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[SWE_Karl]

Strine: yes the word i was looking for is Sponsorship or like that anny way. my intentions is wery simmpel .. at least for me
i´m gooing to go down to australia and stay atleast for 3years and make som kinde of repotage, and work like xxxx

so al i can do now is, plan my travel and hope for an good answer frome the ambasy and the swedish goverment.

by the way: happy new year to every one, and thanks for your support.
\\ swe_karl

[Ian]

Hej Karl!
Money? :shock: tack sa meka mate! I don't even remember what that stuff is anymore! :lol:

I'm doing what I'm doing on little to Zero budget. No sponsership, no wage, no clue, no prayer!

Actually I started with under £5000 and am currently looking at the thin side of under £3000. I tried every trick in the book to travel as cheaply as I could, sleeping in my car, camping out in the woods and mountains, getting washed in streams. Finding food from the wilds, you name it. I rarely stayed in a Hostel unless it was a capital city. If I was extremely lucky I was offered a place to stay by the Smiths I met, but I never forced myself on them or even asked. If they enquired where I was staying I was honest. You remember I slept outside the workshop at Volund in my car when it got well below zero? Luckily for me Karl lodges there and at least I got to sit in the warm until around midnight.

You don't need a massive budget to travel Karl, honestly. The biggest expense for me was petrol, for you it will be air fare and such. It's still do-able. I'd think nothing of hitching a ride around if I could find a Smith with a spare fire in Oz. I've got a working holiday visa for a year, which you could apply for too I think. Like Strine says, pack up your kit and up stumps. Oh and as far as me settling in Oz goes strine, I figured a year would be long enough to see if it was worth coming back in the future to stay
G'day Neighbour!
8)

[Strine]

G'day Ian,

I'll give you twenty minutes :wink: The first question asked of people getting off the plane is "So....how do you like Australia" We can be pretty dumb sometimes. A "country" is mostly the people, with some nice scenery and weather thrown in as icing on the cake.

Do you need directions yet? and can you handle a bit of celtic music as well as coal dust in your ears?

[Mr Smith]

Strine has said it all better than I could.

Personally, I'm not sure of actual blacksmithing *jobs*, barring one or two exceptions, but there's no shortage of work for a backpacker on a work visa.

Well, if you're ever down the left hand side of the country, give us a shout!

P.S. if you ever get the chance, take the train from Sydney to Perth, and count the RR spikes, etc lying trackside along the way )there's a few)