FINISHED!!!

Thanks everyone for your support to team up against poverty! 

What an experience! We had a wonderful time on our walk, and nearly a week after the event, we start to feel normal again ;-) and we would do it again! 

Thanks for more than AUD 3.000 that were donated to our team  to help and overcome poverty! It is amazing to walk for a cause. For me this was not the last challenge :-)  Who knows, maybe Walkability will start it's own fundraising walks in Austria?!

A little more about Oxfam Trailwalker:

Oxfam Trailwalker is fast becoming a global phenomenon. In 2014 Oxfam Trailwalker will take place inIndia, New Zealand, Spain, Japan, France, UK, Belgium, Ireland and Hong Kong

Globally, the events have raised more than $140 million for Oxfam’s valuable work in Australia and around the world, with more than 200,000 people taking part and becoming great ambassadors for Oxfam's work.

Do you want to sign up for your personal challenge next time?!

On Saturday was the last official Training Walk for the Oxfam Trailwalker Challenge. As usual provided and perfectly organised by Tara and Ian from Sydney Coast Walks.
Since I don't get much time on my own these days to do some proper training, I made sure to get babysitters so I could do at least the night session. I joined Ian and the other keen walkers at Davidson Park, later in the afternoon. They've all walked over 20 kilometers at that time, so I thought it would be good to bring some fresh spirit to the tired walkers...

But god, these people are all fit, it actually was quite hard to keep up with them... I think they are all training for something big, like a 100k challenge...

Anyway, about half way through our night walk Ian waited for the group right in front of the Austrian Club of Sydney... really, at the actual Oxfam I might just have to have a Schnaps, or some Stiegl beer there instead of painkillers... it will be at the 85 kilometer mark, so I guess there's nothing wrong with getting some fresh "spirit" for the last few k's...

It was a nice walk, and there will be a complete "Sydney Coast Walks too" - Team training walk coming up soon. In fact, on the 10th of August, the day before City to Surf...

Thanks for all the donations so far, we are just short of 2000, maybe some of you wanted to contribute to hit it! Just go on our OXFAM blogspot if you feel like donating :-)  
Thanks.

It looks like life is going to change very soon for my family and me. 
As you might know, I am NOT a native Australian.  Life brought us here seven years ago - and we just enjoyed it so much that we haven't left (apart from a 2 year US adventure) and by now are lucky citizens of this great country. But we are also very much rooted in Austria. 

Hence, this is the reason we now just have to go back home for a while. My husband was offered a good position in Vienna, back home in Austria. As a family we decided that we have to do this move to find out where we belong. Our daughters are now 3 and 5 years old and we want them to feel "Austrian" as well - if we stayed here for another few years, they probably would not understand our attachment to good old Austria. 

Well, one doesn't know until one does it. We will be heading home in September, just a couple of weeks after the OXFAM trailwalker challenge. What it means for my walkability business, I don't know yet. I am definitely keeping the website, as I want to pick up on it once back in Australia. Also, I might just keep on blogging a bit - because I am sure that there is an opportunity for "walkability.at" back at home :-)