Trudy.
I liked when buddy sat on me, (even though it’s kind of hard to get him off). I’m just gonna add details to what mom said. For starters they had a huge T.V, they had darts, they had one of those blowfish and they made home-made beer. Their job was amazing.
They worked in a puzzle company. They made all these different types of Rubik’s cube, timber puzzles, board games and really fun riddle stuff. They gave us two presents. One was called T blocks. There were four different shapes that you had to make into a T shape and other shapes. The second one I have no idea what it’s called. The last day we stayed was pretty long. Mum lost the keys and we were looking for it like mad! We all had different opinions. Ophir was sure we would find them. Mum thought we wouldn’t find them. Dad thought we’ll find it somewhere idiotic in about ten days. I thought we would find them somewhere idiotic. Shira, well Shira was having a tea party with herself. Now I shall conclude the paragraph with this very short sentence.
…………………… GOODBYE! ;-) ………………
2 comments:
hai evry one in Aust.I read it all,
even what ahira wrote. still in your pictuer we can't see your faces. it is wonderfull to read what ido end ophir point of view,
we have been westerday in bait-sha'n with all eran's family very nice show on the excavetions of thd old city they all in hollyday now end whent to day to a zimmer on Golan hights. ADI with Hilel whent home a few minutes ago.
looking for more from you all
all our love.
wating to 18.12.07.
Hello Talia~
the trip seems nice!with nice scenery...
anyway, just dropping by to wish you a happy teachers day! (:
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