Its big!
OK, I did have a real reason to go back to Melbourne, in fact I had two,
1) It'll meant that if I get back to Perth I'll of done a complete lap of the country (before I'd missed about 700km between the 12 Apostles and Melbourne)
and more importantly
2) I got to see the worlds biggest rocking horse and Larry the Big Lobster, two classics from Australia's "Big Things" tour and my god they were big!
OK, so I did Adelaide, I have to say not the most remarkable of cities though it does a great floater (beef pie in pea soup) and accidentally wandering around the University administration offices was a laugh!
The road trip back to Melbourne went surprisingly well, the lads had told me they had kitted the car (a 1986 toyota Corona) out with the essentials, "comedy hats, aviator sunglasses, furry dice and an inflatable Kangaroo", all vital for an outback road trip apparently.... Unfortunately they didn't have a battery that worked so we had the fun of jump starting Billy Woo (they named the car after our infamous balcony leaping landlord from Sydney) every time we turned the ignition off but made it safe and well back to Australia's second city.
So Melbourne... great city though to be honest I'm guessing a little on that one as I only engaged in the highly cultural parts of the place, namely...
AFL at the MCG or Australian Rules to you and me. It was the Melbourne derby of Hawthorne (2nd bottom) vs Melbourne (2nd top) and in a mighty battle of catch and against all the ods The Hawks pulled off a famous 128-89 win. Now if you remember the channel 4 coverage from back in the day the game makes a little if any sense but watching it live helps a little. However and very importantly, just like on TV its just one long fight. The first brawl broke out before kick-off but thankfully it didn't delay the game, with 18 on each team 6 fighting didn't stop the initial bounce off. Happy days!
Then there was the casino, the biggest in Australia and possible the worse in the world! Thankfully I had no money at the time so for once didn't loose anything but, for a place that takes in a stupidly high percentage of the tax for the state of Victoria they really could've done a little more!
Then the highlight of my trip so far, well sort of. Neighbours - class, what more needs to be said! After visiting the street on a tour, then trying to follow the 2nd tour of the day in Billy Woo to do it again for free, failing miserably and getting lost I found myself in one of Australia's worst pubs where I met, wait for it... Ryan Malone (Toadie, pretty good right), Alan Fletcher (Dr Karl Kennedy, the legend!) and best of all, Stephan Dennis (aka Paul Robinson, need I say anything more).
Other than that not a lots happened. I've bought myself a cut throat razor, as yet I'm no pro but am still alive so doing ok. I'm back in Adelaide and looking for a lift to Perth and at 12.01 tonight/ tomorrow morning I'll be watching Star Wars III. I'll be one of the first people to see it on global release being almost as far east as you can go before coming west again so there is a good reason I'm on the other side of the world after all!
And that's it so it just leaves me time to say be good and good bye,
Until the next time
Jonathan
Cannon St. Backpackers
Adelaide
South Australia
1) It'll meant that if I get back to Perth I'll of done a complete lap of the country (before I'd missed about 700km between the 12 Apostles and Melbourne)
and more importantly
2) I got to see the worlds biggest rocking horse and Larry the Big Lobster, two classics from Australia's "Big Things" tour and my god they were big!
OK, so I did Adelaide, I have to say not the most remarkable of cities though it does a great floater (beef pie in pea soup) and accidentally wandering around the University administration offices was a laugh!
The road trip back to Melbourne went surprisingly well, the lads had told me they had kitted the car (a 1986 toyota Corona) out with the essentials, "comedy hats, aviator sunglasses, furry dice and an inflatable Kangaroo", all vital for an outback road trip apparently.... Unfortunately they didn't have a battery that worked so we had the fun of jump starting Billy Woo (they named the car after our infamous balcony leaping landlord from Sydney) every time we turned the ignition off but made it safe and well back to Australia's second city.
So Melbourne... great city though to be honest I'm guessing a little on that one as I only engaged in the highly cultural parts of the place, namely...
AFL at the MCG or Australian Rules to you and me. It was the Melbourne derby of Hawthorne (2nd bottom) vs Melbourne (2nd top) and in a mighty battle of catch and against all the ods The Hawks pulled off a famous 128-89 win. Now if you remember the channel 4 coverage from back in the day the game makes a little if any sense but watching it live helps a little. However and very importantly, just like on TV its just one long fight. The first brawl broke out before kick-off but thankfully it didn't delay the game, with 18 on each team 6 fighting didn't stop the initial bounce off. Happy days!
Then there was the casino, the biggest in Australia and possible the worse in the world! Thankfully I had no money at the time so for once didn't loose anything but, for a place that takes in a stupidly high percentage of the tax for the state of Victoria they really could've done a little more!
Then the highlight of my trip so far, well sort of. Neighbours - class, what more needs to be said! After visiting the street on a tour, then trying to follow the 2nd tour of the day in Billy Woo to do it again for free, failing miserably and getting lost I found myself in one of Australia's worst pubs where I met, wait for it... Ryan Malone (Toadie, pretty good right), Alan Fletcher (Dr Karl Kennedy, the legend!) and best of all, Stephan Dennis (aka Paul Robinson, need I say anything more).
Other than that not a lots happened. I've bought myself a cut throat razor, as yet I'm no pro but am still alive so doing ok. I'm back in Adelaide and looking for a lift to Perth and at 12.01 tonight/ tomorrow morning I'll be watching Star Wars III. I'll be one of the first people to see it on global release being almost as far east as you can go before coming west again so there is a good reason I'm on the other side of the world after all!
And that's it so it just leaves me time to say be good and good bye,
Until the next time
Jonathan
Cannon St. Backpackers
Adelaide
South Australia
posted by JP at 6:56 am
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